Local design studio I IN has updated the reception lounge for a Tokyo office, adding a verdant plant centrepiece and a sculptural ceramic installation.Located in Museum Tower Kyobashi, a Nikken Sekkei-designed building that is home to an art museum, I IN wanted the reception to nod to the function of the building and chose the concept of "Work with Art" for the redesign.The lounge is located in Museum Tower Kyobashi"Kyobashi in Tokyo, where the building is located, has long been home to many small galleries," I IN told Dezeen. "This building was constructed five years ago in such a location and is a rare office building in Japan that houses an art museum.""At this five-year milestone, the interior was remodelled with the aim of merging art with sensibility and work with reason, creating a chemical reaction between the two," it added.A marble planter sits at the centre of the roomI IN wanted the lounge to function as an in-between space between the office and the home."We designed the lobby to serve as a grey area between 'on' and 'off', functioning as neither an office nor a home," I IN said."Of course, there are workplaces in the building, along with a place to eat and a garden on the roof," it continued. "However, there was no living space. Therefore, we decided to design the lobby as a 'living lounge'."Plants reference the old Tokyo landscapeThe studio, which is led by Yohei Terui and Hiromu Yuyama, wanted to give the space a "warm expression" without removing the existing elements. It added lighting between the ceiling louvres, comfortable furniture and a carpet in a tan-and-beige hue.At the centre of the room, I IN placed a granite planter that was filled with plants and moss, making it resemble a forest floor."We decided to install greenery as a symbol of the lively 'living lounge', evoking a sense of vitality," I IN explained. "The theme for the building's rooftop garden was 'Musashino Forest'. Musashino is a location in Tokyo that represents the old, original landscape of the city."Read: Tile-clad Tokyo toilets are drenched in bright green and yellow light"A mountain erupts, lava flows, moss grows on the rocks, and over time, the area transforms into a forest," the studio continued."The types and sizes of the plants were selected based on this concept, imagining what the landscape would look like five years from now the same period as the building's history after the forest begins to form."I IN designed sculptures made from ceramic louvresNikken Sekkei's design of Museum Tower Kyobashi features multi-sectional louvres and a curved roof that references traditional Japanese architecture.I IN drew on this exterior when creating the reception lounge, which features a sculptural ceramic installation of hanging louvres."The louvres on the facade were designed with a shape that allows light into the building in a rational way, based on precise calculations of sunlight changes," I IN said. "We thought this design symbolized the building's intelligence."These were designed to "appeal to people's senses""While the cool, rational louvres on the facade are made of aluminium, we created louvres of the same shape using ceramic, a material derived from nature," it added."We hoped the design would appeal to people's senses, feeling warm to the touch, and arranged them randomly to create the impression of them fluttering in the wind."I IN has previously created toilets drenched in bright green and yellow light and overhauled a 1980s apartment in Tokyo.The photography is by Tomooki Kengaku.The post I IN creates "living lounge" for Tokyo office in museum building appeared first on Dezeen.

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Alongside its famously gorgeous landscape and cityscape screensavers, Apple TV 4K set top boxes now feature animated Snoopy screensavers. Here's how to get them onto your Mac.You can get Apple TV 4K's Snoopy screensavers onto your MacSince Apple TV acquired the rights to screen classic "Charlie Brown" shows, and make new ones, it also added the cartoon's Snoopy to the Apple Watch. Then from tvOS 18.2, Apple TV 4K has gained four animated Snoopy screensavers.Getting them from Apple TV to your Mac turns out to take many steps, but they're each quite simple. And the reward for your efforts is to see: Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally on the horizon, and it will bring with it a fresh wave of new first-party exclusives from Nintendo. That, of course, is the big thing for Nintendo fans to look forward to. Interestingly enough, however, a prominent leaker has claimed that the company also still has another major title in the pipeline for the current Switch.Known insider PH Brazil has claimed the same on his O X do Controle podcast and in a follow-up message on the Famiboards forums. The leaker claims the current Switch is still going to get one final big game. That game is in a somewhat niche franchise, and it is not going to be a remaster, its claimed.PH Brazil has also doubled down on recent rumours that before its Switch 2 Direct in April, Nintendo also has a Switch 1-focused Direct scheduled for February. Its likely that that is where we will see whatever this mystery title is, if it is indeed real.Currently, Nintendo hasXenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond,andPokemon Legends: Z-Aconfirmed for launch on the Nintendo Switch this year. Donkey Kong Country Returns HDreleased for the platform last week.