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Washington — Two European men are accused of filing false police emergency reports and attempting to harass and intimidate members of Congress, U.S. government officials and dozens of others, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday. According to the federal indictment, the suspects, Tomas Szabo, 26, of Romania, and Nemanja Radovanovic, 21, of Serbia, made “swatting” calls to at least 100 people, provoking aggressive responses by police officers at the victims' homes. The calls also included threats to carry out a mass shooting at a synagogue in New York City and to detonate explosives at the U.S. Capitol and at a…

To receive industry-leading AI updates and exclusive content, sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters. Learn more Google researchers have achieved a major milestone in AI, creating a neural network that can generate real-time gameplay for the classic shooter Doom without the use of a traditional game engine. The system, called GameNGen, is a major step forward in AI, with each frame predicted by a diffusion model, generating playable gameplay at 20 frames per second on a single chip. “We present GameNGen, the first game engine powered exclusively by neural models that enables high-quality, real-time interaction with complex environments…

Little League World Series Champions, Lake Mary, Florida. Photo: Lake Mary Little League Banner Sports is sponsored by the Patriots Foundation His name is Teraj Anderson, and in his yellow-and-black uniform he vaguely recalls Smokey Burgess, the rotund catcher who helped the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series. He's a 12-year-old African-American boy who plays in the bullpen and as a backup catcher and bats ninth for the 2024 Williamsport Little League Championship team in Lake Mary, Fla. He drove in the decisive run and stole home plate in the team's 10-7 win over…

Luc de Zeeuw/iStock via Getty Images Investment Thesis My previous bullish thesis on Gigacloud Technologies (NASDAQ:GCT) was extremely unjustified. The stock has lost 45% of its value since May 5, 2024. To provide some context, the broader stock market has risen almost 10% over the same period. Frankly, I may have been wrong, as I overestimated the strength and potential of the company's business model. Despite the continued surge in revenue, key profitability metrics have stagnated over the past few quarters. This may indicate that the operating leverage potential of the business model is rather limited and that EPS expansion…

BRISTOL, Connecticut, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) ESPN Networks is looking into using artificial intelligence to personalize its news and summary show “SportsCenter” as younger viewers turn to streaming TV, ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said on Monday.Disney is planning to offer its flagship ESPN network as a standalone app for the first time next year, aiming to make it a top digital destination for sports fans.The company envisions offering app users customized “sports centers” based on their interests, Pitaro told reporters at the company's Bristol, Connecticut, headquarters.”AI will obviously be a big help in terms of personalization…

If you're planning on picking fifth in a PPR draft, the easiest first step in preparation is to rank your five favorite fantasy football players: five running backs, five receivers, a combination of two positions, or five quarterbacks if you're superflexible. I know I'll get one of those, easy. You can view my top 5 list along with 195 other players. I followed my list and chose the highest ranked players remaining. 1. Christian McCaffrey2. C.D. Lam3. Tyreek Hill4. Breece Hall5. Bijan Robinson To be honest, I was tempted to put Amon-Ra St. Brown or Justin Jefferson in the top…

Donating a 3D printer to a local organization allows students to learn more about the process.Recently, Justin Nichols, Megan Ashline and Dan Williams of Nichols Paint and Fab in Watseka visited the Watseka Park District to make a donation.Nicholls pointed out that schools today don't offer many industrial or more practical courses.He said the skills children will learn in the curriculum will help them find jobs that will allow them to make a good living.”We're just trying to give the younger generation as many opportunities as we can,” he said. “We go to car shows, we do hands-on things like…

Conduent has hired Anna Sebbah, a 30-year public sector veteran who most recently served as CEO of Magellan Federal, as its new president of its government division.Sever will oversee Conduent's portfolio of health care, eligibility and enrollment programs across federal and state governments. The business process services provider said Tuesday that Sever will also lead efforts to further incorporate emerging technologies into its overall solutions.Conduent works with government agencies to provide health and human services, including Medicaid eligibility and enrollment. The company also helps maintain the underlying enterprise administration systems that support Medicaid.According to the company's second-quarter financial statement, government…

Conduent has hired Anna Sebbah, a 30-year public sector veteran who most recently served as CEO of Magellan Federal, as its new president of its government division.Sever will oversee Conduent's portfolio of health care, eligibility and enrollment programs across federal and state governments. The business process services provider said Tuesday that Sever will also lead efforts to further incorporate emerging technologies into its overall solutions.Conduent works with government agencies to provide health and human services, including Medicaid eligibility and enrollment. The company also helps maintain the underlying enterprise administration systems that support Medicaid.According to the company's second-quarter financial statement, government…

Google's new AI-based system for fielding questions before all-hands meetings is giving the company's leaders an easy way out, employees say. Previously, employees could post their own questions through an internal tool called Dory and vote for the ones they wanted answered at monthly staff meetings, known as TGIFs. Google executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, would typically answer the questions with the most votes, Business Insider reported. But the process changed in April, and several anonymous employees told BI that the new system only asks simple questions. Google replaced Dory with a new AI-based system called Ask, which aggregates and…