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Late in his team’s game against the Green Bay Packers on September 15, Indianapolis Colts tight end Kylen Granson caught a short pass over the middle of the field, charged forward, and lowered his body to brace for contact. The side of his helmet smacked the face mask of linebacker Quay Walker, and the back of it whacked the ground as Walker wrestled him down. Rising to his feet after the 9-yard gain, Granson tossed the football to an official and returned to the line of scrimmage for the next snap.Aside from it being his first reception of the 2024…

Nansen revealed its new blockchain analytics platform for Solana. The integration aims to provide Web3 investors with the network’s detailed on-chain data and offer better tools for blockchain analytics. Nansen Launches New Platform On Thursday, blockchain analytics firm Nansen announced the launch of its new platform for Solana. The platform is set to offer “advanced tools” to monitor token balances, track wallet movements, and analyze Solana’s Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) ecosystem. According to the announcement, the new platform seeks to provide “actionable insights across Solana’s Blockchain” by addressing the Web3 analytics sector’s gaps, aiming to provide better…

Google just added a new customization tool for the viral AI podcasts in its NotebookLM software. I got early access and tested it out using Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis as the source material, spending a few hours generating podcasts about the seminal novella—some of them more unhinged than others.Released by Google Labs in 2023 as an experimental, AI-focused writing tool, NotebookLM has been enjoying a resurgence in user interest since early September, when the developers added an option to generate podcast-like conversations between two AI voices—one male-sounding and one female-sounding—from uploaded documents. While these audio “deep dives” can be used…

TL;DR: The EPF concluded its third cohort and is preparing for the fourth cohort. Applications will be open soon. Sign up here to get notified when they open. The Ethereum Protocol Fellowship recently completed its third successful cohort in February 2023. Its completion marked 4 months of immersive learning, research and contribution to the Ethereum core ecosystem from a group of talented and dedicated fellows. Before we look into the third cohort, let’s recap what Ethereum core development is and how EPF fits into its landscape. Protocol development At the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem lies core development, the work…

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While the biometric-scanning Orb and the World network have their roots in crypto tokens, “crypto” wasn’t an oft-mentioned word during the event. Instead, Altman and Blania emphasized World’s blockchain service, digital asset management, and virtual communication tools.Blania claimed during the press briefing that, in the future, World hopes to build the “largest finance network” on the planet.In a separate interview with WIRED, Blania said that during regular Sunday meetings at Atlman’s house, the pair were inspired by the rise of PayPal. Similar to the way that Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and others once pioneered digital payments and fundamentally changed online…

Kamala Harris finally faced probing and persistent questions about her record as vice president and plans for the presidency in an interview with Bret Baier.

One of the biggest hurdles organizations face is implementing Large Language Models (LLMs) to handle intricate workflows effectively. Issues of speed, flexibility, and scalability often hinder the automation of complex workflows requiring coordination across multiple systems. Enterprises struggle with the cumbersome nature of configuring LLMs for seamless collaboration across data sources, making it challenging to adopt them for operational efficiency. Katanemo has open-sourced Arch-Function, making scalable agentic AI accessible to developers, data scientists, and enterprises. By open-sourcing this tool, Katanemo enables the global AI community to contribute and adopt its capabilities. Arch-Function empowers industries like finance and healthcare to build…

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers. The younger brother is facing charges that could land him life in prison for allegedly seeking to kill people with his attacks. Image: FBI Active since at least January 2023, AnonSudan has been described in media reports as a “hacktivist” group motivated by ideological causes. But in a criminal complaint, the FBI said those…

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Syfy “Stargate SG-1” is an important show to a lot of people. Even for those who weren’t necessarily fans of the film “Stargate,” the series became a gateway (no pun intended) to a much larger universe and helped the franchise grow beyond what was originally intended. When the “Stargate” movie failed to launch a trilogy as desired, TV became the franchise’s backup plan — one that allowed this particular sci-fi universe to thrive. Even so, all great things must come to an…