The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch its ambitious POEM-4 Mission, a part of the PSLV-C60 launch, featuring groundbreaking experiments in space. Among these is a plant growth trial involving cowpeas and spinach in microgravity environments, with parallel tests on Earth for comparative insights. Additionally, innovative technologies such as debris-capturing robotic arms and green propulsion systems will be trialed, showcasing Indian advancements in space research. (With inputs from agencies.)NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading securities law firm Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP announces that a lawsuit has been filed against Marqeta, Inc. (NASDAQ: MQ) and certain of the Company’s senior executives for potential violations of the federal securities laws. If you invested in Marqeta, you are encouraged to obtain additional information by visiting https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/marqeta-inc . Investors have until February 7, 2025, to ask the Court to be appointed to lead the case. The complaint asserts claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on behalf of investors in Marqeta securities. The first-filed case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and is captioned Wai v. Marqeta, Inc., et al. , No. 24-cv-8874. Why was Marqeta Sued for Securities Fraud? Marqeta is a financial technology company that provides a card issuing platform, enabling businesses to create and manage customized payment cards. During the relevant period, Marqeta discussed its ability to attract and retain customers while continuing to achieve operational efficiencies given the purported investments it already made into its compliance infrastructure. In truth, it is alleged that at the time the statements were made, Marqeta experienced longer customer onboarding timelines caused by heightened regulatory scrutiny and insufficient investments into the Company’s compliance apparatus. The Stock Declines as the Truth is Revealed On November 4, 2024, the Company reported its third quarter 2024 financial results and cut its full year 2025 growth outlook, due to “heightened scrutiny of the banking environment and specific customer program changes.” On the earnings call the same day, the Company revealed that “the regulatory scrutiny” had “clearly ratcheted up” in the “first few months of 2024.” Marqeta also admitted that the impact the increased scrutiny had on the Company’s business “became apparent over the last few months.” This news caused the price of the Company’s stock to fall over 42%, from a closing price of $5.95 per share on November 4, 2024, to $3.42 per share on November 5, 2024. Click here if you suffered losses: https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/marqeta-inc . What Can You Do? If you invested in Marqeta you may have legal options and are encouraged to submit your information to the firm. All representation is on a contingency fee basis, there is no cost to you. Shareholders are not responsible for any court costs or expenses of litigation. The firm will seek court approval for any potential fees and expenses. Submit your information by visiting: https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/marqeta-inc Or contact: Ross Shikowitz ross@bfalaw.com 212-789-3619 Why Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP? Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP is a leading international law firm representing plaintiffs in securities class actions and shareholder litigation. It was named among the Top 5 plaintiff law firms by ISS SCAS in 2023 and its attorneys have been named Titans of the Plaintiffs’ Bar by Law360 and SuperLawyers by Thompson Reuters. Among its recent notable successes, BFA recovered over $900 million in value from Tesla, Inc.’s Board of Directors (pending court approval), as well as $420 million from Teva Pharmaceutical Ind. Ltd. For more information about BFA and its attorneys, please visit https://www.bfalaw.com . https://www.bfalaw.com/cases-investigations/marqeta-inc Attorney advertising. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
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Unum group director Gloria Larson sells $745,000 in stockTEHRAN – Iran's foreign ministry raised concerns with the Swiss ambassador and the Italian chargé d'affaires regarding the arrest of two Iranian nationals at the behest of the United States. Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary, and Iranian Expatriates Affairs Vahid Jalalzadeh condemned the arrests of two Iranian nationals as "unjust and illegal," emphasizing that they violated international law. He lodged formal protests with the Swiss ambassador (representing U.S. interests in Iran) and the Italian chargé d'affaires (where one of the arrests occurred). In remarks to Iranian media, Jalalzadeh assured that both the consular and political sections of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are closely monitoring the cases of these individuals. "We are committed to pursuing this matter until a satisfactory resolution is achieved," he affirmed. Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi (38) and Mehdi Mohammadzadeh (42) were arrested on December 16, under the pretext of involvement in a January drone attack targeting an illegal U.S. military base in Syria. Resistance groups in Iraq took responsibility for the operation against the base located near the Jordanian border. Najafabadi’s has been unreachable since he was arrested in Italy while he was preparing to travel to Switzerland where he lives, his family and acquaintances said to the media. His current whereabouts are unknown. Najafabadi’s university acquaintance told Tasnim News Agency that Najafabadi, a Sharif University graduate, is the CEO of Sanat Danesh Rahpooyan Aflak (SDRA), an Iranian company producing precision measurement equipment with applications in various fields, including medicine and sports. He also previously led Illumove SA, a Swiss company specializing in motion capture equipment, operating under Swiss governmental oversight. The source noted that the advanced technology in these companies' products allows for diverse uses after legal sales in Iran. Whether Najafabadi's company's products were used in the drones that targeted the American base early this year remains unclear. However, no industrial or scientific tool manufacturer is expected to control the end use of its products. The arrest appears to be a U.S. attempt to deflect attention from local opposition to its military presence in Syria and Iraq. Information on the other detainee, Mohammadzadeh, is limited; he is a U.S. resident arrested in Massachusetts around the same time as Najafabadi.
