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Ilyas et al. report a surprising result: a model trained on adversarial examples is effective on clean data. They suggest this transfer is driven by adverserial examples containing geuinely useful non-robust cues. But an alternate mechanism for the transfer could be a kind of “robust feature leakage” where the model picks up on faint robust […]
Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, minted an additional $2 billion USDT on July 16 on the Ethereum blockchain. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino confirmed the mint via a post on X, clarifying that the new mints were an “inventory replenish” on Ethereum. This means the funds serve as inventory for future issuance and blockchain swaps, […]
The following article is a guest post and opinion of Mike Romanenko, CVO & Co-founder of Kyrrex. The environment of crypto payments is shifting from speculative hysteria to underlying development. As the industry matures, a strong foundation in the form of business-to-business (B2B) payment infrastructure, user experience (UX), and regulation is materializing as crucial for […]
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Key Takeaways Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of $119,300 ahead of key crypto legislation debates. Upcoming bills in Congress may hugely impact crypto regulation and stablecoin issuance. Share this article Bitcoin advanced to a new record high of $119,300 on Sunday as bullish sentiment mounted ahead of a potentially game-changing week for the crypto […]
Amazon Prime Day is almost over, so now’s the time for members to stock up on discounted home essentials, clothing, shoes, and of course, tech. It’s safe to say that Amazon’s website has been overwhelming for the entirety of the event, so we wouldn’t blame you if you got distracted immediately upon opening it. If […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of four security flaws in OpenSynergy’s BlueSDK Bluetooth stack that, if successfully exploited, could allow remote code execution on millions of transport vehicles from different vendors. The vulnerabilities, dubbed PerfektBlue, can be fashioned together as an exploit chain to run arbitrary code on cars from at least three major […]
A Discussion of ‘Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features’: Two Examples of Useful, Non-Robust Features Ilyas et al. define a feature as a function fff that takes xxx from the data distribution (x,y)∼D(x,y) \sim \mathcal{D}(x,y)∼D into a real number, restricted to have mean zero and unit variance. A feature is said to be […]
Key Takeaways Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong has been booked on six counts of harassing phone calls in Cherokee County, Georgia. The arrest marks another legal incident for Armstrong, who was previously arrested in 2023. Share this article Ben Armstrong, the crypto influencer known as “BitBoy,” was taken into custody late last month in Cherokee County, Georgia, […]
Crypto investment products continued their strong momentum last week, recording $1.04 billion in inflows, according to the latest CoinShares report. This marks the 12th straight week of positive inflows, pushing the year-to-date total to $18 billion. The surge was accompanied by increased trading activity, with weekly volumes rising to $16.3 billion. As a result, the […]
