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This could be your house or your family member next time if you continue using firecrackers.
Keep this in mind. Not everyone gets to have a Happy Diwali.
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"The water purifiers, the UPS/inverter and the air purifiers in our homes are not signs of success. They are symbols of failure."
h/t @soumyadip
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the fact that the ultimate victory in an indian's psyche is to make others seethe with envy reveals a consciousness so thoroughly colonised by the gaze of others that even joy has to be performed for an audience. His idea of prosperity is not abundance but comparative humiliation
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Canva is laying off 22% of its workforce which is 1271 employees, and this is what their CEO said.
We need more founders like thissss.
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Il n'a pas gagné de Grand Chelem, il n'a pas gagné de Masters 1000, mais Gaël Monfils est un joueur dont on se souviendra toujours dans l'histoire du tennis.
Très très peu de joueurs peuvent prétendre à cet honneur.
La Monf, un joueur unique. 😍
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If you want to understand the State of India’s education and our priorities, read this:
1. In Hyderabad, a university declared a holiday so that students can watch a movie.
2. In West Bengal, the Madhyamik exams were postponed as teachers were on census duty.
3. In Bareilly, schools were shut for a BJP padyatra about protecting democracy!!
4. In Ladakh, a school run by Soman Wangchuk is being asked to shut down.
5. In mumbai, 24 of the total 34 teachers of one school were moved to booth level officer duties.
6. In Karnataka, students got less scores as teachers busy on SIR duty couldn’t teach.
7. In Maharashtra, the election commission recommended alternate days of schooling so that teachers can do election related work.
8. In Maharashtra, 95 FIRs were filed against teachers who refused election work.
9. In Orissa, all schools were closed in a city during the PM’s visit.
10. Calcutta University moved its exams as Central forces were housed in 12 of its affiliated colleges and there was no space to hold exams.
Demographic dividend, any one?
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Is the aura gone from the Australian team? Marco Jansen doesn't seem to think so. #SAvAUS
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Factory workers in Haryana are losing fingers and hands on power press machines used to make auto parts. This ground report reveals how unsafe machines, production pressure, treatment after accidents and what factory work can cost the workers.
Watch full video on our YouTube channel👇🏼
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Report & Edit: @bhuvan_mov
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राज्य दुष्काळाच्या झळांनी होरपळत आहे. शेतकरी संकटात आहे, सामान्य माणूस महागाई आणि पाणीटंचाईशी झुंजतोय. मात्र, दुसरीकडे MSRDC चे अधिकारी अनिलकुमार गायकवाड यांच्या वाढदिवसानिमित्त कंत्राटदारांकडून वर्तमानपत्रांची चार-पाच पाने जाहिरातींनी भरली जात असल्याचे पाहायला मिळाले. राजकारण्यांच्या जाहिरातबाजीचा वीट आलेला असताना आता अधिकारीही त्यात मागे नाहीत, हे विशेष!
एक काळ होता, जेव्हा सरकारी कार्यालयात कंत्राटदारांना अधिकारी साधे उभेही करत नव्हते. आज परिस्थिती अशी आहे की कंत्राटदारच अधिकाऱ्यांच्या वाढदिवसासाठी लाखो रुपये खर्च करून वर्तमानपत्रांतून त्यांचे गुणगान गात आहेत. हा बदल केवळ शुभेच्छा देण्याच्या संस्कृतीत झालेला बदल नाही, तर सरकारी यंत्रणा आणि कंत्राटदार यांच्यातील बदलत्या संबंधांबद्दल गंभीर प्रश्न निर्माण करणारा आहे.
मुळात कंत्राटदारांना एखाद्या अधिकाऱ्याच्या वाढदिवसानिमित्त लाखो रुपये खर्च करून जाहिराती देण्याची गरज का भासते? या जाहिरातींमागे केवळ सदिच्छा आहेत की काही हितसंबंधही आहेत? या जाहिरातींचा खर्च नेमका कोण उचलत आहे? ज्या कंत्राटदारांची कोट्यवधी रुपयांची कामे याच सरकारी यंत्रणेमार्फत चालतात, त्यांच्याकडून अधिकाऱ्यांचा असा जाहीर उदोउदो होणे ही सामान्य बाब समजायची का?
अधिकाऱ्यांच्या वाढदिवसासाठी कंत्राटदारांकडून होणाऱ्या या लाखोंच्या जाहिरातबाजीबद्दल प्रशासनाने मौन का बाळगावे? या संबंधांची चौकशी व्हायला नको का? आज एकाचे चार पान आले आहेत उद्या अनेक अधिकाऱ्यांचे येतील, राज्यात कंत्राटदार अन अधिकारी कमी आहेत का? यावर कुठे आळा बसायला नको? सरकारी पद हे जनतेच्या सेवेसाठी असते, कंत्राटदारांच्या कौतुक सोहळ्याचे व्यासपीठ बनण्यासाठी नाही. अधिकाऱ्यांची प्रतिष्ठा कंत्राटदारांनी छापलेल्या जाहिरातींच्या पानांवरून ठरत नाही. ती त्यांच्या कामातून, पारदर्शक कारभारातून आणि जनतेला मिळणाऱ्या न्यायातून ठरते.
राज्यात शेतकऱ्यांच्या प्रश्नांसाठी सरकारी यंत्रणेकडे पैसे आणि वेळ नसतो; पण अधिकाऱ्यांच्या वाढदिवसासाठी वर्तमानपत्रांची पाने भरायला कंत्राटदारांकडे एवढा पैसा आणि उत्साह कुठून येतो, हा प्रश्न तरी विचारला गेलाच पाहिजे !
याची दखल घ्याल @CMOMaharashtra
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The Cricket vs Baseball debate is HOT right now. As someone who loves and understands both sports here are my thoughts.
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holy fucking shit.
openai had two ai agents running in separate virtual machines. no network connection between them. no shared writable files. they weren’t supposed to be able to exchange information.
so the agents figured out how to communicate through the CPU CACHE.😭
one manipulated what was stored in the processor’s cache, while the other measured tiny differences in memory access times to decode the message.
they literally found a way to communicate through hardware timing.
this happened during openai’s internal red-teaming, and it’s one of the coolest things i’ve read about ai agents in a while.
Over the past several months, we have substantially hardened the security of our research training environment. We’ve removed live internet access for all frontier models during training and built an offline world for them to use instead—a cached version of the web where they can still learn to browse, search, and use applications.
On September 20, after a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to find a way outside of this offline world, we paused frontier training to strengthen containment further. We assembled teams of agents, powered by our most cyber-capable models, and tasked them with finding weaknesses in our research environments.
While they found no route to the internet they could easily exploit while concealing their activity from our monitors, they did find zero-day vulnerabilities, virtual machine escapes, and hardware side-channels for communication between agents. We used their discoveries to further strengthen our defenses and contribute fixes to open-source software.
After strengthening our containment architecture, we resumed our frontier RL training and inference on October 1. We’ve reserved substantial compute for continuous red-teaming, and made high-compute red-teaming part of the safety cases we use to decide whether frontier training and evaluation can proceed securely.
openai.com/index/securing-ou…
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OpenAI tasked its red-teaming agents with finding ways to communicate across isolation boundaries in controlled environments. CPU cache timing side-channels for covert communication are established techniques documented in security research for years.
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