Introduction & Overview Ollama is one of the most popular open-source projects for running AI Models, with over 70k stars on GitHub and hundreds of thousands of monthly pulls on Docker Hub. Inspired by Docker, Ollama aims to simplify the process of packaging and deploying AI models. Wiz Research…

The collapse didn’t happen the way people expected. It was more like the Hemingway character who said when he went bankrupt that it happened “two ways, gradually, then suddenly.” Disasters were happening but there was sufficient time between them that people were able to separate them in their…

I’ve been doing a lot of swimming over the past few weeks and I’ve regularly been hitting some new personal milestones over the past year. Each milestone brings with in a huge high, an endorphin rush, a personal satisfaction and, honestly, I walk around for the day feeling like a fucking god (I’m…

We have Mark Dowd on, founder of Aziumuth Security and one of the authors of The Art of Software Security Assessment, to talk about the market for zero day vulnerabilities, and how mitigations affect monetizing offensive security work. Links: Azimuth Security Vigilant Labs Mark’s BlueHat Keynote…

ByLaura Begley Bloom, Senior Contributor. Are you wondering how to move out of the U.S.? You’re not alone—according to a recent survey, one in three Americans would leave the U.S. if they could. A new company called Expatsi is helping Americans move abroad and live their dream life. Expatsi was…

The researchers' approach involves two main innovations: first, they created a custom LLM and constrained it to use only ternary values (-1, 0, 1) instead of traditional floating-point numbers, which

Musk's SpaceX to destroy retired space station 27 June 2024 Jonathan AmosScience correspondent NASA The space station has been permanently crewed since 2000 Nasa has selected Elon Musk's SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life. The California-based company…

02.47 EDT Introduction: Yen at 38-year low against the dollar Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. Pressure is piling on Japan’s

Wildfires ravaging Arctic Circle - EU monitor 27 June 2024 Malu CursinoBBC News Getty Images The last time Sakha, Russia, experienced wildfires was in 2021 Wildfires are once again ravaging the Arctic Circle, the EU's climate change monitor - Copernicus - has reported. It is the third time in the…

A newly identified tipping point for the loss of ice sheets in Antarctica and elsewhere could mean future sea level rise is significantly higher than current projections. A new study has examined how warming seawater intrudes between coastal ice sheets and the ground they rest on. The warm water…

Return to office Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. Samuel Axon – Jun 20, 2024 3:44 pm | 608 Signage outside a Dell campus. Credit: Getty Signage outside a Dell campus. Credit: Getty…

The Boston Celtics beat the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Monday night to claim a record 18th NBA title, one more than their old rivals the Lakers. “You have very few chances in life to be great … you’ve got to take the bull by the horns and you’ve got to own it, and our guys owned it,” said the…

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it had advised drugmakers to update the Covid vaccines to target the KP.2 strain, a descendant of the highly contagious JN.1 variant that began circulati

Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and

There is not enough testing for bird flu among people and animals in the US, says Dr Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – but he is wary o

The climate cost of the first two years of Russia’s war on Ukraine was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency in addition to the mounting death toll and widespread destruction, research reveals. Russia’s…

The enormous loss of Palestinian life attendant to the Israeli military’s 8 June rescue of four hostages held by Hamas cries out for investigation. Hamas’s abduction and detention of these four civilians was a clear war crime, but that does not exempt the Israeli military from the duty to comply…

Samuel Alito, the US supreme justice at the center of a flag controversy that has called his impartiality into question, has said one side of the US’s bitter left v right ideological conflicts has to

South Korea’s military has said it fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border this week, amid rising tensions after Pyongyang sent rubbish-carrying balloons into the South and Seoul retaliated with a loudspeaker propaganda campaign. “Some North Korean soldiers working…

Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of “fundamenta

U.S. officials recently warned about pro-Russian hackers targeting poorly secured water systems around the country. While the U.S. was issuing this notice, the Russian government was advancing its own cyber measure: a final-stage bill to legalize white hat hacking. White hat hacking, sometimes…

People walk through cooling misters on June 4, 2024 in Las Vegas. Tens of millions of people from California to Texas are experiencing intense heat. New data shows that the amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has hit a new record. John Locher/AP The amount of planet-warming…

Major news and tech media that have run fossil-fuel ads were largely staying quiet after the UN’s secretary general called for governments and companies to place bans on advertisements for coal, oil and gas. “Stop taking fossil-fuel advertising,” António Guterres implored in a major speech on…

New York state took novel legislative steps on Friday to limit children’s exposure to computer algorithmic social media feeds, passing two laws to protect children from social media content and to protect their privacy. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (Safe) for Kids Act requires social media…

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has warned that the spread of artificial intelligence technology multiplies the threat of nuclear war, and that humanity is now “on a knife’s edge” as dangers to its existence coalesce. Guterres’s warning is due to be shown on a recorded video to be played…

June 7 (Reuters) - The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease

The US economy added 272,000 jobs in May, a sign the labor market remained strong amid high interest rates, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday. The number of May jobs was far higher th

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A notable chunk of people say they don't want to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in November, according to recent polling. Brendan Smialowskijim Watson/AFP via Getty Images With the November

The United Nations has added Israel to the global list of states and armed groups who have committed violations against children, according to the country’s UN envoy, Gilad Erdan. News of Israel’s inclusion on the list follows eight months of war on Gaza, in which more than 13,000 children are…

The outbreak of avian flu in US cattle herds was reported to have reached Minnesota on Thursday when the state’s board of animal health said a farmer had reported more than 40 cows with signs of fever

Serial tech and digital privacy critic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid into UnitedHealth Group's (UHG) CEO for appointing a CISO Wyden deemed "unqualified"– a decision he claims likely led to its ransom

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In January, a man living on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula died of Alaskapox. Pictured is Bear Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park on Sept. 1, 2015, in Seward, Alaska. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images