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March 12, 2024 update: Since the initial publication of this post, several client teams have made Dencun-compatible releases containing significant performance and stability improvements. While previously announced versions are still considered sufficient for the upgrade, a column has been added to the Client Releases tables highlighting the latest recommended versions for all clients. Mainnet blobs are coming .oO: Two years after its ETHDenver inception, dozens of testing calls and devnets later, protodanksharding is finally going live on mainnet!Dencun will activate on the Ethereum mainnet at epoch 269568, occurring on March 13, 2024 at 13:55 UTC. Node operators & stakers must…

How NFTs are Helping Raise Funds for Cancer Support Charity Maggie’s In a creative twist on fundraising, renowned digital artist Trevor Jones is “locked up” in a charity event called Jail or Bail—and he’s calling on the NFT community to help bail him out. Trevor is facing some pretty hefty (but tongue-in-cheek) charges: leading a digital art rebellion against traditional art institutions. However, his real mission is much more noble—raising money for Maggie’s Centres, a charity dedicated to providing vital support for those affected by cancer. The Cause: Maggie’s Centres and Cancer Support With over 50% of people likely to…

Analysis D1Baseball Staff – September 27, 2024 In the fall of 2015, we presented our inaugural Top 100 Programs rankings, which we described as an attempt to assess the overall health of each program in the current era. A lot can change quickly in college baseball, so we decided to make this a biennial exercise. We updated the Top 100 in 2017 and again in 2019. But after the pandemic wiped out the 2020 season, we decided to push the 2021 update back a year to 2022.For the purpose of this exercise, we don’t care what happened in the 1970s or…

CBS Television Distribution Alan Hale, Jr. became a performer as part of his family’s legacy. His mother was actress Gretchen Hartman who appeared in dozens of films in the 1910s, while his father, Alan Hale (real name: Rufus Edward MacKahan) racked up hundreds of credits in the silent era, typically as a reliable sidekick to Errol Flynn. Hartman retired from acting in 1929, and Hale, Sr. continued to work until his death in 1950. Alan Hale, Jr. first appeared on the screen as an infant, “starring” opposite his mother. Hale made his Broadway debut in 1931,…

Next’s chief executive, Lord Wolfson, has sold a £29m stake in the retail giant ahead of potential changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) system, expected in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s maiden Budget next month. New filings reveal that the Conservative peer offloaded 290,000 shares between Friday and Tuesday, valuing his total stake at £29.2m. Prior to this sale, Lord Wolfson owned approximately 1.4 million shares, equating to a 1.2% stake in Next, valued at around £141m. The company has declined to comment on the sale. Following the announcement, Next shares dropped by 2%. The timing of the sale has raised…

A new scientific report finds that the gap between federal and state regulations on cannabis is leading to emerging problems with public health Jim Mone/AP hide caption toggle caption Jim Mone/AP More than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis, be it for medical purposes, recreational use, or both. The shelves of cannabis dispensaries offer an ever-widening array of gummies, drinks and joints. Meanwhile, the federal government still considers most types of cannabis illegal. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, released this week, finds this disconnect between the states and the federal government…

A unique SpaceX mission is underway.A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-40 (SLC-40) at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (Sept. 28) at 1:17 p.m. EDT (1717 GMT), kicking off the Crew-9 astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA. “That was a sweet ride,” NASA astronaut Nick Hague, Crew-9’s commander, radioed SpaceX’s launch control after reaching orbit with crewmate Alexandr Gorbunov of Russia. The astronauts are will arrive at the ISS on Sunday, Sept. 29. You can follow the mission with our SpaceX mission live update page.(Image credit: NASA TV)It was the first-ever astronaut…

There’s not much Kamala Harris can do to negate the electoral consequences of this administration’s border policy except to keep quiet about it. Her campaign, though, appears to be doing the opposite. She’s leaning in.

The research evaluates the reliability of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, LLaMA, and BLOOM, extensively used across various domains, including education, medicine, science, and administration. As the usage of these models becomes more prevalent, understanding their limitations and potential pitfalls is crucial. The research highlights that as these models increase in size and complexity, their reliability does not necessarily improve. Instead, performance can decline for seemingly simple tasks, resulting in misleading outputs that may go unnoticed by human supervisors. This trend indicates the need for a more thorough examination of LLM reliability beyond conventional performance metrics. The central…

This is where things get tricky. Reguly argued that this amounts to a security hole. “With the proof-of-concept provided, we’re performing the action of launching an elevated command prompt. This could be done by an administrator, but they’d get a UAC prompt. Instead, we’re using a malicious technique, and you don’t get a UAC prompt,” Reguly said. “If UAC is a security feature and we’re running something that would normally require a UAC prompt without one, that sounds to me like a security feature bypass. Microsoft, traditionally, has fixed security feature bypasses, but, in this case, because of the wording…