Author: Vidya Saras

Sydney Thunder skipper David Warner has been the shining light for his team in the ongoing match against Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League (BBL) 2024-25. The match between the two teams is taking place at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart on Friday (10th January). David Warner, who opened the innings has given a solid start to his his team in the ongoing match. The premier batter has carried his good form in the ongoing Big Bash League, making sure that he sets a huge platform for his team to post a big total. After Sydney Thunder lost two…

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Donald Trump has said that a meeting is being arranged between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The US president-elect gave no timeline for when the meeting might take place.”He wants to meet and we are setting it up,” he said in remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Russian news agency Tass quotes Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying that the US has not yet formally requested a meeting.Trump has promised to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine soon after he takes office on 20 January and has expressed scepticism about US military and financial support for Kyiv.”President…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.UK government borrowing costs edged higher on Friday but remained below Thursday’s peak as investors await a key US jobs report later in the day.The 10-year gilt yield rose by 0.03 percentage points to 4.84 per cent but was still below the 4.93 per cent level touched on Thursday, which was the highest since 2008. Yields move inversely to prices.Sterling edged lower against the dollar, falling 0.2 per cent to $1.229.Gilts have suffered in recent sessions amid a global rise in government…

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The Merge is happening soon! This post explains how and when the upgrade will happen, along with the client versions compatible with it.Kiln, an Ethereum merge testnet launched in early 2022, will be shut down during the week of September 12, 2022.Ropsten and Rinkeby are also deprecated and scheduled to be sunset in Q4 2022 and Q3 2023 respectively.Users and developers should migrate to Goerli & Sepolia, which will keep being maintained and upgraded to reflect changes to the Ethereum mainnet for the forseable future. As previously announced, the Kiln, Ropsten and Rinkeby testnets are now deprecated and will be…

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LAS VEGAS & FRANKFURT, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–KION GROUP AG, the Supply Chain Solutions Company, is working with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to optimize supply chains using NVIDIA’s advanced AI and simulation technologies. “Future warehouses will function like massive autonomous robots, orchestrating fleets of robots within them” Post this At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the three companies are showcasing1 how clients can both define ideal set-ups for new warehouses and continuously enhance existing facilities with Mega, an NVIDIA Omniverse blueprint for large-scale industrial digital twins. This includes a digital twin powered by physical AI—AI models that embody principles and qualities…

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“Meta has treated the so-called ‘public availability’ of shadow datasets as a get-out-of-jail-free card, notwithstanding that internal Meta records show every relevant decision-maker at Meta, up to and including its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, knew LibGen was ‘a dataset we know to be pirated,’” the plaintiffs allege in this motion. (Originally filed in late 2024, the motion is a request to file a third amended complaint.)In addition to the plaintiffs’ briefs, another filing was unredacted in response to Chhabria’s order—Meta’s opposition to the motion to file an amended complaint. It argues that the authors’ attempts to add additional claims to the…

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Like, download Watch Duty and get results there. Otherwise, have at it, man. Have at it on the internet and hope it makes you feel better. I feel bad for them, honestly, you know? I’ve been through this before. But the way that I coped is by building Watch Duty, not by yelling into the ether. We all have our coping mechanisms. Some are productive and some are not.Screenshot: Courtesy of Watch DutyDo you think people being able to get more information about what’s happening on the ground will help them be smarter about what they’re saying online? Or is…

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Environment / January 9, 2025 Racist, stupid crap—that’s not unexpected. What we need is a tough local and national Democratic response. To everything. Ad Policy President-elect Donald Trump speaks to the media before going to view the wildfire damage in the Los Angeles area.(Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images) Copresidents-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk wasted no time racing to the political bottom in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles fires Wednesday, which have so far killed at least five people, injured many more, and destroyed thousands of structures—many if not most of them homes. No surprise there.…

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Multilingual applications and cross-lingual tasks are central to natural language processing (NLP) today, making robust embedding models essential. These models underpin systems like retrieval-augmented generation and other AI-driven solutions. However, existing models often struggle with noisy training data, limited domain diversity, and inefficiencies in managing multilingual datasets. These limitations affect performance and scalability. Researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) have addressed these challenges with KaLM-Embedding, a model that emphasizes data quality and innovative training methodologies. KaLM-Embedding is a multilingual embedding model built on Qwen 2-0.5B and released under the MIT license. Designed with compactness and efficiency in mind,…

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