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The Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 Academic Grants Round! This round, we are proud to support 41 projects from researchers and institutions worldwide. These projects address fundamental challenges and opportunities in areas critical to Ethereum’s growth, including cryptography, consensus mechanisms, security, execution,…

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FourKites today announced the next evolution in supply chain technology with the launch of Intelligent Control Tower™. The result of years of deep innovation alongside customers, the FourKites® Intelligent Control Tower™ is a radical departure from the backward-looking planning and reporting control towers that previously defined the market. Powered by a new digital workforce of AI agents, Intelligent Control Tower™ can take autonomous action across complex supply chain workflows, in addition to surfacing insights, assessing risk, and making prescriptive recommendations. “Today, we’re taking the next step in FourKites’ evolution by moving the industry from seeing data to automating actions…

XPUNKS creators have officially revealed the first official trailer for their upcoming post-apocalyptic extraction shooter Eden: Discovery.Alongside the trailer, the team announced the game’s integration with the Solana blockchain and a partnership with GameShift by Solana Labs. These moves aim to enhance the game’s in-game economy, tournament systems, and accessibility for a broad range of players.Eden: Discovery is set to offer both blockchain-integrated and traditional gaming options, catering to diverse preferences within the gaming community. The announcement also revealed plans for a public Alpha release by the end of Q1, providing early access to the core gameplay features. Source: EDENWhat…

Gemini [archival audio]: Key body-weight exercises, squats, stand with feet shoulder-width apart, lower your hips as if sitting in a chair, keeping your back straight and chest up. Go as low as you can comfortably.Michael Calore: Lunges for each leg, three sets of 10, plank, three sets holding for 30 to 60 seconds, which is torture. Glute bridges, three sets of 15 reps. And then it talks about progressive overload and it talks about rest days and all of those things, which is great. And then I was like, “OK, I do not know how to do a lunge. Can…

Politics / January 17, 2025 The country is about to be handed over to a band of fascists, and top Democrats are simply rolling over and waiting for the Republicans to tickle their tummies. Ad Policy Donald Trump souvenirs are displayed for sale at I Love DC Gifts ahead of the inauguration on January 16, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images) On Wednesday, Joe Biden gave a farewell address to the nation. If you missed it, you’re not alone. Biden has been drifting off into the history books with startling rapidity, his presidency already reduced to a…

Modern image and video generation methods rely heavily on tokenization to encode high-dimensional data into compact latent representations. While advancements in scaling generator models have been substantial, tokenizers—primarily based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs)—have received comparatively less attention. This raises questions about how scaling tokenizers might improve reconstruction accuracy and generative tasks. Challenges include architectural limitations and constrained datasets, which affect scalability and broader applicability. There is also a need to understand how design choices in auto-encoders influence performance metrics such as fidelity, compression, and generation. Researchers from Meta and UT Austin have addressed these issues by introducing ViTok, a…

At its core, they said, “AI red teaming strives to push beyond model-level safety benchmarks by emulating real-world attacks against end-to-end systems. However, there are many open questions about how red teaming operations should be conducted and a healthy dose of skepticism about the efficacy of current AI red teaming efforts.” The paper noted that, when it was formed in 2018, the Microsoft AI Red Team (AIRT) focused primarily on identifying traditional security vulnerabilities and evasion attacks against classical ML models. “Since then,” it said, “both the scope and scale of AI red teaming at Microsoft have expanded significantly in…

Earlier this week, WWE and TNA announced a “multi-year partnership aimed at creating unprecedented crossover opportunities within WWE and TNA programming for NXT Superstars and TNA Wrestling Stars.” Between Jordynne Grace in the Royal Rumble, Joe Hendry on NXT, and Sol Ruca on TNA, the announcement isn’t exactly a surprise, but still an exciting development that gives fans of both WWE and TNA the chance to get to know a whole new roster. Though the possibilities are endless, here are 5 matches that could come out of the new WWE/TNA partnership. Tatum Paxley vs Killer Kelly  WWE / TNA NXT’s…

Britain has recorded its highest number of company closures for two decades, with the final quarter of 2024 seeing 198,046 businesses struck off the official register. The figure, revealed by research firm Beauhurst, surpasses levels last reached in 2021 and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Henry Whorwood, managing director of research and consultancy at Beauhurst, said the increase in business dissolutions is largely a consequence of last year’s budget measures, combined with a difficult financing climate. “We really need to make sure this doesn’t get worse,” he added. Separately, data from Zempler Bank, a small-business lender, points…

Meet Samuel Edyme, Nickname – HIM-buktu. A web3 content writer, journalist, and aspiring trader, Edyme is as versatile as they come. With a knack for words and a nose for trends, he has penned pieces for numerous industry player, including AMBCrypto, Blockchain.News, and Blockchain Reporter, among others. Edyme’s foray into the crypto universe is nothing short of cinematic. His journey began not with a triumphant investment, but with a scam. Yes, a Ponzi scheme that used crypto as payment roped him in. Rather than retreating, he emerged wiser and more determined, channeling his experience into over three years of insightful…