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NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter vision-language-action (VLA) model for autonomous driving, under an open commercial license. The stated design target is the long-tail events: rare, multi-agent situations that conventional detection-and-prediction stacks handle poorly. The model pairs a 32B VLM backbone, built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post-trained with reinforcement learning, with a 2.3B diffusion-based action decoder. From one pass over full-surround camera video it emits a planned trajectory, a causal explanation of that trajectory, and a meta-action. Is it deployable Yes, and for commercial use from day one. The weights are released under OpenMDW-1.1, the…

The Security and Exchange Commission’s outgoing commissioner, Hester Peirce, has expressed optimism that the long-awaited Clarity Act will pass.  Speaking on CoinDesk’s The Policy Protocol show, the regulator said that passing the law would help the SEC in drafting regulation.  Lawmakers are pushing to get a vote on the crypto market structure bill — or Clarity Act — before the Senate goes to recess. Some Republicans have bemoaned that Democratic members of the senate are deliberately dragging their feet with the bill.  The Senate has 4 days to pass the CLARITY Act before recess. 👀Contact your Senator and tell them…

The Sun continuously sends a fast stream of charged particles through space, a phenomenon known as the solar wind. Earth is largely protected from this flow by its global magnetic field, but Mars has no comparable shield. This leaves the planet’s upper atmosphere exposed, allowing the solar wind to knock atmospheric particles away and carry them into space. A new study led by Boston University and published in Science Advances suggests that this atmospheric loss can resemble wind moving across water. On Earth, wind passing over a body of water can create rolling waves and swirling vortices. At Mars, the…

Sumatra — Fifteen years ago, Jantho Pine Forest Nature Reserve in Indonesia’s western Aceh province, on the island of Sumatra, had no orangutans. Today, it is home to a growing wild population, built almost entirely from rescued and relocated animals. Since 2011, conservationists from the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme have brought nearly 200 Sumatran orangutans to Jantho after they were rescued from the illegal wildlife trade or relocated from areas where deforestation and expanding agriculture had brought them into conflict with people. The reserve’s vast, protected forests offered a rare opportunity to establish a new population in a habitat…

Madrid, Spain – Sally Chapman was watching the Wimbledon tennis championship on television when she noticed a “commotion” outside their home in Bedar, a tiny village in southern Spain, so her husband went outside to investigate.So began what she remembers as the worst night of her life.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIt was July 9 and the forest fire that raged in Bedar and Los Gallardos, in Almeria, ultimately killed 14 people and saw more than 1,500 people evacuated.“There were five British people, friends of mine and others in the village, who died in the fire that night.…

Four moves would help Europe accelerate. The first is multi-speed procurement. Software-led systems such as drones and targeting improve in rapid cycles throughout their deployment and need procurement that can keep up. Israel’s Iron Dome started out as far less capable than it is today and improved continuously in service. European defense ministries have already set up high-speed procurement units with dedicated teams and greater risk tolerance. These need to become mainstream, rather than the exception. Collaboration in procurement, maintenance and training brings costs down and delivery forward. The second is military collaboration to reduce fragmentation. Collaboration in procurement, maintenance…

Kansas Democrats have defied political gravity for eight years by holding the governor’s office in one of the country’s most reliably Republican states.On Tuesday, primary voters selected State Senator Cindy Holscher as the candidate to try to keep that seat in Democratic hands, according to The Associated Press. Ms. Holscher defeated a fellow lawmaker, State Senator Ethan Corson, who was backed by the outgoing Democratic governor, Laura Kelly. Mayor Curt Skoog of Overland Park also sought the nomination.The race became a test of what sort of candidate Democratic voters prefer in what is expected to be a challenging general election…

Key eventsThames Valley chief constable ‘considering’ joining Police Federation legal challengeThe Thames Valley chief constable has said he is “receiving legal advice” and would “certainly consider” joining the Police Federation’s legal action over the possible release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers.Asked if he would join the case, Jason Hogg told the BBC’s Today programme on Wednesday: double quotation markThis is something I certainly would consider. But like I said, I urge the government now. I do think that the public opinion is overwhelming in this matter, but I think it’s unfair and I do believe confidence in the criminal justice…

TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro 80Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure pros and cons Pros Offers outstanding heat dissipation.Features rock-solid construction.Delivers zero degradation of transfer speeds.Supports an 8TB M.2 NVMe 2280 SSD. Cons A bit pricey (but it’s worth every penny). more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.I have several external drives attached to my Mac Studio, all of which are used for video projects. Some are just for storage, while others are for rendering. When rendering video, everything needs to be set up for the best possible performance; otherwise, it could mean the difference between minutes or…

A new version of the XCSSET malware is targeting thousands of macOS users through compromised Xcode projects and GitHub repositories. Xcode is the official software development kit (SDK) for creating, testing, and publishing software for all Apple’s platforms. After months of inactivity, XCSSET has resurfaced with an updated version, v40, that features enhanced evasion techniques and introduces two new components, researchers have found. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, who analyzed the infection chain, say the threat actor spreads the malware by compromising vulnerable Git repositories and injecting a downloader script into benign files within Xcode projects. Developers downloading the…