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A former employee of microchip machine manufacturer ASML has been banned from entering the Netherlands for a period of 20 years. It concerns a 43-year-old Russian engineer accused of repeatedly violating Russian sanctions, according to Nieuwsuur. He is suspected of stealing items over years, such as microchip documentation from ASML, and also similar confidential paperwork from chip technology company Mapper Lithography. The entry ban was a measure introduced by Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber, Nieuwsuur reported. Such a ban is rarely imposed and only in the event of a threat to national security. The ministry would not provide an explanation for the reason for the entry ban. The ministry’s media relations team is also severely understaffed. The stolen information is alleged to have helped Russian microchip production, and other related sectors. In return, the man is suspected of receiving tens of thousands of euros. The man must appear in court in Rotterdam on Monday for a status hearing in his criminal case. The three-judge district court panel will also have an opportunity to consider aspects of the case, and whether he should be kept in pre-trial detention.Geoffrey Hinton says he doesn’t regret the work he did that laid the foundations of artificial intelligence, but wishes he thought of safety sooner. The British-Canadian computer scientist often called the godfather of AI said over the weekend that he doesn’t have any guilty regret, which he said is when someone has done something when they know they shouldn’t have at the time. “In the same circumstances, I would do the same again,” he said of his research, which dates back to the 1980s and has formed the underpinnings of AI. “However, I think it might have been unfortunate in that we’re going to get superintelligence faster than I thought, and I wish I’d thought about safety earlier.” Superintelligence surpasses the abilities of even the smartest humans. Hinton thinks it could arrive in the next five to 20 years and humanity may have to “worry seriously about how we stay in control.” Hinton made his prediction during a press conference in Stockholm, where he is due to a receive the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday. Hinton, a University of Toronto professor emeritus, and co-laureate John Hopfield, a Princeton University professor, are being given the prize because they developed some of the foundations of machine learning, a computer science that helps AI mimic how humans learn. Hinton kicked off his Nobel week on Saturday with the press conference, where he appeared with laureates in chemistry and economics and was asked about AI safety and regulation. Hinton left a job at Google last year to speak more freely about the technology’s dangers, which he has said could include job losses, bias and discrimination, echo chambers, fake news, battle robots and even the end of humanity. On Saturday, he said he considers lethal autonomous weapons to be a short-term danger. “There isn’t going to be any regulation there,” he said, pointing out that European regulations have a specific clause exempting military use of AI from restrictions. “Governments are unwilling to regulate themselves, when it comes to lethal autonomous weapon, and there is an arms race going on between all the major arms suppliers like the United States, China, Russia, Britain, Israel and possibly even Sweden, though I don’t know.” A day later, Hinton put his concerns about AI aside to deliver a lecture with Hopfield explaining the research that earned them their Nobel. “Today I am going to do something very foolish.” Hinton said in introducing his portion of the pair’s hour-long speech. “I am going to try and describe a complicated technical idea for a general audience without using any equations.” The audience chuckled. The talk began with Hopfield describing a network he invented that could store and reconstruct images in data. It led Hinton to later create the Boltzmann machine, which learns from examples, rather than instructions, and when trained, can recognize familiar characteristics in information, even if it has not seen that data before. Hinton said students in his lab and others run by fellow AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun were using Boltzmann machines to pre-train neural networks — machine learning models that make decisions in a manner similar to the human brain — between 2006 and 2011. By 2009, two of Hinton’s students had showed the technique “worked a little bit better than the best existing techniques for recognizing fragments of phonemes in speech and that then changed the speech recognition community,” Hinton said. Phonemes are small units of sound that can change the meaning of a word. Google later began working on technology based on Hinton’s discoveries and “suddenly the speech recognition on the Android got a lot better.” Even though the kind of Boltzmann machines Hinton was working with back then are no longer used in the same ways as he used them, he said “they allowed us to make the transition from thinking that deep neural networks would never work to seeing that deep neural networks actually could be made to work.” Nobel Week will continue Monday with a discussion about the future of health before an awards ceremony and banquet is held Tuesday. Hinton has said he will donate a portion of the prize money — equivalent to about C$1.45 million — he and Hopfield will be given to Water First, which is working to boost Indigenous access to water, and a charity supporting neurodiverse young adults. He is also reportedly due to donate an early Boltzmann chip to the Nobel Prize Museum. The Nobel is not the only prize Hinton scooped up this month. On Friday, he, Bengio, LeCun, Chinese-American computer scientist Fei-Fei Li and Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, were awarded the Vin Future Prize, a US$3 million prize for science breakthroughs in a ceremony in Vietnam. Hinton, Bengio and LeCun previously won the A.M. Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, together in 2018. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Dec. 8, 2024.casino slots big wins 。

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Charles De Ketelaere shrugs off Paulo Fonseca’s complaints and tries to explain what made him such a different player since moving to Atalanta from Milan. ‘It’s not just one thing.’ The Belgium international opened the scoring in , rising to nod in a Marten de Roon free kick, before Alvaro Morata’s equaliser and the late Ademola Lookman winner. However, in all his post-match interviews, insisting De Ketelaere had ‘clearly’ fouled Theo Hernandez during his leap. “I saw that they protested, but I jumped much higher and it is only natural to put your hands there when jumping like that. In my view, that is never a foul,” Considering he had failed to score a single goal in 40 competitive appearances for Milan, finding the net against his former club must be particularly pleasing. “I was happy to score and to get the victory. We are feeling confident, we feel that we can win every game and you can see that in our performance. It is why we managed to beat a Milan side that in my view is very strong.” De Ketelaere is such a transformed figure from the one we saw in that one season with the Rossoneri jersey, so what changed? “It’s not just one thing. I think the most important is that I had already played in Italy for a year, so I had that experience, but also the way of playing allows me to make more of an impact.” He is very versatile with Atalanta under Gian Piero Gasperini, as this evening he was used as a centre-forward, whereas at other times he can play in support of Mateo Retegui. “Our tactics depend also on the characteristics of the opponents we are facing. Today I was up against Malick Thiaw, so I was able to go wide and find the extra spaces there.”AP Trending SummaryBrief at 6:29 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON -- The Senate won't hold votes on four of President Joe Biden's appellate court nominees as part of a deal with Republicans to allow for speedier consideration of other judicial nominations and bring Biden within striking distance of the 234 total judicial confirmations that occurred during President-elect Donald Trump's first term. Currently, the number of judges confirmed under Biden totals 221. Republicans forced numerous procedural votes this week and late-night sessions as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attempted to move ahead in getting more of Biden's nominees confirmed before Congress adjourns and Republicans take control of the chamber in January. A Senate Democratic leadership aide said Thursday a time agreement had been reached to allow for consideration of seven district court judges the week following Thanksgiving. Plus, another six district judges would be placed on the Senate executive calendar, making it possible for them to be considered on the Senate floor in December. Excluded from that list were four circuit judge nominations awaiting a floor vote: Adeel Abdullah Mangi of New Jersey, nominated for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals; Karla M. Campbell of Tennessee, nominated for the Sixth Circuit; Julia M. Lipez of Maine, First Circuit; and Ryan Young Park of North Carolina, Fourth Circuit. Mangi would have been the first Muslim American to serve as a federal appellate court judge if he had been confirmed. Mangi received law degrees from Oxford and Harvard. He works in a prestigious law firm and has secured significant legal victories. But his limited volunteer work with two outside groups has imperiled his nomination. He faced opposition from some Democrats as well. The confirmation battles over circuit court judges are generally much harder fights given their role in hearing appeals from district courts and often having the last word on legal matters. Schumer's office said the four circuit nominees lacked the support to be confirmed, and that they received more than triple the amount of other judges moving forward as part of the agreement. Liberal groups in recent weeks have been pressuring Senate Democrats to do what it takes to get all of Biden's judicial nominees confirmed before Trump takes office again. And some expressed disappointment with the deal. "Reports that there is a deal that would leave behind critical circuit court nominees are unacceptable. All of these nominees must be confirmed expeditiously before the end of