Will AI Kill Bitcoin? Miners Are Abandoning the Network, and One Analyst Set a 2028 Deadline

Bitcoin miners are quietly doing the math and defecting. The power, the cooling, the fiber, the substations. All the stuff that took a decade to build for hashing SHA-256 turns out to be exactly what ...
Opinion

Burnham’s devolution drive risks putting Britain on a road to disaster

The presumptive next PM’s mission to give more power to the regions is no silver bullet for growth ...
Foreign Affairs

New Prime Minister, Same Problem

When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in July 2024, he hailed the result as the end of 14 years of misrule by the Conservative Party and the beginning of ...
IEEE

Come-Closer-Diffuse-Faster: Accelerating Conditional Diffusion Models for Inverse Problems through Stochastic Contraction

Abstract: Diffusion models have recently attained significant interest within the community owing to their strong performance as generative models. Furthermore, its application to inverse problems ...
IEEE

Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder and Extreme Value Theory Aided Two-Stage Learning Approach for Intelligent Fine-Grained Known/Unknown Intrusion Detection

Abstract: Promptly discovering unknown network attacks is critical for reducing the risk of major loss imposed on organizations and information infrastructure. This paper aims at developing an ...