Author: Vidya Saras

Tether could remain in the EU market despite its concerns about the impact of MiCA rules on stablecoins. Stablecoin firm Tether will offer a new product in the EU market amidst changing regulations, according to a report from Coindesk. Tether said in a statement that it is developing a technology-based solution that will be “tailor made to serve the necessities of the European market,” adding that it will reveal the technology publicly “in due course.” The company broadly commended the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) rules while criticizing certain aspects of the new regulations. Tether said: “As we…

Michael Hiltzik, an mRNA and lockdown fanatic at the Los Angeles Times, is writing a hit piece on the Stanford University conference about Covid I went to Friday. Let’s help him out!

Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in recent years, but understanding their capabilities and limitations remains a challenge. Researchers are trying to develop methodologies to reason about the strengths and weaknesses of AI systems, particularly LLMs. The current approaches often lack a systematic framework for predicting and analyzing these systems’ behaviours. This has led to difficulties in anticipating how LLMs will perform various tasks, especially those that differ from their primary training objective. The challenge lies in bridging the gap between the AI system’s training process and its observed performance on diverse tasks, necessitating a more comprehensive analytical…

Nadkarni said that without built-in CASB, Aryaka customers were using the company’s cloud connector to connect to third-party security solutions for cloud access control.  “Now it’s integrated at the network layer,” she explained. “It’s easier to manage in one place, where all the policies are easier to troubleshoot. Because, now when we do our configuration in Aryaka, you can actually see at what point the traffic was either denied or dropped or where the policies are for each one.” The CASB capabilities allow Aryaka to provide granular access control and visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud application usage. “Because we are…

Taylor Swift, Kameron N. Saunders, and Travis Kelce. Getty Images (3) Taylor Swift’s worlds collided (literally) at the Kansas City Chiefs vs New Orleans Saints game on Monday, October 7. Saints defensive tackle Khalen Saunders — the brother of Swift’s Eras Tour dancer Kameron Saunders — tackled Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, during the game and prevented him from scoring a touchdown. Khalen, 28, then intercepted a pass from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. “That’s my backup dancer’s brother,” Swift appeared to tell someone after the big play in her Arrowhead Stadium suite in a clip from the game shared via X.…

By Chloe Mari A. Hufana, Reporter UNEMPLOYMENT in the Philippines eased to 4% in August as more female workers got hired in the service sector, the local statistics agency said on Tuesday. Preliminary data from the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) labor force survey showed the jobless rate fell from 4.7% in July and 4.4% in August last year. This translated 2.07 million unemployed Filipinos, down by 305,000 from July and by 149,000 from a year earlier. “A major factor that we saw in August 2024 is that many women participated in the labor force and many of them were absorbed…

Our family loves Halloween! It’s true, in the early days we were trick-or-treating holdouts (all that sugary store-bought Halloween candy… shudder!). Now that my kids are older I’ve figured out a healthy balance with these Halloween food ideas. We just buy candy with better ingredients (and make sure to have non-candy treats too). Reinventing our Halloween dinner plan is another way I made peace with this sugar-happy holiday. These festive but healthy Halloween recipes are perfect for a bite to eat before or after trick-or-treating, or just a way to make Halloween fun at home! You can even serve up some of these…

The Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ is 25% off for Prime Day and is now the lowest price it’s been all year. This model sits at the top of our best budget telescopes under $500 guide, so if you want an astronomy experience without breaking the bank, this is a deal worth considering.Save 25% ($120) on the Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ telescope when you get it from Amazon.In our Celestron StarSense Explorer DX 130AZ review, we found that it’s the stand-out budget telescope for a reason. It offers a sizable aperture and good-quality optics for crisp and bright views,…

“I was hitting a wall with Lumi,” Lamb says. “It’s great to learn, but we found that people just weren’t progressing enough.”Lamb envisions the Airwave as being a much more immediate approach that brings the player’s hands directly into the lesson itself.AI MasteringOf course, this wouldn’t be a gadget announced in 2024 if it didn’t have a stack of AI baked into it. Beyond the AI-enabled computer vision of the Airwave’s camera, the Roli Learn platform is being updated with Open AI’s ChatGPT chatbot. This will allow piano students to use their voice to control the experience, interact with the…

Glasgow Warriors will stage their home leg of this season’s 1872 Cup tie against Edinburgh at Hampden Park to try to attract a new generation of fans, says managing director Al Kellock.Warriors will face their Scottish rivals in the first match of the United Rugby Championship festive double-header on Sunday 22 December (15:00 GMT), a day later than originally scheduled.Edinburgh traditionally elect to host their derby matches at Murrayfield, with a capacity of 67,000, rather than their own Hive Stadium.Last year’s game between the sides last season drew a crowd just short of 38,000 at Murrayfield.With the capacity at Warriors’…