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Hackers and scammers laid back on the weekends, CertiK report finds Jacquelyn Melinek 9 hours While hackers continue to hack the crypto industry for a cash grab, the dollar amount is down substantially compared to the previous year. The total amount “lost” during 2023 from security incidents was almost $2 billion, down 51% from 2022, according to security-focused CertiK’s annual 2023 web3 security report. The report defines losses in this context as the value of digital assets stolen by malicious actors. During the past year, 10 incidents, including the $200 million Mixin Network and $197 million Euler Finance hacks, accounted…

HSBC has thrown its hat into the fintech app ring by announcing the launch of Zing, a foreign exchange app that helps users make multi-currency payments.Zing allows customers to hold 10 different currencies and access low-cost international transfers and foreign spending in over 30 currencies.The move by the London-based bank will make it part of a popularised cross-border payments industry that have fueled growth for the likes of Wise, Paysend, and Revolut.A banking giant among the disruptorsHSBC may have a huge brand clout of its own, but there’s some ground to make up for Zing. Wise has amassed 16 million…

This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.Click here to download a PDF of this article.“Economics I think is sort of like accounting — you know, it doesn’t immediately have any morals. You could go into welfare economics, you try to think of some human values or you go into variations.” – John F. Nash Jr., The University of Scranton, November, 2011.This quotation from John Forbes Nash Jr. is taken from a lecture Nash gave on “Ideal Money and the Motivations of Savings and Thrift”, some 61 years after…

Goddard astrophysicist Dr. Joshua Schlieder supports NASA’s Roman Space Telescope and Swift Observatory with creativity, community, and curiosity.Name: Joshua Schlieder Title: Wide Field Instrument Scientist for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and Operations Project Scientist for the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Formal Job Classification: Research Astrophysicist Organization: Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanets Laboratory, Astrophysics Division, Sciences and Exploration Directorate (Code 667) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission? As the Wide Field Instrument scientist for the Roman Space Telescope, I am a member of the…

The 14-year-old was approached by another boy in Park Road, Burgess Hill, who demanded he hand over the items he had on him. The suspect, 15, then attacked the boy before someone intervened. He was taken to hospital as a precaution and later discharged. MOST READ: The incident happened at around 4.30pm on December 28. The 15-year-old, from Burgess Hill, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of robbery. He has since been bailed, pending further enquiries. Anyone with any information about the incident is urged to report it online or call 101, quoting crime reference 47230252988. Source link [Featured] [Just In]

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View gallery Image Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock Jon Hamm’s dating history is the opposite of his lengthy acting career — it’s short and sweet! The former star of Mad Men is currently married to his wife, Anna Osceola, and was previously linked to his ex and longtime partner, Jennifer Westfeldt. Before meeting Anna, Jon was known for leaning away from the idea of marriage.  In 2012, the Top Gun: Maverick actor told Playboy that he didn’t have plans to exchange vows with anyone. “I don’t have a particularly defined example of marriage in my life,” he told the publication. “My parents…

Explaining the behavior of trained neural networks remains a compelling puzzle, especially as these models grow in size and sophistication. Like other scientific challenges throughout history, reverse-engineering how artificial intelligence systems work requires a substantial amount of experimentation: making hypotheses, intervening on behavior, and even dissecting large networks to examine individual neurons. To date, most successful experiments have involved large amounts of human oversight. Explaining every computation inside models the size of GPT-4 and larger will almost certainly require more automation — perhaps even using AI models themselves.  Facilitating this timely endeavor, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…

Amongst the new employment laws expected to come into effect in 2024 is the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill, which received Royal Assent and passed into law on 20 July 2023. Although a formal introduction date is yet to be announced, the new law is expected to come into force in April 2024, at which point employees across the UK will have greater access to flexibility over where, when and how they work. Employees will: gain the right to make two flexible-working requests within any 12-month period, whereas they previously could only make one such request; and no longer have…

Credit: iScience (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108533 Africa is on fire. It has been for thousands of years. The continent contains more than 50% of the total area on Earth that is burning, on average, and there is no sign of it stopping; indeed, the migrating, hemisphere-hopping African wildfire season is steadily increasing. The fire is essentially feeding itself in a kind of feedback loop as aerosols, induced by the perpetual conflagration, interact with the climate. It’s a process that plays a critical role in the regulation of African ecosystems, reinforcing wildfires and paving the way for elevated fire seasons in subsequent…