January 7, 2025

AN UPDATE, January 7th, 2025: Why My Blog Is On Hold (And Why I Am Not Making A Final Decision Until Later this Year)

A sampling of today’s news headlines from Google News. Shit is gettin’ WILD, y’all. Today, I wrote the following post on the new Second Life social media platform, Primfeed (which you can currently only read if you already have an account on Primfeed, as I have not yet chosen to make my Primfeed profile and posts publicly viewable): With all the batshit-crazy political news coming out of the U.S. today making me feel anxious and

Ryan Schultz January 7, 2025

Software

In the Speculative Future, a Little Bitcoin Is Enough to Pay Any Debt | HackerNoon

Where exactly is Bitcoin’s value? Since it has no intrinsic value like metals or foodstuffs. After some thought, I concluded that it isn’t in simply transacting bitcoins, as reported here by Bitcoin Magazine. Take a deep breath. Hold your hats. This is a speeding speculative spaceship. Look – the USD is transacted worldwide over more than any other currency, physically and digitally. But look – we’re all digging deeper into debt the more we transact

M-Marvin Ken January 7, 2025

Software

CyTwist Launches Advanced Security Solution To identify AI-Driven Cyber Threats in minutes | HackerNoon

Ramat Gan, Israel, January 7th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–CyTwist, a leader in advanced next-generation threat detection solutions, has launched its patented detection engine to combat the insidious rise of AI-generated malware. The cybersecurity landscape is evolving as attackers harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop advanced and evasive threats. The rise of AI-generated malware and AI-enhanced cyberattacks has escalated the threat landscape, leaving traditional defenses struggling to keep up. Businesses now face the critical challenge of

CyberNewswire January 7, 2025

R0AR NFT Public Sale Live: 2,700 Minted On First Day As DeFi-NFT Narrative Gains Traction | HackerNoon

Georgetown, Saint Vincent & The Grenadines, January 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–The Executive R0AR Society (ERS) NFT public sale launched yesterday, with over 2,700 tokens sold. The interest in the Ethereum-based tokens is attributed to the utility features offered to token holders. The team envisions the NFTs as a key component of the evolving R0AR DeFi ecosystem, which is being developed with a focus on community involvement. The reason for this community-centric approach comes from the team’s firm

Chainwire January 7, 2025

Crypto Adoption in 2024: Trends and What’s Coming in 2025 | HackerNoon

We can say 2024 was a good year for the cryptocurrency market, even if not everything was good for the industry. New regulations worldwide are being enforced, providing much-needed legal clarity in numerous jurisdictions. Besides, adoption is booming—businesses, governments, and even skeptics are jumping on board. The whole market reached new records. But as the industry grows, so do the risks, with crypto thefts hitting record highs too. Let’s check what the year 2024 has

Obyte January 7, 2025

Meta proposes new scalable memory layers that improve knowledge, reduce hallucinations

According to Meta, memory layers may be the the answer to LLM hallucinations as they don’t require huge compute resources at inference time.Read More

Ben Dickson January 7, 2025

Robotics

NVIDIA unveils Omniverse upgrades, Cosmos foundation model, and more at CES – The Robot Report

Choreographed integration of human workers, robotic and agentic systems, and equipment in a facility digital twin. | Source: Accenture, KION Group. NVIDIA Corp.’s CEO Jensen Huang made a slew of announcements yesterday at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. They included the Mega Omniverse blueprint for building industrial robot fleet digital twins, adding generative physical AI to Omniverse, launching the Cosmos World Foundation Model platform, and releasing updates to its Isaac platform. These announcements showed how

The Robot Report Staff January 7, 2025

Robotics

Symbotic names robotics pioneer James Kuffner CTO

New Symbotic CTO James Kuffner. Credit: Toyota James Kuffner, a pioneer in robotics, has been named chief technology officer at Symbotic Inc., a leading developer of warehouse robots. Kuffner is replacing former CTO George Dramalis, who retired on Jan. 1, 2025. Kuffner will be responsible for advancing the company’s technologies and long-term growth. “James has more than 30 years of leadership experience in robotics,” stated Rick Cohen, chairman and CEO of Symbotic. “He has helped

Steve Crowe January 7, 2025

How To Learn Math for Machine Learning, Fast

Even with zero math background Marina Wyss – Gratitude Driven · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 10 min read · 5 days ago — Photo by Antoine Dautry on Unsplash Do you want to become a Data Scientist or machine learning engineer, but you feel intimidated by all the math involved? I get it. I’ve been there. I dropped out of High School after 10th grade, so I never learned any math beyond

Marina Wyss - Gratitude Driven January 7, 2025

Lotte Group taps Arbitrum for Web3 entertainment experiences

Lotte Group, a big five conglomerate in South Korea, said at CES 2025 that it has picked the Arbitrum blockchain for its Lotte Caliverse.Read More

Dean Takahashi January 7, 2025