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Social media platform X swiftly backtracked on its announcement regarding new rules for creator monetization, which had focused on payouts based on engagement from a creator’s local audience. Late Tuesday, X Head of Product Nikita Bier announced that, starting Thursday, the platform will change its policy around payouts and will give more emphasis to impressions from the poster’s region. His rationale was that the platform should disincentivize gaming the algorithm by posting about the U.S. or Japan to gain the attention of those larger audiences. “We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that…

As deployments of edge AI scale in the farming sector, continuous monitoring of edge fleets – literally in the field – becomes impractical. Autonomous machines create value when they operate without human oversight and request attention only when needed.Machines like those from Burro move loads and travel between working areas in vineyards and farms. Their usefulness rests on their ability to move and operate inside software-defined boundaries, and to signal exceptions reliably.Operators can’t track the movement of every machine, despite the best efforts of dashboard designers. Similarly impractical is watching a dozen or a hundred live video feeds, even when…

In September 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a state-sponsored threat actor used an AI coding agent to execute an autonomous cyber espionage campaign against 30 global targets. The AI handled 80-90% of tactical operations on its own, performing reconnaissance, writing exploit code, and attempting lateral movement at machine speed. This incident is worrying, but there’s a scenario that should concern security teams even more: an attacker who doesn’t need to run through the kill chain at all, because they’ve compromised an AI agent that already lives inside your environment. One that already has the access, the permissions, and a legitimate reason…

Lego made significant progress in 2025 toward its goal of reducing virgin oil-based plastic resin in its toys: 52 percent of the materials it bought to make its iconic bricks came from renewable or recycled sources last year, compared with 33 percent in 2024. That doesn’t mean half of every Lego piece contains renewable or recycled materials. The company uses an accounting method called “mass balance” to substantiate its claims. That means that the raw supplies that Lego buys to make its products contain a mix of plastics from fossil fuels, and recycled and bio-based sources.  Other prominent companies that…

PINE64 community manager Camden, also known as “CarbonatedCaffeine” and “Caffeine,” has announced an incoming new wearable from the open hardware specialist — along with the less welcome news that the rising price of memory means production of the company’s tablets and phones has been halted.”The new device is an improvement on the original with an AMOLED display, GPS, a custom chip, a digital crown which also features an extra button and new sensors including a blood oxygen sensor,” Camden writes of the PineTime Pro, an upgraded successor to the original PineTime smartwatch. “Power to individual components can be cut, unlike…

Spring is a great time to pick up the latest headphone deals, as many retailers launch big sales on a wide range of devices across the price spectrum. As one example, Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is live this week, and it includes 46% off the price of the Sony WH-CH720N noise-cancelling headphones.These are a more affordable pair of ANC-backed headphones than the Sony WH-1000XM6, ringing in at nearly half the price (before the discount). The wireless headphones feature a lightweight, comfortable and foldable design, a long battery life, and various audio-enhancement and customization features that make them live up to…

An international team of astronomers, led by a PhD student at University of Galway, have made the groundbreaking discovery of a second planet in the same system where they discovered another planet last year. Detected at an early stage of formation in the disc around a young star, the young planet named WISPIT 2c is estimated to be about 5 million years-old and most likely ten times the mass of Jupiter. The star, WISPIT 2 is located in the constellation of the Eagle, a prominent equatorial constellation visible in the summer northern hemisphere (July-November) along the Milky Way. The study…

Airtel Africa has announced the successful testing of data and messaging services in partnership with SpaceX using Starlink Mobile. The trial focused on enabling connectivity in areas where terrestrial mobile networks had no signal, marking a key step towards expanding coverage beyond traditional network infrastructure.4G Smartphones Connect Directly to SatellitesAccording to Airtel Africa, standard 4G smartphones were able to seamlessly connect to Starlink’s satellite constellation during the test phase. The satellites, numbering over 650, helped bridge connectivity gaps in locations that are typically difficult to serve through conventional mobile networks.The company highlighted that this testing showed how connectivity can be…

Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and impacted humans, a step toward safer and more trustworthy AI. To gain a comprehensive understanding, we can analyze these systems through different lenses: feature attribution, which isolates the specific input features driving a prediction (Lundberg & Lee, 2017; Ribeiro et al., 2022); data attribution, which links model behaviors to influential training examples (Koh & Liang, 2017; Ilyas et al., 2022); and mechanistic interpretability, which dissects…

There are a lot of things that we have talked about in Smart Data Collective over the years. One of them has been the sudden popularity of data science education.Amstat News reports that the number of students studying data science and related fields continues to rise, with master’s degrees in biostatistics increasing 23% over 2022 to 1,130. There are also increases in biostatistics PhDs by 4% to 284 and bachelor’s degrees from 50 to 84, while statistics bachelor’s degrees reached 5,463 and PhDs climbed 5% to 568, showing strong academic interest. Keep reading to learn more.How Warm-Ups Prepare Data Science…