At the end of 2024, a US court authorized the Department of Justice to sell 69,370 bitcoins from “the largest […]
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Here’s what we know, and what we don’t, about the awful Palisades wildfire
Let’s start with the meteorology. The Palisades wildfire and other nearby conflagrations were well-predicted days in advance. After a typically […]
Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware
Networks protected by Ivanti VPNs are under active attack by well-resourced hackers who are exploiting a critical vulnerability that gives […]
PNY introduces DDR5 notebook memory kits with 5600MHz speed
PNY has introduced its latest DDR5 notebook memory kits, offering improved performance and efficiency for laptops. Available in 64GB (2x32GB) […]
A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX’s Starship is almost ready to fly
Starship will test its payload deployment mechanism on its seventh test flight. SpaceX’s first second-generation Starship, known as Version 2 […]
CES 2025 teases alarming smart TV future loaded with unwanted software, gimmicks
Won’t someone please think of the viewer? Op-ed: TVs miss opportunity for real improvement by prioritizing corporate needs. The TV […]
Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out
Plaintiffs have brought claims of privacy invasion under California law. Plaintiffs “present evidence that their data has economic value,” and […]
Why solving crosswords is like a phase transition
There’s also the more recent concept of “explosive percolation,” whereby connectivity emerges not in a slow, continuous process but quite […]
Evola: An 80B-Parameter Multimodal Protein-Language Model for Decoding Protein Functions via Natural Language Dialogue
Proteins, essential molecular machines evolved over billions of years, perform critical life-sustaining functions encoded in their sequences and revealed through […]
This AI Paper Explores Quantization Techniques and Their Impact on Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Mathematical reasoning stands at the backbone of artificial intelligence and is highly important in arithmetic, geometric, and competition-level problems. Recently, […]