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Selecting a health plan during your working years can be confusing, but retirement adds even more layers to the decision. Once you qualify for Medicare, it’s not just about choosing a Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) plan—you also need to figure out which parts of Medicare to sign up for. Part A (which covers hospital stays) is usually a no-brainer for most retirees. If you’ve worked for ten years or more, there’s no monthly premium because you’ve already contributed through payroll taxes. Part B (covering doctor visits and outpatient services) requires more thought. It carries a monthly premium of $202.90,…

Hi r/MachineLearning! I'm in the US transit sector and recently dove headfirst into AI and ML. When I came across Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch system, I found it really fascinating. For this experiment, I reused the same transit data from a previous GPT-2 XL fine-tuning but trained an 80M-parameter model entirely from scratch. Since autoresearch is built for pretraining — not fine-tuning — I launched a standalone project instead of modifying the GPT-2 XL work. I'd really appreciate your feedback on a few things: Where did I go wrong? What stands out as interesting in these results? What should I concentrate…

A Brazilian technology company focused on defending networks against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been linked to a botnet carrying out a prolonged wave of massive DDoS strikes targeting other Brazilian internet service providers, according to KrebsOnSecurity. The company’s CEO attributes the harmful activity to a security breach and suspects it may be the work of a rival aiming to damage the firm’s reputation. An Archer AX21 router from TP-Link. Image: tp-link.com Over the past few years, cybersecurity researchers have observed a string of large-scale DDoS attacks originating in Brazil and aimed exclusively at Brazilian ISPs. Until recently, the identity…

The swift advancement of supply chain technologies is fueling significant gains in operational efficiency, inventory control, and sustainability. Among the most game-changing tools are RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, both of which empower real-time visibility and management of assets across a wide range of industries. From retail to logistics and healthcare, these technologies are merging to build smarter, better-connected supply chains. RFID has long served as the backbone of item-level tracking, while IoT solutions like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tags are rising as complementary tools that offer additional layers of context. Together, they grant organizations the…

Launchpad Build AI has released its Manufacturing Language Model to work alongside its gantry-style assembly robot, pictured here. Source: Launchpad Build AI Launchpad Build AI revealed several significant milestones today as it expands its AI capabilities for assembly automation. The company has introduced its Manufacturing Language Model, opened its U.S. headquarters in California, rebranded, and brought on senior technical leaders. Embracing the present era of AI applications, Jon Quick, CEO of Launchpad Build AI, remarked, “Physical AI isn’t just the future; it exists in the here and now. Being based in El Segundo, we are surrounded by first-class entrepreneurs, top-tier…

LG is in early-stage talks with NVIDIA focused on physical AI, data centres, and mobility. A recent meeting in Seoul between LG’s CEO Ryu Jae-cheol and NVIDIA’s Madison Huang, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Omniverse and Robotics, has crystallized the key operational requirements needed to run highly automated systems at scale.While neither company has confirmed specific investments or roadmaps, the overlap between their hardware and compute strategies reveals the enormous capital outlays required to transition autonomous systems from virtual simulations to real-world deployment.The surge in compute density demanded by increasingly sophisticated ML models creates a fundamental thermal engineering challenge.…

While more than two-thirds of human-generated TLS traffic to Cloudflare is already protected by post-quantum cryptography, the world of site-to-site networking has been a different story. For years, the IPsec community remained caught between the high bar of Internet-scale interoperability and the niche requirements of specialized hardware. That gap is now closing. Earlier this month, we announced that Cloudflare has moved its target for full post-quantum security forward to 2029, spurred by several recent advances in quantum computing. To advance that goal, we’ve made post-quantum encryption in Cloudflare IPsec generally available.Using the new IETF draft for hybrid ML-KEM (FIPS 203), we’ve…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.The global installed base of cellular-connected POS terminals is set to grow from 184 million units in 2025 to 247 million by 2029, as connectivity becomes a standard design requirement rather than an optional feature in retail infrastructure.The evolution of payment infrastructure is increasingly shaped by connectivity constraints rather than software capabilities. In fragmented retail environments—ranging from urban micro-stores to mobile service operations—the ability to deploy and operate terminals without relying on fixed-line infrastructure has become a decisive factor.In this context, cellular connectivity is no longer a premium add-on. It is becoming…

having worked on a few projects in this space, a recent discussion on abstraction reminded me just how relevant the topic still is. Picture this: you roll out an LLM-driven feature, the demo looks polished, and everyone’s thrilled. Fast-forward three weeks into production, and something fails in a way nobody anticipated. You end up spending hours buried in system logs that explain what went wrong but leave the why completely unanswered. Eventually you discover the framework quietly dropped context between steps three and four of your pipeline, forcing you to dive into someone else’s source code to figure out what…

Los Angeles, California, April 29, 2026 – RealOpen, the top platform for purchasing real estate using cryptocurrency, has announced the conclusion of its joint “Fast Moves, Fast Payments” Holiday Campaign with TRON, the premier settlement layer for stablecoin transactions. Running from November 17, 2025, through February 28, 2026, the campaign provided qualified U.S. homebuyers with rewards of up to 50,000 USDT for buying property through RealOpen using USDT on the TRON blockchain — showcasing the network’s real-world utility for everyday payments as well as larger transactions.RealOpen brings together the dependability of conventional real estate with the speed and efficiency of…