Exploring the Journey of Aniruddha Adak: A Tech Enthusiast and Innovator

Introduction Aniruddha Adak is a dynamic professional in the tech industry, known for his expertise in AI engineering, web development, and technical writing. With over two years of experience, Aniruddha has made significant contributions to the field, specializing in creating and managing AI agents and working with various AI agentic tools. Professional Background Aniruddha currently […]

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Curve Detectors

This article is part of the Circuits thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles and critical commentary delving into the inner workings of neural networks. An Overview of Early Vision in InceptionV1Naturally Occurring Equivariance in Neural Networks Every vision model we’ve explored in detail contains neurons which detect curves. Curve detectors in vision models […]

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Stripe holds early talks with banks to explore stablecoin integration

Photo: T. Schneider Key Takeaways Stripe is in early talks with banks to explore stablecoin integration for future payment solutions. The move highlights the growing significance of stablecoins in global payment systems and digital asset management. Share this article Stripe is already talking to banks about how they might use stablecoins for global payments, co-founder […]

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Inside GitHub: How we hardened our SAML implementation

For over a decade, GitHub has offered enterprise authentication using SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), starting with our 2.0.0 release of GitHub Enterprise Server in November 2014. SAML single sign-on (SSO) allows enterprises to integrate their existing identity providers with a broad range of GitHub products, extend conditional access policies, and bring enterprise organization management […]

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Fast food giant Steak ‘n Shake launches Bitcoin payments, boosts financial efficiency

Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake has expanded its payment options to include Bitcoin (BTC) at all of its locations globally, where regulations permit. The rollout, which began on May 16, utilizes the Lightning Network to enable faster and lower-cost transactions. The company’s COO, Dan Edwards, revealed the development on May 27 at the Bitcoin […]

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Over 70 Malicious npm and VS Code Packages Found Stealing Data and Crypto

As many as 60 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the package registry with malicious functionality to harvest hostnames, IP addresses, DNS servers, and user directories to a Discord-controlled endpoint. The packages, published under three different accounts, come with an install‑time script that’s triggered during npm install, Socket security researcher Kirill Boychenko said in […]

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Self-classifying MNIST Digits

Contents This article is part of the Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. Growing Neural Cellular Automata Self-Organising Textures Growing Neural Cellular Automata demonstrated how simple cellular automata (CAs) can learn to self-organise into complex […]

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