‘India, Kuwait elevate ties to strategic partnership’: MEA on PM Modi’s Kuwait visitMathematics- A Universal Subject It’s a timeless language of truth and innovation Mathematics, if approached in a very simple manner, means the science of truth. However, the decline in its respect among the evolving youngsters has many different causes. In earlier times, people who tended to study and continue with mathematics were regarded as individuals with high IQs, so only the fewest of the total population would choose to pursue this subject. In the meantime, with the advent of technology and Artificial Intelligence, this subject secures its rank in every manner, as Mathematics is considered the backbone of science. However, current times do not seem to comprehend the need to study Mathematics as a subject; rather, it has become a part of engineering courses. Being a pure Mathematician, it becomes obligatory for me to contribute to the enhancement of Mathematics as a subject and the re-attainment of its position in the academic system. Let’s commence by recognizing the fields where Mathematics has played a crucial role. The ground for higher Mathematics is set by the concepts of Sets, Relations and Functions, Linear Algebra, and Modern Algebra. Nonetheless, everyday life demands the continuous use of basic Mathematics in terms of budgeting, driving, managing time, exercising, cooking, stitching, trading, etc. There is no such event that doesn’t require Mathematics in some way or the other. Well, we can celebrate this National Mathematics Day by visualizing different shades of Mathematics beyond classrooms. Let’s first consider the concept of relations, which in Mathematics means how the elements of one set are related to the elements of another set. This concept enables us to understand how students are associated with their grades, how temperature varies at different times in a day, or even how a particular group of people relates to their ages, and so on. The next very immediate concept is a subset of a relation itself, called a function. A function is also a relation, but the only difference is that a function generates exactly one output for one input, whereas a relation can have multiple outputs for a single input. To see that in real life, we can consider human appearances—one person with exactly one unique appearance. Moreover, students in a particular classroom with exactly one identification number or Aadhaar number are also examples. Next, we study the concept of differentiation, which in layman’s language means the rate of change. To further see that in real life, we can consider a moving car, where we can observe the change of distance with respect to time, the rate of change of speed with respect to time, or the change of velocity with respect to time, and whatnot. Similarly, we can see the rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun and the rotation of other planets with respect to the Sun or the Earth and among themselves as well. Another important concept is that of matrices, which are used in geology for conducting seismic surveys and in computer sciences for programming 3D games, etc. Another prominent application of Mathematics (in particular, Number Theory) lies in the field of Cryptography, which involves the encryption and decryption of data for security purposes. By using coding and decoding, one can secretly send a message from one place to another without anyone manipulating it. For example, if we divide the English alphabet into two sets, the first 13 and the latter 13, and then join them by a bijective function, we can write HELLO as URYYB. So the message becomes encrypted. This is a very basic way; we have advanced methods as well. This field itself has many efficient uses for national or international-level confidential communications or the transmission of sensitive information. The Fibonacci series in Mathematics is a sequence of numbers in which each consecutive number is equal to the sum of the two numbers that come before it. For instance, if you start with the number zero, this is what a Fibonacci series would look like: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on. The Fibonacci series is famously found in nature—trees, flowers, and other naturally occurring spiral structures grow leaves and petals that follow the sequence. It’s also particularly useful when it comes to cryptology, the study of codes and how to solve them. With modern technology, the Fibonacci series can be used to encrypt sensitive information over the internet for security purposes. The toughest field of Mathematics so far known is Topology, which literally means the study of place or the study of surfaces. In this field of Mathematics, we study how we can transform one object into another without any cutting or pasting, yet one can mould, stretch, crumple, bend, or tear the object using proper transformation (preserving the features of the object, mathematically called a homeomorphism). Thus, for a topologist, a coffee mug and a donut (also known as a torus) are the same, as each of these two objects possesses a single hole, which is preserved during the transformation (homeomorphism). Such objects are mathematically termed as topologically equivalent. One more observation, as a topologist, is that we believe in two perspectives of looking at a particular object: one is local, and the other is global. Thus, for us, the Earth is flat (locally) but round (globally). Another very eminent concept of Mathematics is that of metric spaces, which helps us understand the distance between any two points in a space or a set. This metric, being a distance-measuring function, has direct applications in the field of Biology. Since genotypes and phenotypes are of primary importance in Biology, we see how Topology is even useful in sequencing the right nucleotides in a DNA strand. Genotypes are the internally veiled and inheritable information of a living being, whereas phenotypes are the physical appearances of that information. Topology solves one of the most important problems in DNA research. As we know, DNA is composed of four nucleotides: Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine. These