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Frederick Munawa is a Technology Reporter for Coindesk.He covers blockchain protocols with a specific focus on bitcoin and bitcoin-adjacent networks.The catalyst will be increased functionality from new features including covenants and script updates, according to Neigut.Covenants such as bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP) 118 (also known as SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT, or APO for short) are Bitcoin smart contracts that put constraints on how a bitcoin ( BTC) can be spent.

The US Supreme Court left in place the conviction of attorney Steven Donziger a long-time foe of Chevron Corp. who sought to challenge the appointment of private attorneys to prosecute criminal contempt of court.In the 1990s, Donziger represented thousands of farmers and indigenous people who, he said, suffered environmental and health problems caused by oil drilling in Ecuador.

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Danny is CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Data & Tokens.He owns BTC, ETH and SOL.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol ROOK seems to get more attention these days for its multimillion-dollar crypto treasury than its progress in its actual business of building tools for the Ethereum blockchain.

Bitcoin privacy firm zkSNACKs has reinstated coin control in the latest iteration of its Wasabi wallet.Coin control allows users to manually select the most private address and output configuration when sending bitcoin ( BTC).Last year's Wasabi 2.0 upgrade had introduced a more automated version of coin control called "privacy control" - much to the chagrin of Wasabi's power users.

The success of ChatGPT and its competitors is based on what's termed emergent behaviors.These systems, called large language models (LLMs), weren't trained to output natural-sounding language (or effective malware); they were simply tasked with tracking the statistics of word usage.But, given a large enough training set of language samples and a sufficiently complex neural network, their training resulted in an internal representation that "understood" English usage and a large compendium of facts.

There are between a dozen and 20 active cases taken against the State over private nursing home charges that could result in further liabilities, a committee has heard.he Oireachtas Health Committee was told there were over 100 "live" cases but that only a fraction of them were considered to be active and could result in further liabilities.

Raw concrete surfaces are softened by timber and plenty of daylight inside these Mexican houses, rounded up here as part of our latest lookbook.Many of these brutalist interiors leave their concrete shells exposed and their cavernous rooms largely unadorned.But freed of the constraints posed by frigid temperatures, they also create a greater connection to the outside, whether overlooking Puerto Escondido's wave-swept beaches or nestled in the bustling metropolis of Mexico City.

Local studio Atelier Data has built the Praia Grande house in Portugal's Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, which is made from five interconnected volumes and features a swimming pool designed to look like a pond.Atelier Data's Praia Grande consists of five volumes clad in metal-sheet facades and finished in projected cork.

Constraints form a major part of a designer's process.Whether it's constraints based on materials, manufacturing capabilities, technology, or even just budget constraints, designers work well within those boundaries to create the best solutions possible... but what if there were absolutely no constraints?

22 minutes ago22 minutes ago President Emmanuel Macron's first high-profile trip in weeks was to a picturesque Alpine village far from Paris' currently restless streets.He said he his government must "continue working," despite the protests.French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday laid out plans to tackle water crisis, briefly escaping daily protests against pension reform plans that have roiled the country for weeks.

The Taoiseach has accused opposition TDs of political theatre and performative anger as the Dail prepares for a confidence vote.The Labour Party tabled a motion of no confidence in the Government over the ending of the evictions ban this week.After a Government amendment, the Dail will vote on a motion that reaffirms its confidence in the Government instead.

The question of whether you are stressed or not is often difficult to answer.Stress doesn't always make itself known and it can take the form of an overwhelming feeling that something just isn't right in your life.When you feel this way, it's time to take action to prevent burnout and stress before they happen.

A measure that would allow multiple occupancy public restrooms to be labeled gender-neutral was passed by the Illinois House on Thursday with the bare minimum of votes.The bill, which now moves to the Senate, would amend the Equitable Restroom Act of 2019, which required all single-occupancy public restrooms to be available to all genders.

Boris Johnson was questioned about events in Downing Street during the Covid lockdown and his subsequent statements to MPs, for around three hours on Wednesday.But in the marathon session, there were several key moments cut straight to the heart of the committee's remit to find out whether the former prime minister deliberately misled the House of Commons.

"I suspect that, no matter what the Court does, the need for excellent lawyering on the enablement question in future cases is not going away.A clear statement of the test is not going to provide certainty as to the outcome in particular cases."On Monday, March 27, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Amgen v. Sanofi, a case with the parties and 27 Amici, including the United States, weighing in on whether and how the Court should address the enablement requirement of Section 112 in the context of genus claims, and in particular, genus claims to antibodies in the pharmaceutical sciences.

