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As the U.S. hurtles toward a presidential election this fall, the nation’s inflation rate has quietly returned to normal, even as it continues to worry voters and draw focus at campaign events.More than half of adults list inflation as a top issue for the country, making it the highest-ranking concern by a wide margin over the likes of immigration, crime and abortion, according to an Ipsos poll conducted late last month.The disconnect stems in part from a typical lag between when inflation comes down and when consumers acclimate to new price levels, since a lower inflation rate does not mean…

WASHINGTON — It’s not just the presidential election: Foreign governments are targeting House and Senate races around the country in their effort to meddle with American democracy this election year, intelligence officials warned Monday.Russia and China have launched influence operations designed to help or hurt candidates in specific congressional races. Without giving specifics about the number of affected races, an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Monday that both countries have zeroed in on races where they believe they have a national security interest at stake.Other smaller nations may be trying their own influence operations,…

WWE Raw Results: Gunther retained the World Heavyweight Championship© X (formerly Twitter) The latest episode of WWE Raw saw Gunther successfully defend his World Heavyweight Championship against Sami Zayn and he is expected to face Cody Rhodes at the WWE Crown Jewel event. The WWE champion will take on the World Heavyweight champion for the newly unveiled WWE Crown Jewel Championship. Zayn gave it his all but Gunther proved to be too dominant. In other results, WWE once again teased a marquee clash between CM Punk and Seth Rollins while the reigning champion Jey Uso defended his Intercontinental…

Illustration: Ajay Mohanty2 min read Last Updated : Oct 07 2024 | 9:01 PM IST More than 13,000 internship opportunities have been posted by various companies on the PM Internship portal, four days since its launch, with maximum posts by Jubilant FoodWorks, Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., and Tech Mahindra, sources in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs said. Around 200 companies have so far registered on the portal, including Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank Limited, and several other top CSR spenders in the country. The internship opportunities are spread across sectors including banking and financial services, oil,…

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in physics is being awarded Tuesday, a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA.Three scientists won last year’s physics Nobel for providing the first split-second glimpse into the superfast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses.The 2023 award went to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz for their work with the tiny part of each atom that races around the center and is fundamental to virtually everything: chemistry, physics, our bodies and…

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. NEW RESEARCH Can LLMs be Fooled? Investigating Vulnerabilities in LLMs Large language models (LLMs) are the de facto standard for numerous machine learning tasks, ranging from text generation and summarization to even code generation. They also play an integral role in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, recent studies show they are susceptible to adversarial attacks, including prompt injections, jailbreaking and other strategies. As people and organizations increasingly rely on LLMs, it…

In a surprise appearance at T-Mobile’s Capital Markets Day, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared a bold vision for the future of telecommunications. “We’ve fused signal processing and AI,” Huang declared during a fireside chat with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert, speaking to an audience of press, analysts and investors. “This is going to be a great new growth opportunity for the telecommunications industry.” Huang’s remarks came alongside NVIDIA’s announcement of its groundbreaking AI Aerial platform, which promises to reshape wireless networks by integrating AI and radio access networks, AI-RAN. The platform is designed to optimize network performance, efficiency and…

The U.S. Marshals have arrested a man who has eluded authorities for five months after they say he shot somebody in the head before setting them on fire, authorities said.Michael H. Hurley, 37, has been wanted by the Cleveland Division on Police in Ohio for aggravated murder since May when, according to Cleveland Police, Hurley shot somebody in the head and then set them on fire.“On May 8, 2024, third district officers received a radio assignment to respond to a residence in the 1700 block of E. 88th Place in connection with a dead body. Cleveland fire was already on…

3 min read Last Updated : Oct 08 2024 | 1:37 PM IST Allied Digital Services stock price skyrocketed after the company won an order worth Rs 430 crore for ‘Pune Safe City Project’. Allied Digital Services share price surged 15.17 per cent at Rs 282 per share on the BSE in Tuesday’s intraday trade.  At 1:31 PM, the stock price of the company was trading 12.91 per cent at Rs 276.45 a piece on the BSE. By comparison, the BSE’s Sensex was up 0.61 per cent to 81,547.60 level.  Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp …

NEW YORK — Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that he had accepted the resignation of his deputy mayor for public safety, Philip Banks, the latest senior official to leave as the mayor fends off an indictment and calls to step down. Adams’ director of Asian affairs, Winnie Greco, also resigned and the city fired another former aide, Rana Abbasova, who previously served as the mayor’s liaison to the Turkish community, a spokesperson for City Hall said Monday evening. Federal investigators have seized devices from all three officials — along with several other high-ranking city appointees —…