Busted: 'We Buy Ugly Houses' franchise owner to plead guilty in $40 million fraud scheme
The former operator of one of the largest HomeVestors of America franchises has agreed to plead guilty to federal wire fraud in connection with a sprawling Ponzi scheme targeting people who believed they were investing in his real estate empire.Federal prosecutors in Texas identified 80 victims defr
How SMS Pro Professional Empowers MROs to Conquer New Regulatory Challenges
SMS Pro Professional Conquers MROs New Regulatory ChallengesAs Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) organizations face stricter FAA, ICAO, EASA, and Transport Canada regulations in 2025, compliance is no longer optional—it's critical.Whether you're a small MRO with a single hangar or a large netw
SpeakStream: Streaming Text-to-Speech with Interleaved Data
With the increasing integration of speech front-ends and large language models (LLM),there is a need to explore architectures that integrate these modalities.While end-to-end models have been explored extensively, cascaded models that stream outputs from LLMs to TTS seem to be oddly under-explored,
93% Of All Bitcoin Is Already Mined - Here's What That Means...
所有比特币中有93%已经被开采了 - 这是什么意思...由Bradley Peak通过Bitcoinmagazine.com撰写,剩下的比特币要挖掘多少?比特币的总供应量是2100万BTC的,这是一个固定的上限,如果没有达成共识,则无法更改该协议。该有限的上限在协议级别执行,是比特币的价值主张作为通缩资产的核心。根据2025年5月,已开采了约1960万比特币,占总供应总额的93.3%。这留下了大约140万个BTC,剩余的硬币将非常缓慢地挖掘。这种不均匀分配的原因是比特币的指数发行时间表,受称为“减半的事件”的约束。当比特币在2009年推出时,Block奖励为50 BTC。每210,000个街区
Please Don’t Use AI as Your Expert Witness
我真诚地喜欢大型语言模型,用于集思广益和研究。但是我们需要真正清楚某些事情:大型语言模型无法权衡人类所做的证据或原因,因此您不应将AI响应作为一个合理的结论来加强您的论点。Large语言模型根据语言模式的频率和意见的普遍性来计算响应,而意见的普遍性 - 尤其是关于有意义的话题,与实际真理无关。如果您喂养支持特定职位的LLM文章,并要求它基于它们来制作回应,它将反映出该输入,从本质上回荡您策划的叙述。这种选择性的喂养可以创建一种回声室,在该室中,输出感觉具有权威性,但只是所提供的数据的快照,而不是更广泛的事实。毫无疑问,LLMS在研究和迅速浏览信息方面表现出色,例如综合了有关数字素养的讨论趋势或
Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Housing and Urban Development
GAO发现了2024年6月,GAO确定了住房和城市发展部(HUD)的11个优先建议。从那以后,HUD实施了其中两个建议。首先,HUD实施了CARE(COC)时间点计数方法数据的质量保证检查。具体而言,HUD评估了COCS的数据方法论提交的年度变化,并检查是否触发了任何验证标志。其次,HUD制定并实施了一项隐私风险管理策略,以确保符合联邦隐私要求并保护个人信息HUD收集。根据2025年5月,GAO尚未确定HUD的任何其他优先建议。 The nine priority recommendations involve the following areas: Reducing fraud risk
Vitamin D Supplements May Slow Process Linked To Aging, New Study Says
维生素D补充剂可能会减慢与衰老有关的过程,杰克·菲利普斯(Jack Phillips)通过《时报》(Epoch Times)(强调我们的)进行了新的研究,周四发表的一项研究发现,较高的维生素D摄入量的人可能会减慢与衰老相关的过程。 Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesIn a paper released by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on May 22, Mass General Brigham and the Medical College of Georgia researchers looked at r
News Wrap: Ukraine and Russia exchange hundreds of POWs
In our news wrap Saturday, Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners hours after a large-scale Russian attack on Kyiv, dozens of staff members have been removed from Trump’s National Security Council, the U.S. measles outbreak passed 1,000 confirmed cases, tennis star Novak Djokovic won his
No Evidence of Effects of Testosterone on Economic Preferences
From Tyler Cowen."There is conflicting evidence on whether testosterone affects economic preferences such as risk taking, fairness and altruism, with the evidence suggesting significant effects coming from correlational studies or small underpowered testosterone administration studies. To credibly t