ChatGPT, the AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm over the past few months.It took Netflix 3.5 years to reach one million users, Facebook ten months and Spotify five months.ChatGPT got to the first million users in five days.In two months after that, ChatGPT reached 100 million active monthly users.

This story was first published in Friday morning's Daily Post.If you want all of the important local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings.BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
A board member of the Palo Alto Unified School District has sent a letter to Palo Alto City Council inviting a potential land deal at Cubberley Community Center with the hopes of jump-starting negotiations over the crumbling site.

You walk into your garage, and you can't believe your eyes: a brand-new, sparkling F-250 sits there in all its glory.The black truck has the legendary 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel engine markings on the side, the Platinum trim designation, and all the exterior bells and whistles you could ever want.

I had big plans for my video interview with lifestyle influencer and tidiness guru Marie Kondo.The view of my home office would be immaculate; the stacks of old reporter's notebooks would move to the great beyond (the trash), the gag-gift bobblehead of Andrew Cuomo would go to its forever home (the trash), and the clean laundry hanging off my husband's office chair would migrate to its rightful place (a pile on the bed).

As a second-generation British Pakistani growing up in Bradford, I was surrounded by Urdu and smatterings of Punjabi.English came later, and I can remember not being able to understand my teacher on the first day of nursery.This was all part of my parents' plan: to speak in Urdu to my siblings and I because they knew we would learn English at school.

The screams of hundreds of schoolchildren ring through the atrium of the National Building Museum."Ahhhhh!"they cry, waving their hands in the air at the adult emcee who's babbling like an auctioneer before them.She's getting them hyped to see Phillipe Petit-the famed wirewalker who, in 1974, illegally traversed the sky between the Twin Towers in Manhattan.

Quality attributes tactics are strategies and techniques that are used to improve the quality of a software system.Quality attributes refer to the characteristics or features of a system that are important to its users or stakeholders, such as performance, reliability, security, and usability.There are several common quality attributes tactics that are used to improve the quality of a system.

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In the cloud era, senior executives are investing in key capabilities like DevOps with the expectation this will accelerate innovation and bring new digital products to market faster.To deliver on these goals, enterprise organizations seek to deploy high-quality code faster and more frequently, but they face a organizational, process and technology complexity that can hinder this objective, slowing throughput and incurring high error rates.

Despite the volatile mortgage rate environment and overall economic uncertainty, homebuilder confidence slowly continues to rise, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report, released Wednesday.In March, homebuilder sentiment in the market for newly built single-family homes rose two points from February's reading, to an index value of 44.

Atelier Data built the Praia Grande house in Portugal's Sintra-Cascais Natural Park.The home is constructed using five volumes that have been clad in metal-sheet facades and provided with a finishing of projected cork.The house also features a swimming pool that has been made to resemble a pond.The five volumes have been placed to cover up the empty space between the protected trees in the national park.

Here is what it will take for any team to trade for Lamar Jackson with the Baltimore Ravens.The Baltimore Ravens used the non-exclusive franchise tag on Lamar Jackson, but few, if any, NFL teams are willing to part ways with two first-round picks for him.Baltimore was rather sneaky in using the non-exclusive tag for this reason.

Lakers fans were finally allowed the luxury of one long collective sigh of relief yesterday evening, when they finally dealt Russell Westbrook away and got an absolute haul in return with players like D'Angelo Russell, Jarred Vanderbilt, and Malik Beasley.While the Lakers may still be celebrating their successful trade, now could be the time for the Chicago Bulls to make a sneaky good pickup in free agency.

When graphic designer Aaron Marin started making black and white collage work, it immediately grabbed our attention.They're evocative and undeniably eye catching, so it's ironic that Aaron tells us they're "a simple exercise in creating under restraint".Back when Aaron was first getting into photography, he became "inundated with too many variables in the process of creating", and thus found it harder to make art.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday asked parties involved in a major voting rights case out of North Carolina to file additional briefs to address new developments that occurred in the state after the justices heard oral arguments in the dispute last year.The request comes as some believe the blockbuster case might eventually be rendered moot depending on what happens in state courts.

Meta reported that its fourth-quarter results showed its biggest loss yet for its metaverse division, and it reminds us that Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse is still very expensive.The company's losses in its VR division (Meta Reality Labs) hit $4.279 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with an operating loss of $3.304 billion in the same quarter a year ago.