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Outdoor advertising is evolving from static images and set timetables into a flexible, data-powered system, writes Eleanor Hecks, Managing Editor at Designerly Magazine. By incorporating the Internet of Things (IoT), different out-of-home (OOH) advertising setups can now react instantly to actual conditions in the real world. As advertising requirements change, this evolution turns outdoor media into a flexible communication method that provides more accurate and trackable results. How IoT Functions in Outdoor Advertising IoT in outdoor advertising means a linked system of sensors, cameras, digital screens, and cloud-based platforms that gather and analyze live data from the surrounding environment. Through…

Launching AI agents in a local script is simple. Running them reliably in production — across teams, across restarts, with isolated environments per context — is an entirely different challenge. BerriAI, the company behind the LiteLLM AI Gateway, is now open-sourcing a purpose-built solution to that challenge: the LiteLLM Agent Platform. The platform is described as a straightforward, self-hosted infrastructure layer for running multiple agents in production. What Problem Does it Solve? To understand the value, consider what happens when you try to scale agents beyond a single process. Agents are stateful: they carry session history, tool call results, and…

I mainly communicate with my coding assistant in Chinese. However, my writing often blends languages: many technical terms feel more natural to me in English (especially those related to Python, Git, etc.), and some are even hard to translate smoothly into Chinese. Yesterday, I asked my coding assistant in Chinese: “run.py有早停吗？我在恒源云上跑，发现没有触发”, which translates to: “Does run.py include early stopping? I ran the project on a shared GPU platform, but I didn’t see early stopping activate.” As usual, I kept the filename run.py in its original English form. The model checked the code and replied like this: Image by author: Screenshot…

Terry Gerton You’re an expert in environmental policy. Let’s start there. There are many people working on climate and environmental issues these days, and many of them are focused on the science, perhaps without a full understanding of the policy machinery. Where do you see the biggest gaps between the motivated scientific community and their ability to influence policy right now? Mai Sistla Yeah, so great question. One of the biggest gaps that I have seen, especially working with scientific expertise, is thinking about how you can change policy beyond legislation. So I would say 90%, 95% of the time…

Here is the paraphrased version of the article, with the HTML structure preserved and the text rewritten for clarity and readability: The US Senate Banking Committee approved the CLARITY Act, a comprehensive crypto regulatory framework, yesterday. Following intense lobbying from the crypto industry since its introduction in 2025, the bill will now move to the full Senate for further discussion and debate. As reported by Cointelegraph, lawmakers considered over 100 proposed amendments while finalizing the bill’s language. These amendments addressed various topics, including ethical considerations, AI regulatory sandboxes, and stablecoin yield policies. However, many of these amendments were ultimately rejected.…

OpenAI has revealed that two of its employees’ devices within its corporate network were affected by the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain assault on TanStack. However, the company emphasized that no user data, production systems, or intellectual property were breached or tampered with without authorization. “As soon as we detected the malicious activity, we moved swiftly to investigate, contain, and implement measures to safeguard our systems,” OpenAI stated. “We identified patterns matching the malware’s publicly documented behavior, including unauthorized entry and credential-related data theft, within a restricted set of internal source code repositories accessible to the two affected employees.” The AI…

Tharon Green/ZDNETStay connected with ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Prime Day is making a comeback — this time in June!Initial reports from Bloomberg suggested Amazon would move its big sale event from its usual July slot to June, and in early May, Amazon officially confirmed Prime Day will return in June, though exact dates were not yet revealed.Also: How to get Amazon Prime for half off: Two ways to qualify in 2026At ZDNET, our team of experts spends countless hours testing the newest tech, gadgets, and more. Major shopping events like Prime Day matter to us because…

Training large language models on long sequences has a well-known problem: attention is expensive. The scaled dot-product attention (SDPA) at the core of every transformer scales quadratically Θ(N²) in both compute and memory with sequence length N. FlashAttention addressed this through IO-aware tiling that avoids materializing the full N×N attention matrix in high-bandwidth memory, reducing the memory footprint significantly, but the underlying Θ(N²) compute scaling remains. Researchers at Nous Research have introduced a new method called Lighthouse Attention that addresses this bottleneck specifically at pretraining time, achieving a 1.40× to 1.69× end-to-end wall-clock speedup against a cuDNN-backed SDPA baseline, with…

Terry Gerton Mike, let’s begin with you. We’re discussing glacial flooding in Alaska. That doesn’t sound like a typical Army Corps of Engineers project to me, but what’s shifted in Alaska that has made this specific issue something the federal government and the Army Corps of Engineers felt they needed to step in and tackle? Mike Records Yeah, Terry, this is a truly fascinating, demanding, and intricate problem that is precisely the kind of thing the Army Corps is uniquely equipped to jump in and handle. And I’ll just start by outlining the core issue. So these are glacial lake…

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar pros and cons Pros Excellent designGreat app supportGoogle Cast built-in Cons Slightly overpricedUncontrolled bass at loud volume Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Bose has a long history in home theater, but lately, the company has focused more on personal audio and wearable devices. Because of this shift, its home theater offerings have seen little change, with only a handful of soundbars, rear speakers, and subwoofers available.Also: Forget the soundbar: How I upgraded my TV audio with spare Bluetooth speakersEven so, Bose hasn’t forgotten its home theater roots. The new Lifestyle Ultra series…