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What Makes Microsoft Phi 3.5 SLMs a Game-Changer for Generative AI?

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Introduction The newest model collection from Microsoft’s Small Language Models (SLMs) family is called Phi-3. They surpass models of comparable and greater sizes on a variety of benchmarks in language, reasoning, coding, and math. They are made to be extremely powerful and economical. With Phi-3 models available, Azure clients have access to a wider range […] The post What Makes Microsoft Phi 3.5 SLMs a Game-Changer for Generative AI?

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Insurance Technology, How InsurTech Is Assured

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InsurTech insurance technology is moving towards more on-demand delivery models embedded into our applications.

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The short guide to understanding data intelligence

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Terms like “data governance,” “Generative AI” and “large language models” are becoming commonplace in the workplace. But for business leaders, it takes more.

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Strange Attractors

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Interactive Mathematical Applets and Animations

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What’s New in Apache Airflow® 3.0—And How Will It Reshape Your Data Workflows?

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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Community Tips for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

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Within the Databricks Community, there is a technical blog where community members share best practices, tutorials and insights on data analytics, data engineering.

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Texas Is Arming Mexico's Gunmen

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Data shows that firearms were purchased in 212 Texas counties before being trafficked to Mexico and recovered as crime guns from 2015-2022, for a total of nearly 22,000 firearms.

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Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take effect

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Oregon’s experiment with drug decriminalization is coming to an end Sunday. A new law set to take effect then makes so-called personal use possession a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail.

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Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them

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New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashes

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How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients

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Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.

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Have we stopped to think about what LLMs model?

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Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues

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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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Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

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Millions are likely to perish

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The papers that most heavily cite retracted studies

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Data from giant project show how withdrawn research propagates through the literature. Data from giant project show how withdrawn research propagates through the literature.

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Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality

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Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

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Einstein's Other Theory of Everything

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After Einstein explained gravity as a consequence of curved spacetime, he tried to explain matter the same way.

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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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The EV evolution is going to take longer than we thought

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Things are likely to remain volatile and unpredictable. And that’s okay.

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We can now watch Grace Hopper's famed 1982 lecture on YouTube

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The lecture featured Hopper discussing future challenges of protecting information.

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OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. The fast, light, and easy way to run containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.

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Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger

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This is a long-due update on porting Godot to the iPad. Shortly after my last blog post covering the development work on May 29th, Apple held its WWDC 2024 conference. I went into the conference with gusto, expecting to fully embrace all the iOS 18 APIs.

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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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E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space

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E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space

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Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream

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A simple tutorial for calling webhooks on Postgres data and schema changes using pgstream.

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'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated – buyers beware

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TechTuber Der8auer has highlighted the plight of one of his fans who was scammed into buying a fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor. The expert overclocker talks viewers through some of the outward signs that this chip was a fake, which could prevent others for falling for scams like this.

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The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types

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Exploring the web's clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.

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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 the Oldest Company in the World Survived Nearly 1,500 Years

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In This Beautiful Library, Bats Guard the Books

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Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17,

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Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime

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IEEE President’s Note: Why Students Should Stay with IEEE

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I would like our student members to know that IEEE is much more than just a club you join at school. It is an international community that can help students build and sustain successful careers as technical professionals after they graduate. For more than 40 years, IEEE has been a great place to build my personal brand and to create a valuable professional network.

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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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Meta data center electricity consumption hits 14,975GWh

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In a huge jump as it embraces AI build out

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HMD Barbie Phone

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Unplug and play with the Barbie™ Flip Phone. Enjoy a chic, customizable design with stickers and covers. Perfect for quality time, free from digital distractions.

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Dexcom starts selling its new over-the-counter glucose monitor in the U.S.

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The San Diego company launched the first FDA-approved continuous glucose monitor that doesn’t require a prescription.

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Rediscovering Turbo Pascal

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Turbo Pascal 3 for CP/M comes preinstalled with the Z80-MBC2 and V20-MBC homebrew computers. Checking out the development environment mad.

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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?