Fri.Mar 07, 2025

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What Data Scientists Need to Know About AI Agents and Autonomous Systems

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Explore how AI agents are transforming industries, from chatbots to autonomous vehicles, and learn what data scientists need to know to implement them effectively.

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Leave It to Manus

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Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.

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DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

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Elon Musks DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce.

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'Next-Level' Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability

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In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict, even in principle.

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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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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

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Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsofts Copilot bot.

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Cliff Asness: The New 'Crypto Fort Knox' Is as Dumb as It Sounds

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To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.

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Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

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An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscows disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

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AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

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Jim Sanborns inbox is flooded with amateur cryptographers who say theyve cracked the code with chatbots like Grok 3.

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AMD YOLO

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AMD is sending us the two MI300X boxes we asked for. They are in the mail.

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A robot taught these birds a long-lost birdsong

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The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their eldersuntil scientists stepped in. The song of the male chingolo, or rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis), is one of the most distinctive sounds in South America.

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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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WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely

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Some affected discs aren’t manufactured anymore and can’t be replaced.

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AI Tool Diagnoses Multiple Diseases From One Blood Sample

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A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can simultaneously assess blood samples for infections, autoimmune diseases, and vaccine responses, according

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Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead

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Trolleys are weighed before checkout to identify any items customers might have missed or scanned twice.

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Delivering Generative Marketing Content to Customers

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Marketers have long dreamed of one-on-one customer engagement, but crafting the volume of messages required for personalized engagement at that level has been a major.

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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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Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?

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How a new atomic clock might be the way to tackle attacks on plane GPS systems

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Medical AI tools are growing, but are they being tested properly?

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AI medical benchmark tests fall short because they dont test efficiency on real tasks such as writing medical notes, experts say.

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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome

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In its final proposed remedy filing in the Google antitrust case, the Department of Justice reiterated that Google should stop paying partners for search placementand divest its dominant Chrome browser.

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Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding

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Reflection AI Inc., a new startup led by former Google DeepMind researchers, launched today with $130 million in early-stage funding.The company raised the capital over two rounds.

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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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How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars

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For years, a towing company cut the lines at the DMV in exchange for deep discounts on towed cars, according to an internal DMV report, showing the agencys oversight failures.

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How AI Is Leveling the Playing Field For Small Businesses to Compete With Industry Giants

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In 2025, entrepreneurs can use technology to overcome any resource gap they have compared to the competition. The public perception of artificial intelligence often hinges on reducing workforces and replacing workers.

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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement

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Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers. Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.

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Elon Musk's xAI Acquires 1-Million-Square-Foot Property In Memphis For Supercomputer Expansion

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Elon Musk's AI venture xAI has purchased a 1-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis, Tennessee.

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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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Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says

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On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s. If labels' proposed second amended complaint is accepted by the court, damages sought in the casewhich some already feared could financially ruin IA and shut it down for goo

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Big Gains with Hugging Face’s smolagents

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Utilize the simple yet advance AI agent framework for your works.

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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks

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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022.

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Microsoft reportedly develops LLM series that can rival OpenAI, Anthropic models - SiliconANGLE

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Microsoft Corp. has developed a series of large language models that can rival algorithms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, multiple publications reported today.

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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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Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when fired

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IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail?

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I Tried Prime Video's New AI Dubbing, and I Have Thoughts

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And the Oscar for best dub goes to. someone else, probably.

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Optimistic Locking in B-Trees

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B-Trees stand the test of time. In this article, we explore why we still use a 55 year old data structure: It is still super efficient on modern hardware when we use contention free optimistic lock coupling!

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Artificial intelligence is going to make drone wars much more deadly. It's already started.

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Drones equipped with AI are flying into battle in Ukraine and are three to four times more likely to hit their target than drones piloted solely by humans, a Ukraine war researcher reports.

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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.