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12 Chinese hackers charged with US Treasury breach — and much, much more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today it has criminally charged 12 Chinese nationals it says are behind attacks that hit more than 100 US organizations, including the Treasury, in a string of attacks going as far back as 2013. The DOJ accuses the people of carrying out their attacks either on their own or…
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Researchers at Stanford Introduces LLM-Lasso: A Novel Machine Learning Framework that Leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to Guide Feature Selection in Lasso ℓ1 Regression
Feature selection plays a crucial role in statistical learning by helping models focus on the most relevant predictors while reducing complexity and enhancing interpretability. Lasso regression has gained prominence among various methods because of feature selection while simultaneously building a predictive model. It achieves this by enforcing sparsity through an optimization process that penalizes large…
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AxoNN: Advancing Large Language Model Training through Four-Dimensional Hybrid Parallel Computing
Deep Neural Network (DNN) training has experienced unprecedented growth with the rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. The effectiveness of these models directly correlates with increasing their size, a development made possible by advances in GPU technology and frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. However, training neural networks with billions of parameters presents…
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Senate votes to strip the CFPB of its power to regulate X
The Senate voted on Wednesday to strip a key financial regulator of its ability to monitor digital platforms like X, as the social media company’s owner, Elon Musk, has become the public face of the government office seeking to shrink the agency’s workforce. The resolution, which still requires House approval, would effectively moot a rule…
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Qwen Releases QwQ-32B: A 32B Reasoning Model that Achieves Significantly Enhanced Performance in Downstream Task
Despite significant progress in natural language processing, many AI systems continue to encounter difficulties with advanced reasoning, especially when faced with complex mathematical problems and intricate coding tasks. Current large language models sometimes struggle with multi-step logic and may not generalize well beyond their training data. Moreover, limitations in common-sense reasoning often hinder their broader…
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Alibaba’s new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek R1 with way smaller compute requirements
While DeepSeek-R1 operates with 671 billion parameters, QwQ-32B achieves comparable performance with a much smaller footprint.Read More
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The Trump administration wants to review all prospective citizens’ social media accounts
The Trump administration may soon demand the social media accounts of people applying for green cards, US citizenship, and asylum or refugee status. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) â the federal agency that oversees legal migration, proposed the new policy in the Federal Register this week â calling this information ânecessary for a rigorous…
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Gartner Giveth Guidance on Data & Analytics, And We Taketh
Gartner arguably is the most respected IT analyst firm on the planet, so when its analysts and VPs share what they’re thinking, as they did during the company’s Data & Analytics Summit this week, it’s worth taking notice. What moves the needle for enterprise–in the field of bit data and analytics, or any realm for…
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Tweetbot’s developers are making a Bluesky client
Tapbots, the developer behind the well-loved Tweetbot and Ivory apps for Twitter and Mastodon, is working on an iOS and Mac app for Bluesky called Phoenix, as spotted by MacStories. The company plans to release the app this summer and says it will open a “limited public alpha as soon as we can.” This isn’t…
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SimilarWeb data: This obscure AI startup grew 8,658% while OpenAI crawled at 9%
SimilarWeb data reveals dramatic AI market upheaval with Deepseek (8,658% growth) and Lovable (928% growth) dominating.Read More