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Apple TVPremiering at the London Film Festival, Steve McQueen’s sprawling drama tries to shine new light on what happened, but has “many of the clichés of a traditional period piece”.As the director of the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen has proven himself to be an expert at approaching well-known historical horrors from revelatory new angles, and an expert at mixing mainstream thrills with the innovations that smack of his earlier career as a groundbreaking visual artist. That’s what he attempts again in Blitz, the opening film at the London Film Festival. A sprawling drama about the bombing of…

NFTs dominated headlines from late 2020 throughout 2021 before peaking in early 2022. By November 2020, the global NFT sales volume was around $8 million. NFT Market Down 92% From January 2022 Peaks: Best Time To Invest? However, roughly 13 months later, this had grown to over $6 billion. The rapid growth was pumped partly by the excess market liquidity due to record low interest rates. Due to the accommodative policy, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and even the BNB Chain ecosystems grew. Fast forward two years later, and NFTs are in shambles and struggling. Throughout 2022 and 2023, the trajectory has…

Over the last weeks, we have been closely monitoring the security and safety in Istanbul. In particular, we have been focused on how events in Israel and the Gaza Strip may impact attendee safety. We try to assess risk whenever we host an event. In the case of Devconnect Istanbul, we have consulted with our event organizer partners, local community members, and monitored government warnings that affect our community or the region. We recently took an additional step of working with external risk advisory services to consider where and how we may need to make changes to reflect conditions regionally.…

Liz Hamren, the CEO of Amazon’s Ring camera business, often wonders whether her husband remembered to grab the package of frozen goods that is regularly delivered to their home. She could nag him, or she could check the footage from their Ring.Historically, the latter option required her to tediously swipe through a video timeline in Ring’s app to identify if and when the box was picked up and by whom. But in recent weeks, Hamren has been able to let AI do the searching. She types “package today” into the app and right away can see the clip of her…

Blockchain-based battle royale game ‘Off the Grid’ has launched in early access, making it available to players on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via the Epic Games Store.Developed by Gunzilla Games, Off the Grid introduces a new dimension to the battle royale genre by integrating blockchain technology.Although the game’s full functionality is not yet available, this early release offers players a preview of its unique gameplay mechanics and blockchain-based economy. Source: Off the GridWhat is Off the Grid?Off the Grid is a dystopian battle royale shooter that places players in a large city map where teams must outlast…

Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this year. “What I hope this doesn’t do is make researchers inappropriately use chatbots, by wrongly thinking that all AI tools are equivalent,” he says.The fear that this could happen is founded in the explosion of interest around other supposedly transformative technologies. “There’s always hype cycles, recent ones being blockchain and graphene,” says Hodgkinson. Following graphene’s discovery in 2004, 45,000 academic papers mentioning the material were published between 2005 and 2009,…

Whereas Joe Biden was able to mask his radical ideas as normal, Kamala Harris doesn’t have the political savvy to conceal her far-left vision.

Evaluating generative AI systems can be a complex and resource-intensive process. As the landscape of generative models evolves rapidly, organizations, researchers, and developers face significant challenges in systematically evaluating different models, including LLMs (Large Language Models), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) setups, or even variations in prompt engineering. Traditional methods for evaluating these systems can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and highly subjective, especially when comparing the nuances of outputs across models. These challenges result in slower iteration cycles and increased cost, often hampering innovation. To address these issues, Kolena AI has introduced a new tool called AutoArena—a solution designed to automate the evaluation…

Big numbers The other way to judge the severity of a vulnerability is to look at its CVSS score. On that score, several other flaws stand out, principally CVE-2024-43468, an RCE in Microsoft Configuration Manager with a “critical” rated CVSS score of 9.8, and CVE-2024-43488, an issue in the Arduino extension for Visual Studio which Microsoft has already mitigated. However, one that every security manager will jump on is CVE-2024-43582, a critical RCE vulnerability with an 8.1 CVSS score in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server, an interface ransomware attackers in particular love to target. In total, eight vulnerabilities were tagged…

Fans on social media were quick to call Simmons out, with many branding his “objectifying” feedback as “creepy” and superficial. Simmons faced backlash for focusing too much on the contestants’ looks and appearances rather than their actual dancing, sparking heated reactions from viewers.After Tuesday’s show, “Dancing With the Stars,” pro Brandon Armstrong broke his silence about Gene Simmons’ comments about his partner, Chandler Kinney.Article continues below advertisementWhat Did Gene Simmons Say About Chandler Kinney?After Chandler Kinney and Brandon Armstrong delivered an energetic jive to “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister, Gene Simmons stirred controversy by telling Kinney she…