Cybersecurity Funding Jumps 144% In Q2

Cybersecurity Funding Jumps 144% In Q2

Venture funding to cybersecurity startups had its best quarter since Q1 2022 — surging 144% year to year — and seemingly building off a strong start to the year. The increase in venture dollars was mainly due to a significant jump in nine-figure rounds — illustrating that even as investors may be pulling back on investing in young startups, they are willing to double down on more mature companies looking for growth rounds. In the second quarter, cyber startups saw a robust $4.4 billion invested in only 153 deals — the lowest deal count in years — according to Crunchbase…
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Benchmarking LLMs for Optimization Modeling and Enhancing Reasoning via Reverse Socratic Synthesis

Benchmarking LLMs for Optimization Modeling and Enhancing Reasoning via Reverse Socratic Synthesis

arXiv:2407.09887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited their problem-solving ability in mathematical reasoning. Solving realistic optimization (OPT) problems in industrial application scenarios requires advanced and applied math ability. However, current OPT benchmarks that merely solve linear programming are far from complex realistic situations. In this work, we propose E-OPT, a benchmark for end-to-end optimization problem-solving with human-readable inputs and outputs. E-OPT contains rich optimization problems, including linear/nonlinear programming with/without table data, which can comprehensively evaluate LLMs' solving ability. In our benchmark, LLMs are required to correctly understand the problem in E-OPT and call code solver to…
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EyeDentify: A Dataset for Pupil Diameter Estimation based on Webcam Images

EyeDentify: A Dataset for Pupil Diameter Estimation based on Webcam Images

arXiv:2407.11204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we introduce EyeDentify, a dataset specifically designed for pupil diameter estimation based on webcam images. EyeDentify addresses the lack of available datasets for pupil diameter estimation, a crucial domain for understanding physiological and psychological states traditionally dominated by highly specialized sensor systems such as Tobii. Unlike these advanced sensor systems and associated costs, webcam images are more commonly found in practice. Yet, deep learning models that can estimate pupil diameters using standard webcam data are scarce. By providing a dataset of cropped eye images alongside corresponding pupil diameter information, EyeDentify enables the…
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The Morning After: AI models from Apple, NVIDIA and more were reportedly trained on YouTube videos

The Morning After: AI models from Apple, NVIDIA and more were reportedly trained on YouTube videos

Some of the world’s largest tech companies trained their AI models on datasets that included transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission. That’s according to an investigation from Proof News, which laid out how Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic, among other companies, used transcripts of YouTube videos from more than 48,000 channels. This goes against YouTube’s own platform rules, which Google execs have repeatedly mentioned.Earlier this month, Apple was criticized for failing to reveal the source of training data for Apple Intelligence, the company’s own spin on generative AI.Not only have these AI models been trained on some of…
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LionGuard: Building a Contextualized Moderation Classifier to Tackle Localized Unsafe Content

LionGuard: Building a Contextualized Moderation Classifier to Tackle Localized Unsafe Content

arXiv:2407.10995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent in a wide variety of applications, concerns about the safety of their outputs have become more significant. Most efforts at safety-tuning or moderation today take on a predominantly Western-centric view of safety, especially for toxic, hateful, or violent speech. In this paper, we describe LionGuard, a Singapore-contextualized moderation classifier that can serve as guardrails against unsafe LLM outputs. When assessed on Singlish data, LionGuard outperforms existing widely-used moderation APIs, which are not finetuned for the Singapore context, by 14% (binary) and up to 51% (multi-label). Our work…
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Sorting

Sorting

Sorting algorithms are good examples for studying algorithm design and analysis. Sorting is a classic subject in computer science. There are three reasons to study sorting algorithms. First, sorting algorithms illustrate many creative approaches to problem solving, and these approaches can be applied to solve other problems. Second, sorting algorithms are good for practicing fundamental programming techniques using selection statements, loops, methods, and arrays. Third, sorting algorithms are excellent examples to demonstrate algorithm performance. The data to be sorted might be integers, doubles, characters, or objects. Section, Sorting Arrays, presented selection sort. The selection sort algorithm was extended to sort…
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Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required

Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face today unveiled SmolLM, a new family of compact language models that surpass similar offerings from Microsoft, Meta, and Alibaba’s Qwen in performance. These models bring advanced AI capabilities to personal devices without sacrificing performance or privacy. The SmolLM lineup features three sizes — 135 million, 360 million, and 1.7 billion parameters — designed to accommodate various computational resources. Despite their small footprint, these models have demonstrated superior results on benchmarks testing common sense reasoning and world knowledge. Small but…
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Bosses in China have been accused of making job applicants take pregnancy tests: report

Bosses in China have been accused of making job applicants take pregnancy tests: report

Several Chinese companies have been accused of introducing a controversial and illegal new step to their recruitment process: Pregnancy tests.Prosecutors in Nantong, a city in the province of Jiangsu, investigated 16 companies which they said had 168 candidates take pregnancy tests as part of physical pre-employment exams, according to a report by state-run outlet Procuratorial Daily, cited by CNN and South China Morning Post (SCMP).The Tongzhou district launched the investigation into the unnamed companies earlier this year after being tipped off by a public litigation group, the report said.Prosecutors said they looked into a physical exam center and two hospitals,…
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RealPage Says Rental Pricing Tech Is Misunderstood, but Landlords Aren’t So Sure

RealPage Says Rental Pricing Tech Is Misunderstood, but Landlords Aren’t So Sure

Yardi Systems, another US property management company, is also facing a class action suit regarding antitrust violations for artificially inflating rent prices. The company has said it did “nothing illegal,” as it does not mandate rent prices through its software or make “collusive pricing decisions.”Typical rental costs in Phoenix have increased by more than about $500 a month from April 2020 to 2024, and by around $400 in Washington, DC, in the same period, according to Zillow.Renters have also filed numerous class action suits against RealPage and property owners that have been consolidated. Some landlords named in those settled claims…
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