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A digital journey to the ocean depths, a virtual reality exploration of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and an international conference on art and technology are among the events announced today for Ireland’s arts & technology festival, Beta. Title image :Foolish Flame, by artists Peter Power and Leon Butler. The immersive experience exploring climate change will be open to members of the public as part of Beta Festival 2025. Supported by The Digital Hub the event will be held at various locations throughout Dublin from November 7th to 23rd. This year’s theme explores concepts of water and fluidity, and speaking at the programme announcement the festival’s curator Aisling…

The beginning A few months ago, while working on the Databricks with R workshop, I came across some of their custom SQL functions. These particular functions are prefixed with “ai_”, and they run NLP with a simple SQL call: > SELECT ai_analyze_sentiment(‘I am happy’); positive > SELECT ai_analyze_sentiment(‘I am sad’); negative This was a revelation to me. It showcased a new way to use LLMs in our daily work as analysts. To-date, I had primarily employed LLMs for code completion and development tasks. However, this new approach focuses on using LLMs directly against our data instead. My first reaction was…

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces support for running interactive Apache Spark sessions with your corporate identities through trusted identity propagation. These Spark interactive sessions are available using Amazon EMR, Amazon EMR Serverless, and AWS Glue. Enterprises with their workforce corporate identity provider (IdP) integrated with AWS IAM Identity Center can now use their IAM Identity Center user and group identity seamlessly with SageMaker Unified Studio to access AWS Glue Data Catalog databases and tables. Administrators of AWS services can use trusted identity propagation in IAM Identity Center to grant permissions based on user attributes, such as user ID or group…

Today, we are excited to share that the SecureBERT 2.0 model is available on HuggingFace and GitHub with an accompanying research paper. This release marks a significant milestone, building on the already widely adopted SecureBERT model to unlock even more advanced cybersecurity applications. Just see this unparalleled performance across real-world tasks: In 2022, the first SecureBERT model was introduced by Ehsan and a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and UNC Charlotte as a pioneering language model designed specifically for the cybersecurity domain. It bridged the gap between general-purpose NLP models like BERT and the specialized needs of cybersecurity…

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of £200,000 (US $260,000) against a sole trader who sent almost one million spam text messages to people across the country – many of whom were already struggling with debt.According to an ICO press release, Bharat Singh Chand of Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, was behind an operation that used a “SIM farm” – capable of sending thousands of texts in quick succession – promoting “debt solutions” and “energy-saving grants.”The ICO says that the spam campaign targeted people “at greater risk of harm,” particularly those facing financial hardship. Many of the spam…

Under the blistering sun of the Sahara, a tiny set of paws crosses the dunes—leaving almost no trace behind. This is the sand cat (Felismargarita), the only true desert-dwelling feline on Earth. Small, secretive, and perfectly adapted to extremes, it thrives where few mammals can. Here are seven facts that reveal why the sand cat remains one of nature’s most remarkable survivors. Sand Cat Appearance and Lifestyle With its plush, sand-colored coat and oversized ears, the sand cat looks deceptively cute—but every feature has a purpose.Adults measure about 40–50 cm (16–20 inches) long, with tails adding another 25–30 cm. Their…

Learn how to build a very simple file upload API server using Vapor 4 and URLSession upload task on the client side. A simple file upload server written in SwiftFor this simple file upload tutorial we’ll only use the Vapor Swift package as a dependency. 📦// swift-tools-version:5.3 import PackageDescription let package = Package( name: “myProject”, platforms: [ .macOS(.v10_15) ], dependencies: [ .package(url: ” from: “4.35.0”), ], targets: [ .target( name: “App”, dependencies: [ .product(name: “Vapor”, package: “vapor”), ], swiftSettings: [ .unsafeFlags([“-cross-module-optimization”], .when(configuration: .release)) ] ), .target(name: “Run”, dependencies: [.target(name: “App”)]), .testTarget(name: “AppTests”, dependencies: [ .target(name: “App”), .product(name: “XCTVapor”, package: “vapor”),…

– Advertisement -India needs to be cognisant of the challenges that smart cities across the world have faced in terms of the deluge of cyber-attacks affecting the availability of smart city infrastructure Internet of things (IoT) provides significant benefits but it comes along with associated cyber risks. Therefore, it is vital to have them function in a secure atmosphere to realise all the benefits, said a latest report by FICCI-KPMG in India.- Advertisement – The report titled – Cybersecurity in Smart Cities, deliberates upon the possible challenges that major government agencies and stakeholders need to make sure are factored in,…

The Galaxy S26 Ultra is the next big thing on the horizon, but its pre-order and early sales figures face real risks. Samsung only has itself to blame.As per rumors, the maxed-out flagship could arrive with either the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, or the Exynos 2600, depending on the market it’s going to be sold in.In recent years, Galaxy S Ultra models traditionally have arrived with Snapdragon silicon on board. This made people really happy, since Exynos chipsets struggled against their Snapdragon counterparts in terms of raw power, efficiency and cooling.Now, Samsung may have a really cool and…

ATLAS researchers have provided compelling evidence for off-shell Higgs boson production with vastly increased confidence A proton-proton collision as seen by the Atlas detector (Courtesy: CERN) First proposed in 1964, the Higgs boson plays a key role in explaining why many elementary particles of the Standard Model have a rest mass. Many decades later the Higgs boson was observed in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), confirming the decades old prediction.   This discovery made headline news at the time and, since then, the two collaborations have been performing a series of measurements to…