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Today, December 5, was an important day in the artificial intelligence space. Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar met social media platforms to review progress made by them in tackling the issue of deepfakes, and misinformation in general. New advisories for compliance are expected to be released. Meta Platforms and IBM have joined an AI alliance with 40 other organizations to create an industry group dedicated to open-source AI work, aiming to share technology and reduce risks. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let…

Too Long; Didn't ReadA non-interactive ZK (NIZK) proof enables verification of NP statements without revealing secrets about them. However, an adversary that obtains a NIZK proof may be able to clone this proof and distribute arbitrarily many copies of it to various entities: this is inevitable for any proof that takes the form of a classical string. In this paper, we ask whether it is possible to rely on quantum information in order to build NIZK proof systems that are impossible to clone. We define and construct…

Nintendo has announced that two new retro Zelda games — The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons — are now available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers on the standard $3.99-per-month package.I’ve been patiently waiting for this moment since Nintendo announced it was introducing Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance games to the service back in February. Released back in 2001, Oracle of Ages/Seasons are two of the most underrated titles within the retro Legend of Zelda…

Nintendo has added classic Zelda games Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages to Nintendo Switch Online, its $20 yearly retro game subscription service.Originally released in 2001 for the Game Boy Color, Oracle of Seasons and Ages are twin Zelda games that see protagonist Link transported to different worlds to save captured Oracles Din and Nayru. Oracle of Seasons grants Link the Rod of Seasons, which allows him to change the seasons in order to solve puzzles and progress to new area, while Oracle of Ages…

We’ve already had one legendary Legend of Zelda game released in 2023, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more. Starting today, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons are now available for the Nintendo Switch Online service. Like with other classic Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles, you only need the standard NSO subscription to access these two bizarre and wonderful games. If you missed out on the Oracle titles, the games are the product of a developer known as Flagship,…

The very first tweet of Jack Dorsey, whose non-fungible token (NFT) was sold for a whopping $2.9 million in 2021, now has a paltry price of less than $2,000.Iranian-born crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Dorsey's first-ever tweet that read "Just setting up my twttr" as an NFT for $2.9 million.He listed the NFT for sale again at $48 million in April 2022."I decided to sell this NFT (the world's first ever tweet) and donate 50 per cent of the proceeds ($25 million or more) to the charity," he had posted…

Microsoft India president Anant Maheshwari has resigned from his post and will move out of the company to pursue other interests, sources told ET. The company confirmed Maheshwari’s exit in a statement. “We can confirm that Anant has decided to leave Microsoft to pursue a role outside the company. We would like to thank Anant for his many contributions to our business and culture in India and wish him every success in his future endeavors,” a spokesperson for the company said. Maheshwari, who has served at the top level…

Led by Microsoft, global revenue for the public cloud services market reached $545.8 billion last year, an increase of 22.9 per cent over 2021, according to a new report.Top 5 public cloud service providers - Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Google, and Oracle - captured more than 41 per cent of the worldwide total and growing 27.3 per cent year over year, according to the latest IDC data.With offerings in all four deployment categories, Microsoft remained in the top position in the overall public cloud…

In this article, I will show you how to quickly create an entirely free app using a JavaScript program that runs within the free Oracle database and calls Hugging Face AI, the results of which are stored in the database and can then be accessed using SQL, JSON, REST, or any other language. All of the source code is available here. A common flow of applications in general and AI applications specifically involves an app calling an AI service and then storing the information in the database where it may be retrieved and…

Yet another company is tapping into the world of generative AI. US-based tech giant Oracle has announced that it will use generative AI capabilities to boost human resources processes. According to the company, the AI capabilities will help to transform candidate, employee, manager, and HR team productivity by streamlining processes and automating content generation within a single integrated solution. Newly embedded generative AI capabilitiesOne of the key generative AI features Oracle wants to use is assisted authoring,…