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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…

, you will learn what Recursive Language Models (RLMs) are, why they are winning all the long-context benchmarks right now, and understand how they are different from existing agentic harness designs! And we are going to learn it by magnifying one simple case study. I have spent a decent chunk of last month implementing RLMs, running benchmarks, and producing a 50-minute tutorial video on it. Throughout the process, I responded to 100+ questions on YouTube and X about RLMs. This article is a summary of what I learned answering those questions, and the specific nuances about RLMs that made me…

Bitcoin (BTC) continued its decline into Saturday. Iran’s warning to impose tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz continued to weigh on global risk assets. The two-day selloff has now wiped out more than $80 billion in cryptocurrency market value. The leading cryptocurrency traded around $77,947 after falling below $78,000. Leveraged long positions bore the brunt of approximately $620 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours. Profit-Taking Following the CLARITY Vote Triggered the Decline Saturday’s drop follows a sharper fall earlier in the week. The Senate Banking Committee approved the CLARITY Act on Wednesday by a 15-9…

A critical security flaw lurking in the NGINX open-source web server for nearly two decades has been uncovered by an autonomous scanning system. This vulnerability can be leveraged to launch denial-of-service attacks and, in specific scenarios, achieve remote code execution. Identified as CVE-2026-42945, the issue carries a critical severity score of 9.2 under the latest Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) framework. During the same six-hour automated code analysis session, researchers at AI-driven security firm DepthFirst AI identified three additional memory corruption vulnerabilities in NGINX. NGINX is a widely adopted web server and reverse proxy solution, supporting approximately one-third of the…

I embarked on this journey partly because data engineering is one of the most in-demand and lucrative careers today. I won’t deny that this played a role in my decision. But there’s more to the story. I’ve been studying data analytics for quite some time now. SQL, Power BI, Python (Pandas, NumPy, a bit of Polars), data cleaning, exploratory data analysis — you name it, I’ve been deep in the trenches. And I truly enjoy it. But at some point, I became fascinated by what happens before the data reaches my desk. How does it travel? Who constructs those pipelines?…