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order telling the Department of Justice to not enforce a rule that demands TikTok spin off from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban.The order, issued on Trumps first day of office, is meant to effectively extend the deadline for a sale by undercutting penalties on American companies like Apple and Google working with TikTok. It directs the Attorney General not to take any action to enforce the Act for a period of 75 days from today to allow my Administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward in an orderly way. The AG is supposed to issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred.The order furthermore instructs the Department of Justice to take no action to enforce the Act or impose any penalties against any entity for any noncompliance with the Act and says they should be barred from doing so for any conduct that occurred during the above-specified period or any period prior to the issuance of this order, including the period of time from January 19, 2025, to the signing of this order.Trump, who issued an executive order banning TikTok during his first term in 2020, is now trying to circumvent a bipartisan law that took effect January 19th. He posted on Truth Social before taking office that he was asking companies to keep working with TikTok, a move that could mean risking hundreds of billions of dollars in fines if Trumps assurances dont stand up in court. TikTok briefly went down on Sunday but quickly came back online though it was removed from Apple and Googles app stores and has not come back.Its unclear whether Trump can legally pause the TikTok ban. The law allowed for a 90-day extension if ByteDance announced a sale to a non-foreign adversary-based company before the deadline, but not only has no such sale been announced, its legally ambiguous whether the extension can be used after the 19th. Trump, in any case, isnt so far using the deadline hes just attempting to override the law.Despite that reassurance, it still may not be enough to convince service providers covered by the law to reinstate TikTok. As many legal experts have pointed out, those companies could face up to about $850 billion in potential penalties for violating the law which was passed by a bipartisan Congress, signed by former President Joe Biden, and upheld by the entire Supreme Court. The government could act on any potential violation even five years after it happens and an executive order doesnt change that, though it might help give the companies a slightly better due process defense to fight it. Companies still might not risk litigation over such a large potential fine, though they may also be wary of raising Trumps ire by refusing to work with TikTok.On top of all this, the rule the order says its not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, which makes it even less reliable as a defense for companies.Trump also declared on Sunday that the US government will own 50 percent of TikTok through an unexplained joint venture with a private company. It remains unclear how this would work.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in natural language processing, excelling in tasks like understanding, generation, and reasoning. However, challenges remain. Achieving robust reasoning often requires extensive supervised fine-tuning, which limits scalability and generalization. Furthermore, issues like poor readability and balancing computational efficiency with reasoning complexity persist, prompting researchers to explore new approaches.DeepSeek-R1: A New Approach to LLM ReasoningDeepSeek-AIs recent work introduces DeepSeek-R1, a model designed to enhance reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning (RL). This effort resulted in two models:DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which is trained solely with RL and demonstrates emergent reasoning behaviors such as long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning.DeepSeek-R1, which builds on its predecessor by incorporating a multi-stage training pipeline, addressing challenges like readability and language mixing while maintaining high reasoning performance.These models aim to overcome existing limitations, combining innovative RL techniques with structured training processes to achieve scalability and usability.Technical Innovations and Benefits1. Reinforcement Learning on Reasoning Tasks: DeepSeek-R1-Zero employs RL without relying on supervised data. Using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), it optimizes reasoning by evaluating multiple outputs, significantly improving benchmark performance. For example, its AIME 2024 pass@1 score rose from 15.6% to 71.0% during training.2. Multi-Stage Training in DeepSeek-R1: DeepSeek-R1 incorporates cold-start datathousands of curated CoT examplesto fine-tune its base model before undergoing reasoning-focused RL. This process ensures outputs are both coherent and user-friendly by incorporating language consistency rewards.3. Distillation for Smaller Models: To address computational constraints, DeepSeek-AI distilled six smaller models (1.5B to 70B parameters) from DeepSeek-R1 using Qwen and Llama architectures. These models retain strong reasoning capabilities, with the 14B distilled model achieving a pass@1 score of 69.7% on AIME 2024, outperforming some larger models.Results: Performance InsightsDeepSeek-R1s performance is supported by benchmark results:Reasoning Benchmarks:AIME 2024: 79.8% pass@1, surpassing OpenAIs o1-mini.MATH-500: 97.3% pass@1, comparable to OpenAI-o1-1217.GPQA Diamond: 71.5% pass@1, excelling in fact-based reasoning.Coding and STEM Tasks:Codeforces Elo rating: 2029, outperforming 96.3% of human participants.SWE-Bench Verified: 49.2% resolution rate, competitive with other leading models.General Capabilities:Strong generalization was demonstrated on ArenaHard and AlpacaEval 2.0 benchmarks, achieving 92.3% and 87.6% win rates, respectively.Distilled Model Highlights: Smaller models like DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B show strong performance, with a pass@1 score of 72.6% on AIME 2024, demonstrating effective scalability and practicality.Conclusion: Refining Reasoning in AIDeepSeek-AIs DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero represent meaningful advancements in reasoning capabilities for LLMs. By leveraging RL, cold-start data, and distillation techniques, these models address critical limitations while promoting accessibility through open-source availability under the MIT License. The API (model=deepseek-reasoner) further enhances usability for developers and researchers.Looking ahead, DeepSeek-AI plans to refine multilingual support, enhance software engineering capabilities, and improve prompt sensitivity. These efforts aim to further establish DeepSeek-R1 as a robust solution for reasoning-focused AI applications. By integrating thoughtful training paradigms, DeepSeek-R1 illustrates how AI can advance toward addressing increasingly complex challenges.Check out the Paper, DeepSeek R1 and DeepSeek R1 Zero. