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Year: 2024

Moonveil Secures $9 Million in Extended Pre-Series A Financing

Key learning points Moonveil has raised a total of $9 million in funding following a Pre-Series A round. The funding will go towards infrastructure development and community building for Moonveil’s web3 gaming platform. share this article Layer-2 gaming ecosystem Moonveil…

Multi-GPU Tuning for Llama 3.1 70B with FSDP and QLoRA

What you can do with just 2x24GB GPUs and lots of CPU RAM Read more on Towards Data Science »

Bitcoin Breaks $59,800 as $212 Million in Liquidations Spook Traders

The crypto economy has seen a 5.6% boost in the past 24 hours, hitting $2.07 trillion on Thursday. Bitcoin has skyrocketed past the $59,800 mark, while Ethereum has surpassed $2,500 per coin. This meteoric climb on August 8 has resulted…

New phishing scam uses Google Drawings and shortened WhatsApp links

Aug 08, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that leverages Google Drawings and shortened links generated via WhatsApp to evade detection and trick users into clicking on fake links intended to steal…

Spatial Interpolation in Python

Using the Inverse Distance Weighting Method to Infer Missing Spatial Data Read more on Towards Data Science »

U.K. Kids’ Content Distributor Cake To Acquire Competing Distributor Jetpack

The two London-based companies distribute over 3,500 half-hours of entertainment content.

Russia to legalize crypto mining from November 1, 2024

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Risks of Windows Downgrade attacks exposing patched systems to old vulnerabilities

Aug 08, 2024Ravie LakshmananWindows Security / Vulnerability Microsoft says it is developing security updates to close two vulnerabilities in the law. According to Microsoft, these vulnerabilities could be exploited to perform downgrade attacks on the Windows update architecture, replacing current…

How to use machine learning to inform design decisions and make predictions

An introductory guide and use case for applied data science Read more on Towards Data Science »