Auteur/autrice : Alberto

A virus disguised as a game on Steam is likely to cost a streamer with cancer $30,000 in donations.An incident is currently rocking the streaming community and causing a great deal of mistrust: a streamer suffering from cancer raised over $30,000 in donations for his treatment through his livestreams, only to lose all the money within minutes, according to his own statements.The reason is said to have been a game that he downloaded live on Steam on the advice of a viewer and which turned out to be malware. While the streamer is devastated, the incident is dividing the community: Was…

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A New Jersey judge has ruled that the National Council for Problem Gambling (NCPG) must stop operating the 1-800-GAMBLER helpline by September 29. The hotline is one of the most prominent sources of assistance for individuals with gambling problems. The NCPG has been operating the service since 2022. It pays the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey (CCGNJ) $150,000 annually to use the phone number nationally. The National Council for Problem Gambling (NCPG) has been ordered to stop operating the 1-800-GAMBLER helpline. Image Credit: Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash There has been a breakdown between the two organizations, however, and…

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Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. Millions of us use chatbots every day, even though we don’t really know how they work or how using them affects us. In a bid to address this, the FTC recently launched an inquiry into how chatbots affect children and teenagers. Elsewhere, OpenAI has started to shed more light on what people are actually using ChatGPT for, and why it thinks its LLMs are so prone to making…

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Image credit: Yicun Liu/Riot Games After a highly competitive Group Stage packed with close comebacks and unexpected underdog victories, VALORANT Champions 2025 is heading into the Playoffs. Between September 25th and October 5th, eight teams (3 EMEA, 3 Americas, 2 Pacific) will fight through a double-elimination bracket to lift the Champions trophy. While the likes of Fnatic and Paper Rex aim to add another international trophy to their collection, underdogs such as GIANTX and NRG seek to continue their miracle runs. Before the playoffs kick off, Esports Insider takes a deep dive into the VALORANT Champions 2025 Playoffs bracket to examine…

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This week on Steam, you can look forward to dark horror adventures, epic strategy battles, and unusual indie experiments—we’ll show you the most exciting new releases.The coming week has lots of exciting new releases in store for PC gamers! While strategy gamers can enjoy new 4X worlds, building fans can celebrate fresh city-building games set in Rome, Tenochtitlan, and ancient China.Sports enthusiasts will also be reunited with a familiar top dog, and an unusual TV simulator promises charming retro madness. However, the highlight of the week is a Japanese horror classic that takes you back to the 1960s and aims to…

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In this tutorial, we explore advanced computer vision techniques using TorchVision’s v2 transforms, modern augmentation strategies, and powerful training enhancements. We walk through the process of building an augmentation pipeline, applying MixUp and CutMix, designing a modern CNN with attention, and implementing a robust training loop. By running everything seamlessly in Google Colab, we position ourselves to understand and apply state-of-the-art practices in deep learning with clarity and efficiency. Check out the FULL CODES here. !pip install torch torchvision torchaudio –quiet !pip install matplotlib pillow numpy –quiet import torch import torchvision from torchvision import transforms as T from torchvision.transforms import v2…

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After strong performances since the addition of Mareks “YEKINDAR” Galinskis and Daniel “molodoy” Golubenko, FURIA have won their first ever tier one Counter-Strike tournament at FISSURE Playground 2, beating The MongolZ 3-2 in the grand final. Ahead of the tournament kick starting, we caught up with their star man Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato to discuss the future of Brazilian CS as teams continue to follow in FURIA’s footsteps and recruit from overseas. KSCERATO believes there’s still a lot of talent in Brazil. Image Credit: PGL Seizing opportunities Prior to the signings of YEKINDAR and molodoy, FURIA were lying dormant. Long past…

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Decentralized social platform UXLink said on Wednesday it was deploying a new Ethereum contract after a multisignature wallet exploit allowed attackers to mint billions of unauthorized tokens and crash the value of its native asset.UXLink said its new smart contract had passed a security audit and would be deployed on the Ethereum mainnet. The project said the new contract dropped the mint-burn function to prevent any similar incidents in the future. The project confirmed the breach on Tuesday, saying that a significant amount of crypto was transferred to exchanges. Estimates of the losses from the hack vary, with Cyvers Alerts estimating…

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