Sat.Mar 15, 2025

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Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery

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The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for galaxies supports the idea that the universe was born in a black hole.

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Baidu Releases Reasoning AI Model to Take On DeepSeek

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Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials

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Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities were discovered in ruby-saml up to version 1.17.0. See how they were uncovered.

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An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

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The old teach a man to fish proverb, but for AI chatbots.

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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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How to learn a new language like a baby

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Reading too early may slow adults language learning progress.

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The ChatGPT Edge: Why Regular People Are Embracing $200 AI Bills

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Americans are turning to artificial intelligence to supercharge their work and hobbies. Theyre willing to pay for it too.

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Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training

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Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving.

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They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)

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We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say I. This is what we must yield up to God. Simone Weil God break down the door You wont find the answers here Not the ones you came looking for.

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AI vehicle counters to provide better input on upper valley traffic flows

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Each counter has a camera, operating 24/7, that captures both directions of traffic and an AI-processing unit that translates the video into data. This system is capable of counting the number of vehicles passing by and can distinguish vehicle types based on the Federal Highway Administration's 13 vehicle category classifications.

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Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields

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Thera offers an aliasing-free, arbitrary-scale super-resolution approach using neural heat fields. Explore state-of-the-art results and detailed methodology.

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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?

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OpenAI Says DeepSeek Could ‘Be Compelled’ to Cause Harm, Calls for Ban

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The ChatGPT firm has called for a ban on China-produced AI models 'that violate user privacy and create security risks such as the risk of IP theft.

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Peru's Great Urban Experiment (2023)

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A millennium ago, the Chim built a new way oflife in the vast city of Chan Chan

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What to Expect at Nvidia GTC 2025

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Robots, quantum computing, and AIso much AI. Nvidias been on a roll this year, starting with the announcement and launch of its 5000 series GPUs.

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'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Chip war: Chinese start-up aims to break Nvidia’s grip on AI with new model framework

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A new artificial intelligence (AI) framework developed by teams associated with Chinas Tsinghua University is said to be able to reduce reliance on

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Daniel Kahneman died last year by assisted suicide

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"I have believed since I was a teenager that the miseries and indignities of the last years of life are superfluous," he wrote in an email.

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Meta powers ahead with conscious chip uncoupling with Nvidia as it tests its first in-house training AI-PU

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Like many of Nvidias highest spending customers, Meta is looking to slash its reliance on the GPU makers expensive AI hardware by making its own

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Mandelbrot Set Explorer

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Explore the infinite complexity of the Mandelbrot Set with this online fractal viewer. Zoom in and generate high resolution images.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The AI Copyright Battle: Why OpenAI And Google Are Pushing For Fair Use

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Artificial intelligence powerhouses OpenAI and Google are aggressively lobbying the U.S. government to classify AI training on copyrighted data as "fair use.

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LearnLM: An experimental task-specific model for learning science principles (2024)

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Which AI Actually Is the Best at ‘Being Human?’

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We compared four leading AI companions (ChatGPT, Gemini, Hume and Sesame) across different dimensions of human-like interaction.

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Improving Recommender Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs

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Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail Warning—AI Attack Nightmare Is Coming True

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Republished on March 16th with additional security industry analysis on the threat from semi-autonomous AI attacks and a new GenAI attack warning. Email users have been warned for some time that AI attacks and hacks will ramp up this year, becoming ever harder to detect.

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Elderly patients can deteriorate in the ER. This team works to get them out

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AI Popular Myth Of Achieving Perfect AGI Versus Harsh Reality We Truly Face

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In todays column, I examine a prevailing assumption that attaining pinnacle AI, such as artificial general intelligence (AGI), will be fantastic since the AI will be absent of imperfections and represent idealized perfections of intelligence.

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Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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China’s Baidu launches two new AI models as industry competition heats up

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinas Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) said on Sunday it has launched two new artificial intelligence models, the multimodal ERNIE 4.

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How Many Artists Did the Beatles Kill?

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The sinister side of rock 'n' roll

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8 Ways I Use ChatGPT’s Deep Research Tool

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Knowing how to get the most out of ChatGPT's Deep Research tool will elevate your projects to the next level, and I've got some handy tips to help

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The Day Hobie Made Nixon a Surfboard

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.