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Amazon continues to offer an unbeatable deal on the Samsung T9 4TB SSD and extends the exceptional Prime Day pricing to all shoppers, not just Prime members. This high-performance storage device originally priced at $549 is available for just $299 which is a substantial 45% discount. See at Amazon Speed up to 2,000MB/s Samsung has long been recognized as a leader in SSD technology and the latest T9 model exemplifies why it’s considered the best in the industry. This cutting-edge SSD is engineered to meet the diverse needs of content creators, gaming enthusiasts, academics and professionals. Its standout feature is…

If you’re using a personal Adobe account, it’s easy to opt out of the content analysis. Open up Adobe’s privacy page, scroll down to the Content analysis for product improvement section, and click the toggle off. If you have a business or school account, you are automatically opted out.Amazon: AWSAI services from Amazon Web Services, like Amazon Rekognition or Amazon CodeWhisperer, may use customer data to improve the company’s tools, but it’s possible to opt out of the AI training. This used to be one of the most complicated processes on the list, but it’s been streamlined in recent months. Outlined…

Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W Norton & Company(Credit: Bloomsbury Press, University of California Press, W W Norton & Company)From the pursuit of happiness to the economy – in the run-up to the election, here are some books that offer context, insight and perspectives on the US.In the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election, it seems there is plenty for the population to disagree on. To help understand the differences of opinion, consider the following six books, which offer detailed analyses of the issues and their context. The books cover everything from the Declaration of Independence and…

Bitcoin miners have always been a reliable indicator of the overall sentiment within the market. By tracking their earnings and actions, we can get a sense of where the price of BTC might head next. In this article, we’ll explore the latest trends in Bitcoin mining, how miners are reacting to current market conditions, and what we can learn from key indicators to gauge how Bitcoin miners are positioning themselves for the coming weeks and months.State of Miner EarningsOne of the best ways to assess Bitcoin miner sentiment is to examine their earnings in relation to historical data. This can…

tl;dr EELS is an execution layer reference implementation in Python.It’s up to date with mainnet.It fills tests, and passes existing ones.There’s an example of an EIP implemented in EELS below. Introduction After more than a year in development, we’re pleased to publicly introduce the Ethereum Execution Layer Specification (affectionately known as EELS.) EELS is a Python reference implementation of the core components of an Ethereum execution client focused on readability and clarity. Intended as a spiritual successor to the Yellow Paper that’s more programmer friendly and up-to-date with post-merge forks, EELS can fill and execute state tests, follow mainnet1, and…

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As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a comprehensive report this week with a dire warning about the rapid growth of this criminal ecosystem. Many digital scams have traditionally relied on social engineering, or tricking victims into giving away their money willingly, rather than leaning on malware or other highly technical methods. But researchers have increasingly sounded the alarm that scammers are incorporating generative AI content and deepfakes to expand the scale and effectiveness of their operations. And the UN report offers the…

Vice President Kamala Harris blitzed the media this past week with appearances on CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC’s The View, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on NBC, Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show, the podcast Call Her Daddy, and a town hall with Univision. Go back a week or so and we saw her sit down for a one-on-one with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle and appear on the sports podcast All The Smoke. That ought to calm the media malcontents who’ve insisted that she hasn’t sat for enough interviews, right?Wrong. Politico opened the week with a widely panned assertion that, despite all…

The phrase “practice makes perfect” is usually reserved for humans, but it’s also a great maxim for robots newly deployed in unfamiliar environments.Picture a robot arriving in a warehouse. It comes packaged with the skills it was trained on, like placing an object, and now it needs to pick items from a shelf it’s not familiar with. At first, the machine struggles with this, since it needs to get acquainted with its new surroundings. To improve, the robot will need to understand which skills within an overall task it needs improvement on, then specialize (or parameterize) that action.A human onsite…

LLM-Jacking: Angreifer nutzen gestohlene AWS-Anmeldeinformationen, um LLMs zu aktivieren und die Kosten für die Opfer zu erhöhen.Tada Images – shutterstock.com Der Schwarzmarkt für den Zugang zu großen Sprachmodellen (Large Language Models – LLMs) wächst. Angreifer missbrauchen dazu zunehmend gestohlene Cloud-Zugangsdaten, um KI-Dienste wie Amazon Bedrock abzufragen – eine Methode, die als LLM-Jacking bezeichnet wird. Untersuchungen des Security-Anbieter Sysdig deuten darauf hin, dass Bedrohungsakteure nicht nur LLMs abfragen, die Kontoinhaber bereits auf solchen Plattformen bereitgestellt haben, sondern auch versuchen, neue zu aktivieren. Dies könnte die Kosten für die Opfer schnell in die Höhe treiben. “LLM-Jacking ist auf dem Vormarsch”, warnen die Sicherheitsforscher…