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Forecasting the FIFA World Cup has exploded into the biggest market in prediction platforms. One tournament-winner pool on Polymarket alone carries $2 billion in wagers, while Kalshi runs 48 different markets on the same question and earns the lion’s share of industry fees. The two platforms share a similar view on the football action, but they divide revenue in very different ways. BeInCrypto’s Dune Analytics dashboards across three venues show volume, fees, and remaining crypto bets clearly broken out. Sports Drove a Record-setting May for Prediction Platforms Per Binance Research figures, prediction platforms recorded $31.2 billion in trading during May,…

Chinese state-sponsored hackers infiltrated an organization’s authentication infrastructure and remained hidden for 10 years, gaining complete oversight of all administrative actions. Referred to as “Operation Highland,” the long-term attack has been linked to the Velvet Ant cyberespionage group, which initially exploited exposed internet-connected systems before moving into an internal network with no outward-facing connectivity. Members of the Velvet Ant hacking collective penetrated a major organization’s air-gapped critical infrastructure network and carried out cyber-espionage activities over a 10-year period. The campaign, named “Operation Highland” by analysts at Sygnia who uncovered it, started in 2016. It focused on exploiting internet-accessible systems before…

The Small Business Administration (SBA) is broadening the focus of its oversight of its socio-economic contracting programs. This new phase involves a comprehensive review of the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) program. In a communication distributed earlier this week, the SBA notified economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses that they must complete a questionnaire and submit their personal and business tax returns for the past three years, with a June 30 deadline. “In accordance with federal regulations outlined in 13 C.F.R. § 127.400, the SBA is undertaking a formal program review to reconfirm that your company still satisfies the criteria for the…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETStay connected with ZDNET: Add us as a trusted source on Google.Key points from ZDNETWearables collect tons of health data, but much of it isn’t useful to doctors.The current healthcare model, designed for occasional visits, can’t easily handle continuous data streams.Some physicians believe AI might offer a solution to this challenge.Dr. David Kao, a heart specialist, is no stranger to patients arriving at appointments with reams of data from their wearable devices.On a Wednesday morning in late May, a patient brought her smart band stats to show him — just like many before her.”About 70% of…

TL;DR I created a dataset Q&A tool and placed too much faith in a RAG response that was barely accurate. I evaluated this across 7 different query types and 5 context sizes over 100,000 data rows. Some query types abandoned RAG altogether. I Trusted the Wrong Number Last month I was deep into developing a new feature for EmiTechLogic. Learners can now upload their own messy CSV files and ask questions in plain English about their data. It seemed like the perfect use case for RAG, so I went all in — embeddings, retrieval, polished responses. The initial demos looked…

Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2.7-Code this week. It’s a specialized coding and agentic model. The model weights are available on Hugging Face under a Modified MIT license. You can also access it via the Kimi API and Kimi Code. K2.7-Code is built for complex, long-running software engineering tasks rather than casual conversation. It can plan, make edits, execute tools, and debug through multiple steps. Moonshot has paired the model with a subscription-based coding platform. Kimi K2.7-Code K2.7-Code uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It has 1 trillion total parameters but only activates 32 billion per token. The setup includes 384 experts, with…

Federal agencies are actively pursuing the Trump administration’s government-wide initiative to cut down on .gov websites that are considered “confusing” or redundant. The Department of Commerce, in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget, is working to slash its number of websites by almost half. Brian Epley, the department’s chief information officer, explained at an industry conference on Thursday that the goal is to make it simpler for visitors to find the information and services offered by Commerce and its sub-agencies. “This public-facing portal must be intuitive, straightforward, and it must successfully provide the services that we are designed…

Everlywell / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways At-home DNA and health tests may not be covered under HIPAA protectionsYour genetic data can put both you and your family members at risk, including for insurance discriminationFDA oversight levels and medical follow-up support differ significantly between companiesThe testing kit arrives, and it’s surprisingly compact.You pull it from your mailbox and set it on the cheerful, color-designed package on your kitchen counter.Swab, spit, or do a quick finger-prick. Drop it in the mail. Soon, you’ll receive insights into your body: hormone…

Edge AI software layer diagram. Source: Numurus Before Windows, only computer scientists and skilled engineers could truly do much with a computer. That all changed because of Windows. Windows provided a user interface, a collection of built-in apps, and the ability to use hardware with plug-and-play ease. An identical transformation is presently taking place in the world of robotics. I recall when the initial personal computers were released, during my first year as a college student studying to be a robotics engineer. I was so excited. These machines were so fast and powerful, and they had the potential to solve…