Author: Vidya Saras

In this tutorial, we lean hard on Together AI’s growing ecosystem to show how quickly we can turn unstructured text into a question-answering service that cites its sources. We’ll scrape a handful of live web pages, slice them into coherent chunks, and feed those chunks to the togethercomputer/m2-bert-80M-8k-retrieval embedding model. Those vectors land in a FAISS index for millisecond similarity search, after which a lightweight ChatTogether model drafts answers that stay grounded in the retrieved passages. Because Together AI handles embeddings and chat behind a single API key, we avoid juggling multiple providers, quotas, or SDK dialects. !pip -q install…

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 70 vulnerabilities in Windows and related products, including five zero-day flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Adding to the sense of urgency with this month’s patch batch from Redmond are fixes for two other weaknesses that now have public proof-of-concept exploits available. Microsoft and several security firms have disclosed that attackers are exploiting a pair of bugs in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver that allow attackers to elevate their privileges on a vulnerable device. The Windows CLFS is a critical Windows component responsible for logging services, and…

General Hospital sees the big reveal of Giovanni “Gio” Palmieri (Giovanni Mazza) as the mystery son of Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton) and Dante Falconeri (Dominic Zamprogna) soon. But who is it that drops the bombshell that blows up lives? We’re going to see who reveals the truth about Gio to his biological parents and the fallout from that explosion. As of this week, we’ve got even more people searching for Brook Lynn and Dante’s son, and the truth is just about to come out. I mean, heck, one person’s already guessed it, but just needs proof. Lulu Suspects Gio…

By Luisa Maria Jacinta C. Jocson, Senior Reporter MILAN, Italy — The government is open to adopting a seasonal tariff scheme for rice imports to better protect farmers.    “Yes, we will need to study it. I would say if there are no operational or even legal impediments to it, I would favor it. Because that way, we can stabilize farmers’ incomes and prices that farmers receive,” Department of Economy, Planning, and Development Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan told BusinessWorld on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting here last week. This comes after the Federation of Free Farmers…

A Colorado-incorporated firm has been linked to a Chinese illicit marketplace that has served scammers in Southeast Asia and has been used to channel billions of dollars worth of crypto.The marketplace, called Xinbi Guarantee, has received $8.4 billion, primarily in Tether (USDT) stablecoin transactions to date, blockchain security firm Elliptic reported on May 13. Merchants on the Chinese-language, Telegram-based illicit marketplace sell technology, personal data, and money laundering services to Southeast Asian scammers who target victims using pig butchering scams. On its website, Xinbi describes itself as an “investment and capital guarantee group company” and claims to operate through Xinbi Co. Ltd,…

To the users and the builders, We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Ethereum’s future is bright, and this year we are seeing much of that future come to life as the Ethereum ecosystem builds on a foundation laid by dedicated research and development over the last years. This update will focus on how the Ethereum Foundation aims to help further Ethereum’s progress, on what we’ve been working on in terms of allocations and more, and on why our outlook is brighter now more than ever. Who we are, and where we’ve been The focus of the Ethereum…

Getty ImagesThere’s complex etiquette and a rich history behind the French film festival’s red-carpet ban of “naked” or “voluminous” dressing. We decipher the “decency” dress code of the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.That most rigid of red carpets just got a little bit more rigid – on Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival announced that: “for decency reasons, nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as in any other area of the festival.”  It feels striking because naked dresses have become such a red-carpet staple in recent years, including at Cannes. Last year, for instance, the supermodel Bella Hadid wore…

Ever since Bitcoin first emerged, Web3 has been a breeding ground of innovation, creativity and financial independence. However, it’s also seen its share of rogues, scammers and bad actors. One man has made it his mission to investigate these bad apples and bring them to justice. That person is ZachXBT.Dedicating himself time to the task of probing on-chain fraud, ZachXBT has played a major role in uncovering some of the biggest scams, frauds and thefts in blockchain history. Whether relating to crypto, NFTs or digital collectibles, he has helped to shine a light on the more unsavoury elements of the…

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Google I/O is on May 20, but the annual developer conference will be so jam-packed with announcements that Google is opening the valve to release some news early. Today, during a virtual event dubbed The Android Show, the company showed off several features coming to the Android 16, starting with a fresh redesign.Here’s everything new coming to Google’s mobile operating system. Some of these features will arrive first on Pixel phones later this summer—presumably Google’s Pixel 10 series—but most will be a part of the big annual Android update, which is expected to arrive earlier than usual this year, in…