are arranged in a sequence, and the sequence of nucleotides on one chain of DNA determines the sequence on the other chain. The problem in DNA research is the comparison of distinct DNA sequences. Using the concept of metric spaces (a special type of topological space), we measure the distance between two sequences, where the distance function (metric) gives insight into the evolutionary history of species. Let’s consider x and y to be two sequences of letters A, C, G, and T. To calculate the distance between x and y, we fix the number of operations on x to turn it into y. We can apply three operations—insertion, deletion, and replacement—to transform x into y. In the current era, we owe Mathematics a standing ovation for preserving the logic behind theories. Let’s not underestimate the contributions of Mathematics in all fields of science and non-science. The writer teaches Mathematics at the Government Degree College (GDC) Sopore By Dr Mir Aaliya [email protected]None
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Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco offi Matt O'brien, The Associated Press Dec 21, 2024 11:36 AM Dec 21, 2024 11:50 AM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP) Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products. “We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir’s loved ones during this difficult time,” said a statement from OpenAI. Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said “appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.” The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide. His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a “happy, smart and brave young man” who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends. Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT. “Suchir’s contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn’t have succeeded without him,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what made him such an exceptional engineer and scientist was his attention to detail and ability to notice subtle bugs or logical errors. “He had a knack for finding simple solutions and writing elegant code that worked,” Schulman wrote. “He’d think through the details of things carefully and rigorously.” Balaji later shifted to organizing the huge datasets of online writings and other media used to train GPT-4, the fourth generation of OpenAI's flagship large language model and a basis for the company's famous chatbot. It was that work that eventually caused Balaji to question the technology he helped build, especially after newspapers, novelists and others began suing OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement. He first raised his concerns with The New York Times, which reported them in an October profile of Balaji . He later told The Associated Press he would “try to testify” in the strongest copyright infringement cases and considered a lawsuit brought by The New York Times last year to be the “most serious.” Times lawyers named him in a Nov. 18 court filing as someone who might have “unique and relevant documents” supporting allegations of OpenAI's willful copyright infringement. His records were also sought by lawyers in a separate case brought by book authors including the comedian Sarah Silverman, according to a court filing. “It doesn’t feel right to be training on people’s data and then competing with them in the marketplace,” Balaji told the AP in late October. “I don’t think you should be able to do that. I don’t think you are able to do that legally.” He told the AP that he gradually grew more disillusioned with OpenAI, especially after the internal turmoil that led its board of directors to fire and then rehire CEO Sam Altman last year. Balaji said he was broadly concerned about how its commercial products were rolling out, including their propensity for spouting false information known as hallucinations. But of the “bag of issues” he was concerned about, he said he was focusing on copyright as the one it was “actually possible to do something about.” He acknowledged that it was an unpopular opinion within the AI research community, which is accustomed to pulling data from the internet, but said “they will have to change and it’s a matter of time.” He had not been deposed and it’s unclear to what extent his revelations will be admitted as evidence in any legal cases after his death. He also published a personal blog post with his opinions about the topic. Schulman, who resigned from OpenAI in August, said he and Balaji coincidentally left on the same day and celebrated with fellow colleagues that night with dinner and drinks at a San Francisco bar. Another of Balaji’s mentors, co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, had left OpenAI several months earlier , which Balaji saw as another impetus to leave. Schulman said Balaji had told him earlier this year of his plans to leave OpenAI and that Balaji didn't think that better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence “was right around the corner, like the rest of the company seemed to believe.” The younger engineer expressed interest in getting a doctorate and exploring “some more off-the-beaten path ideas about how to build intelligence,” Schulman said. Balaji's family said a memorial is being planned for later this month at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California, not far from his hometown of Cupertino. —————- EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. —————-- The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives. Matt O'brien, The Associated Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? This has been shared 0 times 0 Shares Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Get your daily Victoria news briefing Email Sign Up More Science News No farm, no problem: Young farmers get their start in the industry in other ways Dec 21, 2024 3:00 AM Amazon and Starbucks workers are on strike. Trump might have something to do with it Dec 20, 2024 3:44 PM Mystery drone sightings continue in New Jersey and across the US. Here's what we know Dec 20, 2024 3:40 PM
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