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FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new "Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees."The rule, set to take The U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a FAQ document clarifying its rule hidden fees for live events, hotels, and short-term rentals.

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Automate Dataset Labeling with Active Learning

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A few years ago, training AI models required massive amounts of labeled data.

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iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules

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A welcome upgrade.

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Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Learning with Reasoning LLMs

Machine Learning Mastery

As large language models have already become essential components of so many real-world applications, understanding how they reason and learn from prompts is critical.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12

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Staff of the Federal Trade Commission published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) designed to pro

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Use custom metrics to evaluate your generative AI application with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning Blog

With Amazon Bedrock Evaluations , you can evaluate foundation models (FMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, whether hosted on Amazon Bedrock or another model or RAG system hosted elsewhere, including Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases or multi-cloud and on-premises deployments. We recently announced the general availability of the large language model (LLM)-as-a-judge technique in model evaluation and the new RAG evaluation tool, also powered by an LLM-as-a-judge behind the scenes.

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AI finally solves biology’s hardest puzzle

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For years, the Eterna100 benchmark stood as a formidable challenge in computational biology, a set of 100 complex RNA design puzzles. Now, a new algorithm named Montparnasse, developed by Tristan Cazenave, has achieved what many thought highly improbable: it has solved the entire benchmark, heralding a new era for synthetic biology, medicine, and nanotechnology.

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Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

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Contribute to asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Lego built full-size F1 cars for the Miami GP drivers' parade

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Each of the 10 teams has a full-scale F1 car that has been faithfully reconstructed with over 400,000 Lego bricks

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Red Dragon Highly-Autonomous One-Way Attack Drone Unveiled

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AeroVironment's Red Dragon, which is said to already be combat proven, can find its own targets and doesn't need GPS for precision navigation.

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The CL1: the first code deployable biological computer

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The world's first code deployable biological computer. Test how lab-grown neurons process information and learn.

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Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI tool

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A team at Hugging Face has released a freely available, cloud-hosted computer-using AI agent. But be forewarned: Its quite sluggish and occasionally makes mistakes.

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The State of SSL Stacks

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The SSL landscape has shifted dramatically. In this paper, we examine OpenSSL 3.x, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and AWS-LC with HAProxy.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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Apple Intelligence 2.0: Here’s what’s coming to your iPhone next

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Apple Intelligence launched last year as Apples first take on AI for the rest of us. But its a new year, and in just a few weeks were expecting another wave of AI features for iPhone and more. Heres whats coming next with Apple Intelligence 2.0.

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Eagle Hunters of Kyrgyzstan

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In the mountains of Central Asia, a Small group of outdoorsmen are keeping an ancient tradition alive.

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Meet the new king of AI coding: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition dethrones Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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Theres a new king on the throne of AI coding models: Today, Googles DeepMind AI research unit unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O edition, a new version of its hit Gemini 2.

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When Abandoned Mines Collapse

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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge sinkhole opened up on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, creating massive traffic delays as crews worked to figure out what happened and get it fixed.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why

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With better reasoning ability comes even more of the wrong kind of robot dreams.

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Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

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'Are We All Doomed?' The CEO of Fiverr Says AI Is Definitely Taking Your Job. Here's What to Do About It.

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Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman told his employees that AI was coming for most jobs including his. A McKinsey report predicts that by 2030, AI could automate 30% of U.S. work. A Goldman Sachs report found that AI could eliminate 300 million jobs globally and automate two-thirds of work in the U.S.

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Exploratory v12.3 with Preview for AI Prompt, and more!

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Weve released Exploratory v12.3 last week, and its packed with powerful new improvements to help you work even faster with AI Prompt for data wrangling. Heres whatsnew: Preview Pane for AIPrompt Now you can see how your data will look before running the AI-generated Rscript. The new Preview pane shows the result instantly, so you can explore and validate the transformation before applyingit.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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I put ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude through the same job interview — here’s who got hired

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With AI tools now smarter and more creative than ever, I wondered: could a chatbot survive a job interview and actually land a job?

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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market

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Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.

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7 Powerful AI Prompts Every Project Manager Needs To Master Now

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Effectively managing complex projects from start to finish requires strategic thinking, resourcefulness, clarity of purpose, organizational skills, and fantastic people management.

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Rich Schroepell responds to Ron Rivest and the RSA MIT algorithm (1977)

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TIL Alice and Bob were almost Adolf and Bertholdt. Rich Schroepell responds to Ron Rivest and the RSA paper in 1977 and suggests naming the protagonists Adolf.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays — and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad

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Smith: Study finds ChatGPT replicates human prejudices and fails to recognize exceptional work reinforcing the inequalities it's intended to fix.

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Building Local-First Flutter Apps with Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync

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Build Flutter apps that work everywhere with local-first architecture. Discover how Riverpod, Drift, and PowerSync create seamless offline experiences.

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After AI, Nvidia wants to own a slice of that sweet trillion-dollar cybersecurity pie with its new DOCA software platfom

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Nvidia is extending its AI ambitions into cybersecurity with the launch of DOCA Argus, a new software framework aimed at protecting AI infrastructure

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Math Machine – A notebook will show your kid how far they have travelled

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A notebook will show your kid how far they have travelled

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?