ICE: "Annual home price growth nationally slowed to 1.6% in May"
ICE房价指数(HPI)是重复销售指数。 ICE报告了重复销售的中位价格变化。从ICE(洲际交换):全国的年度房价增长到5月的年度速度从4月的2%速度减速至1.6%,因为在日晒中开始的库存盈余开始。 declines increased from 9 to 23 by mid-May, with a majority (9) of the newcomers located in the West • Those markets include: Denver (-1.6%), San Francisco and Stockton, Calif. (-1.5%), Phoenix (-1.2%
SPD: Sync-Point Drop for Efficient Tensor Parallelism of Large Language Models
随着Largelanguage模型(LLM)规模的快速扩展,使跨多个计算单元的有效分布推理变得越来越重要。但是,来自流行的分布式促进技术(例如张量并行主义)的沟通开销构成了实现可伸缩性和低潜伏期的重大挑战。因此,我们引入了一种新颖的技术,同步点降(SPD),以通过选择性地降低注意力输出的同步性来减少张量并行性中的通信开销。详细说明,我们首先提出了一个……
Batesian Mimicry Converges Towards Inaccuracy in Myrmecomorphic Spiders
batesian模拟物在Myrmecomorphic spidersabstractbatesian模仿中收敛于不准确性,这是由捕食驱动的收敛进化的令人印象深刻的例子。但是,尽管有强大的选择压力,但许多模仿仅表现出色的模型的观察是明显的悖论。 Here, we tested the ‘perfecting hypothesis’, that posits that inaccurate mimicry may represent a transitional stage at the macro-evolutionary scale by performing the hereto large
David Sacks' Lieutenant Explains The Real Reason Why Trump's AI Deal With UAE Is A Yuge Win For AmericaSriram Krishnan, Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, joined the Monday edition of TBPN to explain why the U.S.-UAE AI Partnership is a strategic victory for the United Sta
Coinbase Data Leak Could Put Users In Physical Danger; TechCrunch Founder
共插入数据泄漏可能会使用户处于身体危险中; TechCrunch FounderAuthored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com,A recent data breach at crypto exchange Coinbase has raised concerns about user safety after hackers gained access to sensitive information, including home addresses.Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurr
One in four pupils in England ‘disengage’ when they move to secondary, report finds
New study found a drop in enjoyment, trust and feelings of safety after year 7 and a largely positive primary experienceOne in four pupils in England “disengage” when they move up to secondary school, with enjoyment, trust and a sense of feeling safe declining sharply, according to a new report.Afte
US Leading Economic Indicators Tumble Most In Over 2 Years
US Leading Economic Indicators Tumble Most In Over 2 YearsSince December's Trump-optimism-driven surge in Leading Economic Indicators (the first since last February), The Conference Board's headline index has decelerated rapidly with April data released today plunging 1.0% MoM - the biggest drop sin
Israel Allows Aid Into Gaza As WHO Warns 500,000 On Brink Of Starvation
以色列允许加沙的援助,因为谁警告500,000,在饥饿的人的边缘对加沙地带的人道主义援助进行了近三个月的封锁,这是哈马斯和犯罪分子一直在拦截和偷窃援助的情况。 three-month blockade that has depleted humanitarian supplies in the enclave as the military expands its operations there."Pressure has been coming from Washington and international organizations for the ban on aid to be
Boeing Scores Largest-Ever Order As Dealmaking Trump Tours Gulf States
波音的得分最大,随着特朗普巡回演出,海湾国家总统特朗普的海湾巡回赛开始于周二开始,随着美国对叙利亚的长期制裁以及从沙特阿拉伯对美国经济投资的大量6000亿美元的投资协议。这次访问迅速导致了其他投资,包括美国芯片制造商Nvidia和AMD之间的数十亿美元的AI交易与Lumain,这是由沙特阿拉伯公共投资基金支持的新成立的人工智能公司。周三,势头在卡塔尔继续进行,特朗普在那里揭示了波音公司有史以来最大的宽体飞机订单。 Faisal Al-Mudahka, editor-in-chief of the Gulf Times, described Qatar Airways' massive purc