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All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

ABSTRACT: The golden age of digital chips seems to be coming to an end. For decades, we have relied on making transistors smaller and increasing clock speeds to improve performance. However, when chip ...

Abstract: How to improve energy efficiency and transmission efficiency for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) through dynamic routing is a challenge. This paper introduces MADII, an adaptive routing ...

A notorious cybercriminal group has shifted its attention to the aviation industry, successfully breaching the computer networks of multiple airlines in the United States and Canada this month, ...

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Microsoft warns that Chinese cyber-espionage threat group 'Silk Typhoon' has shifted its tactics, now targeting remote management tools and cloud services in supply chain attacks that give them access ...

AgentKit offers more deterministic and flexible routing, works with multiple model providers, embraces MCP (for rich tooling), and supports the unstoppable and growing community of TypeScript AI ...

Palo Alto Networks is warning that hackers are exploiting the CVE-2024-3393 denial of service vulnerability to disable firewall protections by forcing it to reboot. Leveraging the security issue ...

Abstract: Traditional routing protocols, such as RIP and OSPF, encounter a series of issues—including slow convergence and high average latency—when faced with the exponential growth of network ...