Author: Vidya Saras

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Love it or hate it, AI is blooming in offices across the world. Unless those offices are full of employees working for the U.S. federal government. A new report from Fedscoop casts doubt on Washington’s ability to keep up with the times. According to its analysis of multiple federal agencies, D.C. doesn’t have the funds or the talent to train to keep up with AI. Last year, President Joe Biden watched Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One and got freaked out about AI. It scared him so bad that he signed an executive order that called on tech companies to develop…

Alamy(Credit: Alamy)As a new hip-hop musical adaptation of the cult French classic opens in Paris, the film’s director Mathieu Kassovitz talks about the problems that inspired his work and how it remains relevant today.Barely a week after Mathieu Kassovitz had announced on social media that he was working on a musical adaptation of his 1995 film La Haine, 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk was shot and killed by a police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The event, which sparked demonstrations and riots across France last summer, was a shocking reminder of the killing that inspired La Haine in the first…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Crypto analyst Egrag has provided an historical analysis of the weekly XRP price chart, suggesting that the cryptocurrency is entering “uncharted territory.” Utilizing historical data and focusing on critical technical indicators. Egrag highlights significant shifts in XRP’s trading behavior, emphasizing the exhaustion felt by the XRP community during this prolonged cycle. “This cycle has been extremely exhausting and super manipulative, especially when it comes to XRP. But don’t lose hope!” he states. Why XRP Is In Uncharted Territory Central to Egrag’s analysis are two key indicators plotted on a weekly scale: the 21-week…

The EcoDev Research Team at the Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce the launch of five six-month research fellowship positions. This fellowship offers the opportunity for participants to dive deep into underexplored Ethereum use cases, identifying blockers and enablers that may affect their development. We invite researchers, developers, community members, and professionals from other industries to apply by submitting their background information and a one-page research proposal. We are looking for innovative ideas focused on nascent Ethereum use cases that: Materially and uniquely benefit from Ethereum’s capabilities.Focus on use cases that create positive sum outcomes and real-world benefits.Have yet to…

Ethereum-based metaverse platform Decentraland is gearing up to release a desktop client that brings significant improvements to its graphics and performance.The update is set to address the limitations of the current browser-based version, which has been criticized for its technical shortcomings.The desktop client will enter public beta on October 22, offering users a more seamless experience in the virtual world. Source: DecentralandWhat can we expect from this update?The upcoming desktop client introduces enhanced visuals and improved in-game mechanics. Whilst Decentraland retains its cartoon-like style, the new version features a higher level of detail, smoother animations, and a more dynamic environment.…

OpenAI first announced the option for people to build custom GPTs nearly a year ago. The company described GPTs as an automated, low-code way to create specialized experiences on top of ChatGPT, and said it believed impressive GPTs would be created by nontraditional developers like educators, coaches, and tinkerers.The Store would be accessible to customers and builders who paid for ChatGPT Plus, Teams, or Enterprise. OpenAI also stated that it would launch a GPT-builder revenue program and that US builders would be paid based on user engagement with their GPTs. It promised to provide details on the criteria for payments.The…

Recently, I was doomscrolling Twitter, reading the Republican-aligned election polls Elon Musk forces into my feed in an effort to make me die from alcohol poisoning. I decided to express my rage (which is the only thing Twitter is good for anymore) at the silent enemy of democracy in this and every election: the Electoral College.As you can see, the thing has 3.8 million views (so far) and generated 13,000 comments. Most people (in my bubble of people who have self-selected to find my tweets) agreed with me, but a bunch of MAGAs found my tweet and used their political…

Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking at hundreds of signals and millions of data points, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.Engineers often streamline this complex problem using deep-learning models that can detect anomalies in measurements taken repeatedly over time by each turbine, known as time-series data.But with hundreds of wind turbines recording dozens of signals each hour, training a deep-learning model to analyze time-series data is costly and cumbersome. This is compounded by the fact that the model may need to be retrained after deployment, and wind farm operators may lack…

TSViPhoto | shutterstock.com Wie Europol in einer Pressemitteilung bekanntgibt, konnte die Behörde im Rahmen einer internationalen Kooperation mit Strafverfolgungsbehörden in neun verschiedenen Ländern die (Cyber-)Crime-Kommunikationsplattform Ghost zerschlagen. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden bislang insgesamt 51 Verdächtige in vier Ländern festgenommen, darunter auch ein Mitglied einer italienischen Mafia-Organisation. “Die Plattform, die unter dem Namen Ghost bekannt ist, wurde als Werkzeug für eine ganze Reihe krimineller Aktivitäten genutzt, darunter Drogenhandel im großen Stil, Gewaltverbrechen, Geldwäsche und andere Formen der organisierten Kriminalität”, schreibt die europäische Polizeibehörde und ergänzt: “Ghost war bei kriminellen Organisationen insbesondere wegen seiner fortschrittlichen Sicherheitsfunktionen beliebt.” Über Malware infiltriert Laut Europol wurde…