the 118th Congress," said Lena Zwarensteyn, an advisor at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. "When senators return from the holiday break, Leader Schumer and senators must do whatever it takes — for as long as it takes — to confirm every single pending judicial nominee, including all circuit court nominees, to provide an important guardrail for our democracy. No matter what, this must get done,” Zwarensteyn said. Schumer has dedicated much of the Senate schedule to getting Biden’s judicial nominees confirmed. He called it a basic responsibility of the Senate. “We'll take that responsibility very seriously between now and the end of the year,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. ___The trustees of Missouri’s largest state employee retirement system voted Thursday to prohibit the use of pension funds for political contributions. The Missouri State Employees Retirement System board, responding to donations made this year by two smaller systems, made it the responsibility of the executive director to make sure money doesn’t flow into campaigns for ballot measures or candidates. “Missouri pension systems funds should never be used to make contributions to political campaigns,” said Rep. Dirk Deaton, R-Noel, who is one of four legislators on the 11-member board. Deaton also said he intends to introduce legislation for the upcoming session to ban political contributions by all pension systems. The legislation, he said, will mirror the policy adopted Thursday by the trustees and be similar to the law barring political subdivisions from using public money for political purposes. In the policy change, the trustees made it the responsibility of the system executive director to ensure “no contribution or expenditure of system funds shall be made by MOSERS to advocate, support, or oppose the passage or defeat of any ballot measure or the nomination or election of any candidate for public office, or to direct any System funds to, or pay any debts or obligations of, any committee supporting or opposing such ballot measures or candidates.” The MOSERS fund pays pension benefits to 56,205 retirees and beneficiaries and covers state employees in most agencies and state universities. It receives approximately $700 million in contributions annually from the state and employees to support those benefits. At the end of fiscal 2023, the system had $8.7 billion in net assets. The fund has never made political contributions and the policy means it won’t in the future, Deaton said. “State employees covered by MOSERS can be confident their retirement funds will be used solely for their benefit and meeting their pension obligations,” he said. The vote is a reaction to contributions made this year by the Missouri Sheriffs’ Retirement System and Prosecuting Attorneys and Circuit Attorneys Retirement System. On Oct. 2, the sheriffs system gave $30,000 to support passage of Amendment 6, which would have imposed fees on criminal cases to fund pensions for sheriffs and prosecutors. The prosecutors system on Oct. 8 gave $50,000 to the campaign. Voters rejected Amendment 6 by a margin of 61% to 39%. If retirement funds became involved regularly in politics, the donations could be larger than any seen in state history. MOSERS covers most state employees, but it is not the only system for state workers nor is it the largest retirement fund operated by the state. The fund for Missouri Department of Transportation workers and Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers has $3.7 billion in assets. Education employees are covered by a fund known as PSRS/PEERS, which held $55 billion in assets June 30, 2023. And many local government employees are enrolled in LAGERS, which has about $11 billion in assets. The Independent sought reaction to the MOSERS action and the plans for legislation from executive staff at all three funds but did not receive an immediate response. Amendment 6 would have allowed collection of a $3 fee per case where a guilty verdict or plea is reached in criminal cases to fund sheriff’s pensions and $4 per case to fund the pensions for prosecutors. The fees had been in place for years, but in 2021, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that they were an unconstitutional bar to the courts, which are to be open to all and where “justice shall be administered without sale, denial or delay.” During calendar year 2023, without the fees, the sheriffs fund received $89,502 in contributions, had $38.4 million in assets and had lost $15 million in value over the previous two years. To shore up its finances, lawmakers this year appropriated $5 million in general revenue to the sheriffs fund. The prosecutors fund does not have a website where its financial statements can be found. Melissa Lorts, the treasurer of the Amendment 6 campaign committee, is also executive director of the sheriffs’ retirement system. She did not respond to a request for comment. During the campaign, she said the donations were a responsible use of the pension funds. “I have a legal opinion, and these are not public dollars,” Lorts said. “I’m not a political subdivision, and they’re not public dollars.” Other lawmakers also raised questions about the donations.

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