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Bankers are looking to turn the tide on financial crime with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) AI agents autonomously collect evidence and recommend decisions. The U.S. Treasury has prevented over $1 billion in check fraud using AI-powered risk models.

This section details key training parameters for entity recognition models, including the impact of training size and perturbation thresholds on performance, and provides insights into the use of LLM probabilities.

Deplatforming online hate communities, such as KIWI FARMS, raises significant ethical and legal questions. While it’s important to address harmful content, a purely reactive approach can foster negative consequences, such as radicalization. A more nuanced strategy is needed, balancing content removal with education, collaboration with local authorities, and psychological support. Effective regulation and legal frameworks, in accordance with human rights standards, are key to...

Launch platforms, influencers, and agencies profit from noise, not signal. The more confused buyers get, the more middlemen charge to "help" Most launch platforms, like Product Hunt, drive traffic from other makers — not end-users.

Most people treat the business model canvas like a checklist. This article breaks down how entrepreneurs, product leaders, and product managers should actually use it — with different orders, different questions, and a brutally honest approach to whether you are building a feature, a product, or a real business.

The role of infrastructure providers in content moderation is evolving, with companies increasingly pressured to act as content moderators. This shift complicates the process of deplatforming controversial websites like KIWI FARMS. While some tech firms have succeeded in temporarily disrupting such platforms, the long-term effectiveness remains questionable. The growing centralization of the Internet and the political complexities surrounding online content regulation highlight the challenges...

The paper concludes that while entity recognition is relatively straightforward, detecting high re-identification risk spans is challenging. Future work will explore alternative evaluation methods and the use of re-identification attacks for assessing sanitization effectiveness.

A few months back, I sent out 166 applications, pouring my heart into each one, hoping for a breakthrough. But the reality was harsh; I barely got any responses, and my conversion rate was a dismal 2%. I realised my CV was holding me back, so I set out to fix it. I developed five essential rules that turned things around, boosting my conversion...

Decentralized cloud computing offers several advantages over traditional (centralized) services. Data is encrypted and stored locally, with computations performed on distributed nodes, mitigating the vulnerability of centralized storage. Aleph Cloud has evolved to include partnerships like Ubisoft for NFT metadata storage and projects like LibertAI for decentralized AI services.

The article “Skewed Thinking of Scale” examines how human perception is inherently limited to specific spatial and temporal ranges, shaped by evolutionary factors. This constraint leads us to interpret the world through a narrow lens, often mistaking our limited perspective for absolute truth. The piece highlights how this bias affects our understanding of vast or minute phenomena, decision-making, and even language evolution, urging a...

Notifications are useful, however, it varies with user and the notification type. Some of the notifications may be important but we don’t want them popping up all the time in the Windows 11 Desktop. It is highly essential to have settings to **control notifications effectively**.

Opera GX has launched its dedicated ROG Edition. In this article, we will check out what’s interesting about this browser, and other quirks and features of this Opera GX Special Edition.

In this tutorial we will setup an example repository and arm it with sophisticated static analysis tooling. We will use really simple server using `express` library.

There’s a lot of hype about ‘vibe coding’, but it’ll make you feel lighter if you do it more often. This is maintenance rebranded as exploration—curiosity, but profitable.

A polyfill is a piece of code (usually JavaScript) that adds functionality to older browsers. In this article, we'll look at how to build a polyfill for call, apply, and Bind.

Let's walk through this journey. My journey. Maybe it helps someone else avoid the same database-induced headache.

R Systems is a top digital product engineering firm that creates chip-to-cloud software, platforms, and digital experiences. R Systems helps clients boost revenue and operational efficiency with its expertise in Cloud, Data, AI, and Customer Experience (CX). The company serves major players in industries like high-tech, telecom, media, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, including ISVs, SaaS, and Internet companies. R Systems has partnered with HackerNoon...

The HackerNoon Writing Contests have officially become one of the largest revenue-generating inventories. Reason? It is a win-win for everyone involved - the sponsor, the community, and the publication. By sponsoring your own writing contest on your chosen tag and making the HackerNoon community compete with each other atop your brand name, you get the organic, thought-provoking content that readers have come to expect...

Sogni and Salad expand decentralized AI infrastructure to allow GPU owners and renters to earn from AI workloads.

Why NiceHash’s new Scrypt mining firmware could redefine efficiency for Litecoin and Dogecoin miners around the world.

Hartej Sawhney, founder and CEO of Hosho, provides insights into the difficulties of smart contract security auditing. In 2024, the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors experienced a significant increase in security breaches. Leading bug bounty platforms are offering increasingly substantial payouts to ethical hackers who uncover critical vulnerabilities in smart contracts.

When using SeaTunnel 2.3.9 to sync data from Oracle to Doris, you may encounter garbled characters, especially if the Oracle database uses the ASCII character set. But don’t panic—this article walks you through why this happens and how to fix it.

Symmetric pure equilibria reveal how fairness and efficiency diverge in multi-player games, highlighting the cost of self-interest as player numbers grow.