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Billion-dollar Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein thanks Trump for his early release from prison

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from The Verge 📖 📂 **Category**: Bitcoin,Crypto,News,Tech ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Just over a year after being sentenced to five years in prison for stealing billions of dollars in Bitcoin, hacker Ilya Lichtenstein is walking free. Lichtenstein announced his release in a post on X, specifically crediting Trump: "Thanks to President Trump's First Step Act, I was released from prison early. I remain committed to making a positive impact in cybersecurity as quickly as I can."The First Step Act Lichtenstein referred to is a criminal justice reform bill passed in 2018 during the first…

obround/mytorch: Automatic differentiation implemented in python, inspired by Pytorch (easily extensible)

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💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Easily extensible autograd implemented python with pytorch API. Uses numpy to do the heavy-lifting. Implementation is very similar to pytorch (graph-based reverse-mode autodiff). It wouldn't be too tough to extend the autograd, implement torch.nn, and possibly run on GPU (presumably with CuPy or Numba). It would be an interesting (but useless) endeavor to rewrite mytorch in a low level language using BLAS library calls instead on numpy, just like pytorch. mytorch supports the computation of arbitrarily high derivatives for both scalars and non-scalars. Both torch.autograd.backward…

Paranoia, pop-dubstep and perfectly odd gems: the best old music we discovered this year | Culture

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Pop and rock,Metal,Dubstep,Katy B,Opera,Bob Dylan,Badly Drawn Boy,Indie,Dance music,Dua Lipa,The Ting Tings,Dido 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Mamas and the Papas – Mansions (1968)I grew up listening to the Mamas and the Papas’ hits but had never heard their albums before this year. I had no idea anything as creepy as Mansions lurked within their sunny oeuvre. Its sound is ominous, its mood one of stoned paranoia, its subject rich hippies sequestered in the titular luxury homes, haunted by the sensation that the flower-power dream is going wrong.The…

NFL fans rip Bryce Young for not jumping on the ball after botched flea flash in Panthers loss

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Sportskeeda 📖 📂 **Category**: NFL 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Bryce Young had the game of his life on Saturday, completing 24 of 35 attempts for two touchdowns to an interception in a 16-14 loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. However, fans believe that one moment cost him and his team dearly. Early in the fourth quarter, the third-year quarterback tried to flash a flea with Rico Dowdle, who proceeded to slide and lose the ball. Then he failed to save possession: Thanks for submitting! • The anger towards him was intense: Looking to…

NFL fans react as Christian McCaffrey arrives for Seahawks vs. 49ers game in Week 18

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Sportskeeda 📖 📂 **Category**: NFL 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Christian McCaffrey arrived in style for a crucial game. On Saturday, the star running back was seen walking into Levi's Stadium for the San Francisco 49ers' playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks. He was wearing a heavy brown jacket over a red and white plaid shirt, blue jeans, and brown shoes: Thanks for submitting! • There were a number of reactions to it: Looking to predict NFL playoff scenarios? Try our NFL prediction for real-time simulations and stay ahead of the game! @NFL @NFLPlus Kirk…

Your puppy will take off anyone’s clothes, including minors

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from The Verge 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Elon Musk,News,Tech,xAI 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: xAI's Grok is removing clothes from people's photos without their consent after rolling out a feature this week that allows X users to instantly edit any photo with a bot without needing the original poster's permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if his photo is edited, but Grok appears to have few guardrails in place to prevent anything less than full frank nudity. In the past few days, X has been filled with photos of women and children posing…

The Vietnam War: The Press on the Front Lines

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Eddie Adams Born just outside of Pittsburgh in New Kensington, Pa., Eddie Adams was one of the most well-known photographers of the Vietnam War era. He took one of the most iconic photos of the war, which depicts South Vietnamese National Police Chief, Lt. Colonel (later Brigadier General) Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Viet Cong insurgent Nguyen Van Lem. It opened the eyes of many Americans and became a symbol of the immense brutality of the war. A Marine combat photographer during the Korean War…

“Pure magic!” Goodbye Tess and Claudia, the power couple who were the life and soul of Strictly | Strictly Come Dancing

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Strictly Come Dancing,Claudia Winkleman,Television & radio,Culture,BBC,Television,Entertainment TV,Reality TV ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: FOr in the last 21 years, there has only been one person ever present on Strictly Come Dancing. It's not dancer-turned-judge Anton de Beke, who is usually eliminated from the competition early. It's not the panel's villain, Craig Revel Horwood, who may be the longest-serving judge but took sick leave after testing positive for Covid in 2021. It's not even trusted bandleader Dave Arch, who didn't join until series four.No, the only regular Strictly…

Scottish Premiership: Dundee perform ‘dirty side well’ in ‘incredible team performance’ against Dundee United

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Having beaten Falkirk 1-0 and Kilmarnock 2-1 at Dens since Christmas, Dundee went all the way to Tannadice full of confidence and were able to celebrate at full-time with a jubilant away finish.Dundee are now unbeaten on their past four visits to Tannadice and avenged their derby defeat to Dens earlier in the season.Pressley said: “We knew we were going into this match, and we had achieved two very important results, but we realize the importance of this match.” “It was a pivotal game and…

Jimmy Thelen has told Aberdeen to ‘put your ego down’ after another heavy defeat

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🚀 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After an unbeaten run of eight games, which included a narrow win over league leaders Hearts, it looked as if a corner had been converted at Pittodrie.Now, Aberdeen have turned another corner, and another, and have ended up where they were at the start of the season. “I'm not going to talk too much about the game, more about ourselves,” he began his interview with BBC Scotland.“Football is much more than technique and systems. It's more about how you behave on the football field. I…