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our65k+ ML SubReddit. [Recommended Read] Nebius AI Studio expands with vision models, new language models, embeddings and LoRA (Promoted)The post DeepSeek-AI Releases DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1: First-Generation Reasoning Models that Incentivize Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Jan 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber ThreatThe Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests.The AnyDesk requests claim to be for conducting an audit to assess the "level of security," CERT-UA added, cautioning organizations to be on the lookout for such social engineering attempts that seek to exploit user trust."It is important to note that CERT-UA may, under certain circumstances, use remote access software such as AnyDesk," CERT-UA said. "However, such actions are taken only after prior agreement with the owners of objects of cyber defense through officially approved communication channels."However, for this attack to succeed, it's necessary that the AnyDesk remote access software is installed and operational on the target's computer. It also requires the attacker to be in possession of the target's AnyDesk identifier, suggesting that they may have to first obtain the identifier through other methods.To mitigate the risk posed by these attacks, it's essential that remote access programs are enabled only for the duration of their use and the remote access is coordinated through official communication channels.News of the campaign comes as Ukraine's State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) revealed that the cyber agency's incident response center detected over 1,042 incidents in 2024, with malicious code and intrusion efforts accounting for more than 75% of all the events."In 2024, the most active cyber threat clusters were UAC-0010, UAC-0050, and UAC-0006, specializing in cyber espionage, financial theft, and information-psychological operations," the SSSCIP said.UAC-0010, also known as Aqua Blizzard and Gamaredon, is estimated to be behind 277 incidents. UAC-0050 and UAC-0006 have been found to be linked to 99 and 174 incidents, respectively.The development also follows the discovery of 24 previously unreported .shop top-level domains likely associated with the pro-Russian hacking group known as GhostWriter (aka TA445, UAC-0057, and UNC1151) by connecting disparate campaigns targeting Ukraine last year.An analysis undertaken by security researcher Will Thomas (@BushidoToken) found that the domains used in these campaigns used the same generic top-level domain (gTLD), the PublicDomainsRegistry registrar, and Cloudflare name servers. All the identified servers also have a robots.txt directory configured.As the Russo-Ukrainian war approaches the end of its third year, cyber-attacks have also been recorded against Russia with an aim to steal sensitive data and disrupt business operations by deploying ransomware.Last week, cybersecurity company F.A.C.C.T. attributed the Sticky Werewolf actor to a spear-phishing campaign directed against Russian research and production enterprises to deliver a remote access trojan known as Ozone that's capable of granting remote access to infected Windows systems.It also described Sticky Werewolf as a pro-Ukrainian cyberspy group that mainly singles out state institutions, research institutes, and industrial enterprises in Russia. However, a previous analysis from Israeli cybersecurity company Morphisec pointed out that this connection "remains uncertain."It's not known how successful these attacks were. Some of the other threat activity clusters that have been observed targeting Russian entities in recent months include Core Werewolf, Venture Wolf, and Paper Werewolf (aka GOFFEE), the last of which has leveraged a malicious IIS module called Owowa to facilitate credential theft.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Looking forthe most recentMini Crossword answer?Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.The NYT Mini Crossword clue that stumped me today was 4-Down, "Ones working with meters and feet." So...people who measure things? Architects? Designers? Even the fairly simple Mini Crossword likes to trick you, and this clue is referring to a completely different type of meters and feet. I feel like I should have known this as an English major, but admittedly, college was a long time ago. Need some more help with today's Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times' games collection. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visitCNET's NYT puzzle hints page.Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini CrosswordLet's get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers. The completed Mini Crossword puzzle for Jan. 21, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNETMini across clues and answers1A clue: Kinda wetAnswer: DAMP5A clue: StandoffishAnswer: ALOOF7A clue: Creature on a lifeboat with Pi, in "Life of Pi"Answer: TIGER8A clue: Less than 90Answer: ACUTE9A clue: "What ___ is new?"Answer: ELSEMini down clues and answers1D clue: What hasn't been processed if it's rawAnswer: DATA2D clue: Character who climbs through the looking glassAnswer: ALICE3D clue: TycoonAnswer: MOGUL4D clue: Ones working with meters and feet?Answer: POETS6D clue: ComplimentaryAnswer: FREEHow to play more Mini CrosswordsThe New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day's Mini Crossword for free, but you'll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.

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"Everything changes!".We've seemingly had our very first look at Mario Kart 9 during the Switch 2 reveal trailer, and one thing you might have noticed is the similar but slightly different-looking character designs.Perhaps the highlight is Donkey Kong's new look, which has been labelled a redesign. It's been a bit of a talking point within the DK and Super Mario fandom, and now we've actually got a response from the artist who was behind DK's modern (and arguably most iconic) look - former Rare and Donkey Kong Country veteran, Kevin Bayliss.Read the full article on nintendolife.com