Naveed Ahmad

China state broadcaster secures WC rights

LONDON: China’s state broadcaster CCTV announced Friday it has secured the rights to air the FIFA World Cup this year and in 2030, ending an agonising wait for fans in the football-mad country. With kick-off less than a month away, hundreds of millions of Chinese fans were left wondering how they could watch matches before…

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Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup

Zyphra, the San Francisco-based AI lab behind the ZAYA1 model family, released ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview — a preview of its early work in diffusion-language models. The release demonstrates that an existing autoregressive language model can be converted into a discrete diffusion model with no systematic loss of evaluation performance, while delivering substantial inference speedups on AMD hardware….

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Farage’s .7M Crypto-Linked Present Raises Eyebrows After .8M Residence Acquisition

Farage’s $6.7M Crypto-Linked Present Raises Eyebrows After $1.8M Residence Acquisition

Trusted Editorial content material, reviewed by main business consultants and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A parliamentary ethics probe is now underway and centered on Nigel Farage, chief of the UK’s Reform Occasion, after studies surfaced that the federal government official purchased a $1.8 million property weeks previous to getting into workplace — a purchase order…

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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

A hotel check-in system left more than one million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company responsible. The hotel check-in system, called Tabiq, is maintained by the Japan-based tech startup Reqrea. According to its website, Tabiq…

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Bitwise Set to Launch Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETF

The launch comes only days after another HYPE ETF, 21Shares’ THYP, started trading, racking up $1.8M on its debut. Asset manager Bitwise is set to launch an exchange-traded fund tracking Hyperliquid’s native HYPE token. The ETF will start trading on May 15 under the ticker BHYP on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Capitalizing on…

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Pentagon cancels plans to deploy 4,000 troops to Poland, drawing outrage – National

The Pentagon has canceled plans to deploy 4,000 U.S.-based troops to Poland, two U.S. officials said, a surprise decision slammed by lawmakers that renewed questions about President Donald Trump’s expected troop cuts in Europe. General Christopher LaNeve, the Army’s acting chief of staff, confirmed the decision during testimony on Friday before the House Armed Services Committee. But…

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