Author: Vidya Saras

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fired off two dozen requests Wednesday morning pressing federal agency leaders for information about plans to install AI software throughout federal agencies amid the ongoing cuts to the government’s workforce.The barrage of inquiries follow recent reporting by WIRED and The Washington Post concerning efforts by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to automate tasks with a variety of proprietary AI tools and access sensitive data.“The American people entrust the federal government with sensitive personal information related to their health, finances, and other biographical information on the basis that this information will not…

Donald Trump’s cruel and chaotic second term is just getting started. In his first month back in office, Trump and his lackey Elon Musk (or is it the other way around?) have proven that nothing is safe from sacrifice at the altar of unchecked power and riches. Only robust independent journalism can cut through the noise and offer clear-eyed reporting and analysis based on principle and conscience. That’s what The Nation has done for 160 years and that’s what we’re doing now. Our independent journalism doesn’t allow injustice to go unnoticed or unchallenged—nor will we abandon hope for a better…

Robots have come a long way since the Roomba. Today, drones are starting to deliver door to door, self-driving cars are navigating some roads, robo-dogs are aiding first responders, and still more bots are doing backflips and helping out on the factory floor. Still, Luca Carlone thinks the best is yet to come.Carlone, who recently received tenure as an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro), directs the SPARK Lab, where he and his students are bridging a key gap between humans and robots: perception. The group does theoretical and experimental research, all toward expanding a robot’s…

The affected versions include Apache Tomcat: 11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.2,10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.34, and 9.0.0 M1 to 9.0.98. Respective fixed versions include 11.0.3 or later, 10.1.35 or later, and 9.0.99 or later. Wallarm detected the first attack coming from Poland on March 12, a few days before the first public exploit was released on GitHub. “While this exploit abuses session storage, the bigger issue is partial PUT handling in Tomcat, which allows uploading practically any file anywhere,” Wallarm said in the blog. “Attackers will soon start shifting their tactics, uploading malicious JSP files, modifying configurations, and planting backdoors outside session storage.”

Covenant : a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement.  This word has become one of the most charged words in the Bitcoin space. They’re the best thing since sliced bread. They’re the most dangerous thing since the atom bomb. They aren’t really going to do anything to scale Bitcoin, but they’re neat.  Everyone has a completely different attitude towards them. We have the pro-faction, the anti-faction, the ambivalent faction. To make matters worse, covenant is frankly a very vague term in its description of mature and concrete proposals to the protocol that would be classified as covenants.  The degrees of…

HBO “Seinfeld” is arguably the greatest sitcom to ever air on network television, so it would follow that its core-four ensemble ranks as one of the most brilliant casts in the history of the form. Over its nine seasons, the “show about nothing” made us howl over such mundane experiences as waiting for a table at a Chinese restaurant, trying to find your car in a parking garage, and ordering soup. It’s impossible to conceive of a better version of “Seinfeld,” but fans of the series have likely wondered every…

The UK’s economic growth forecast has been downgraded by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which has urged global leaders to de-escalate rising trade tensions. According to the OECD’s latest projections, the UK’s GDP growth is expected to reach 1.4 per cent this year—0.3 percentage points lower than previously forecast—while 2026 growth has been revised down to 1.2 per cent. Inflation expectations remain unchanged at 2.7 per cent for this year and 2.3 per cent in 2026. Despite the downgrade, Britain is set to be the second-fastest growing economy in the G7, behind only the United States. However,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A crypto analyst has revealed that the recent pullback in the Bitcoin (BTC) price has triggered a Fischer Transform indicator reminiscent of the 2022 bear market. Despite its poor performance over the past weeks, the analyst further predicts that BTC could see maximum pain ahead, indicating a significant downturn that could continue for the next four months.   Bitcoin Fischer Transform Signal Past Bear Market Levels X (formerly Twitter) crypto analyst Tony Severino has shared a technical analysis highlighting a weekly Bitcoin Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) chart with…

Getty ImagesStylish and experimental, Breathless heralded a new era of film-making when it was released 65 years ago. In 1964, its director told the BBC why he broke every rule he could.Jean-Luc Godard was crystal clear about what he planned to do with his feature-length film debut, Breathless (À bout de souffle), which was released 65 years ago this month. He wanted to blow up the whole idea of what cinema was. In 1964, the director told the BBC’s Olivier Todd: “It was a film which took everything the cinema had done – girls, gangsters, cars – exploded all this…

This month, we’ve got the latest on from two groups doing great work to grow the Ethereum ecosystem! Couger for education and community building in Japan Specializing in AI, Couger might seem like an unlikely champion of Ethereum education! However, Couger has not only explored the intersection of Ethereum and AI and piloted a zero knowledge voting protocol – they’ve also become avid educators and collaborators in their native Japan. Couger received a sponsorship in 2020 for their ETHTerakoya meetups as well as a series of workshops and working groups. Couger was recently awarded a second grant to continue and…