Michael Saylor’s Strategy announced the launch of the Bitcoin Security Consortium, a group of financial institutions and Bitcoin companies supporting the long-term quantum security of the Bitcoin network. The consortium pledged an aggregate $15 million over the next three years to support developers securing the Bitcoin network against the threat of a quantum computing breakthrough,…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Photos of giant, cauliflower-like clouds are popping up on Vancouver-area social media feeds that experts say are pyrocumulus clouds produced by a wildfire more than 200 kilometres away. BC Wildfire Service said the Anderson Creek fire was discovered by aircraft responding to one of the other nearby…
Think tank says construction continues at the facility; experts assess that the deeply buried complex is beyond the reach of US bunker-buster bombs. United States President Donald Trump has threatened to attack a site linked to Iran’s nuclear program known as Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified facility buried deep underground near one of Tehran’s main nuclear…
Folarin Balogun of the US celebrates scoring their first goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, Santa Clara, California, US on July 1, 2026. — Reuters Norway’s football chief told The Times they are set to make a formal complaint to Fifa over the suspension of Folarin Balogun’s World Cup ban because…
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable,”…
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A Montreal woman who lost both her hands and both legs after a rare bacterial infection triggered septic shock is sharing her story in hopes of raising awareness about the dangers and warning signs of sepsis. Cammeilla Ramdass, a 43-year-old esthetician and former model, said her ordeal began in January after she sought medical attention…
Prince William and Kate Middleton were in a celebratory mood after their eldest child, Prince George, officially hit the teen age and celebrated their 13th birthday on July 22, with official photos and a video released by Kensington Palace. Following tradition, senior members of the Royal Family – that’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla…
Players of Pakistan and England shake hands after their match of ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka, February 24, 2026. — Reuters Pakistan cricket team will tour England next year ahead of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 for a five-match One-Day International (ODI) series, the…
Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released by Marcel Rød (a PhD student from Stanford) under an MIT license, argues that this was a mistake. The library encodes text at gigabytes per second on a single machine, against baselines that are…
