Author: Carter

Most small business owners want to stay on top of tax and labor rules, yet many lack a dedicated HR manager or payroll specialist to handle the details. By the time an issue comes to light, it may have been quietly building for months.Julie Loe didn’t see the signs until tax notices started piling up. She runs Pediatrics Physical Therapy Services in Morro Bay, California – a small clinic focused on caring for children. Her payroll provider was supposed to take care of all the filings, so the flood of official letters made no sense.By the time she connected the…

Quick Summary OpenAI’s “Nerdy” mode started using goblin metaphors as a reward, which spread the quirk across all GPT versions via reinforcement learning. References to goblins in GPT-5.4’s Nerdy mode skyrocketed by 3,881% compared to GPT-5.2, leading to an internal probe and an urgent system prompt update. The company fixed it by adding “never talk about goblins” to a developer prompt—highlighting why patching system prompts is faster but carries higher risks than full retraining. If you’ve lately asked ChatGPT for programming assistance and it responded by likening your code error to a “mischievous little gremlin,” rest assured it wasn’t a…

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…