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Drones have been making headlines everywhere lately. From the Ukraine conflict to the Winter Olympics in Italy, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have captured widespread attention.Drones are compact, lightweight aircraft that use either a fixed wing or multiple rotors and can be controlled remotely or programmed to fly autonomously. While some models run on gas engines, most are powered by batteries and electric motors. Militaries widely rely on these aircraft for aerial intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, surveillance, as well as for executing precision strikes against targets. Beyond their strategic military roles, drones are finding growing use in civilian sectors, including agricultural monitoring,…

If you’ve ever run reinforcement learning (RL) post-training on a language model — whether for math reasoning, code generation, or any task you can verify automatically — you’ve likely found yourself watching a progress bar crawl along while your GPU cluster chews through rollout generation. Now, a team of NVIDIA researchers has come up with a clean solution: they’ve woven speculative decoding directly into the RL training loop itself, and they’ve done it without altering the target model’s output distribution in any way. The research team embedded speculative decoding straight into NeMo RL v0.6.0 using a vLLM backend, achieving lossless…

On stage, co-founder and CEO JP Richardson began by addressing the company’s failed attempt to go public on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2024. Exodus had flown 130 employees, friends, and family to Manhattan, only to be informed the night before the planned listing that regulators had blocked it. Richardson characterized the setback as a regulatory rule change made at “the 11th hour,” which left a room full of supporters in shock and pushed the company back into private ownership—despite what he described as full compliance with all requirements. The ordeal finally concluded months later, following the U.S.…

Richard Beutel, a senior researcher at the Baroni Center for Government Contracting, explains how the FAS reorganization will impact federal buying. By all outward appearances, the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service has long served as the government’s backbone — managing schedules, overseeing contracts, and keeping procurement operations running smoothly. But the newly unveiled “FAS 2.0” reorganization, expected to launch the week of May 4, signals something far more ambitious: a deliberate move away from simple contract administration toward centralized, portfolio-level oversight of how the federal government purchases technology. This isn’t just a reshuffling of roles. It’s a fundamental redefinition…

Image by Editor   # Introduction  Voice-enabled applications are everywhere, from virtual assistants to customer service chatbots. But for developers, building natural-sounding speech into apps has often meant relying on expensive cloud APIs or dealing with robotic, unnatural voices. Mistral AI aims to change that with Voxtral TTS. It is a powerful, open-weight text-to-speech (TTS) model that you can run on your own hardware. Released on March 26, 2026, this 4-billion-parameter model generates human-like speech in nine languages and adapts to a new voice from as little as three seconds of reference audio. In this Voxtral TTS tutorial, you will learn…

Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 11 is receiving a refreshed, modern Run dialog featuring dark mode support and improved speed in the latest preview build 26300.8346. The Run dialog has been a part of Windows since the Windows 95 days, and it remains a go-to tool for many advanced users on a daily basis. Simply press Win + R, type in a command, open a file path, launch an application, or navigate to a location instantly without needing to open File Explorer first. With this update, Microsoft aims to give Run a contemporary look while preserving its core functionality.…

pros and cons Pros Clean, well-built, and easy to carry.Backed by a large, active community of users and developers.Priced very affordably. Cons Can be challenging to learn at first.Not as powerful or versatile as the Raspberry Pi or Flipper Zero. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Bring up the idea of a computer small enough to fit in your pocket, and most people tend to react in one of two ways:They either say, “Oh, like a Raspberry Pi!” Or they respond, “Ah, more like a Flipper Zero!”Also: The Flipper One may be the ultimate Linux PC for…

In Episode 242 of The Robot Report Podcast, Neal Hansch—managing partner and CEO of Silicon Foundry—joins the show to discuss how startups can effectively engage with large enterprises, the rapidly evolving world of physical AI and robotics, and how broader economic trends are shaping innovation strategies. Neal Hansch, CEO, Silicon Foundry. With over 25 years of experience in venture capital, corporate development, and tech operations, Hansch advises Fortune 2,000 companies on driving innovation. His background includes leadership roles in investment, emerging markets, and M&A at firms such as Rustic Canyon Partners, MEST, and Macromedia. A graduate of Duke University and…

Image by Editor # Introduction Let’s face it: the clean, textbook version of data science rarely holds up in practice. We learn methods using perfectly curated, normally distributed data, but real-world projects throw us curveballs — extreme outliers, heavily skewed distributions, and wildly uneven variances. In an earlier piece on building an exploratory data analysis (EDA) pipeline with Pingouin, we saw how statistical tests can flag when data breaks key assumptions like normality or homoscedasticity. But what happens when those tests come back failed? Discarding the data isn’t the answer — going robust is. This article walks you through the…

As cloud workloads grow more autonomous and AI systems process increasingly sensitive data, trust needs to be baked directly into the underlying infrastructure. Azure Integrated HSM embeds hardware-level key protection natively within Azure, stretching cryptographic trust from the chip itself all the way up to running services through a design that is both verifiable and transparent. Cloud workloads are becoming more autonomous, and AI systems are handling data that is more critical than ever. Because of this, trust must be woven into infrastructure at every level. At Microsoft, security is built into the very foundation of our cloud platform, starting…