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Microsoft PowerToys update makes your mouse smarter in Windows

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The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Microsoft's latest PowerToys update adds new mouse utilities, Command Palette improvements, and more. Microsoft's PowerToys are a free collection of utilities that add extra features and customization options to Windows. It's a bit like a tool drawer, as PCWorld explains here .


Hackers are hijacking Plex servers to mine crypto. Update ASAP

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The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Hackers are hijacking Plex servers to mine crypto. A chain of four Plex vulnerabilities lets attackers run malicious code on unpatched Plex servers without logging in. Security researchers have discovered that hackers are actively exploiting four vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server, the popular app that's used to stream films, TV shows, music, and other digital content from your own PC, server, or NAS device.


Windows 11's audio bug that's crashing games and apps is now fixed

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The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 11's audio bug that's crashing games and apps is now fixed Microsoft's October update KB5127648 fixes Windows 11's AC-3 audio crashes in games and apps. Back in September, Microsoft released optional preview update KB5124010, which caused issues with Windows 11's built-in decoding of Dolby Digital AC-3 audio . The bug caused some games and apps to crash when changing volume or using certain audio functions.


Windows 11's October update blocks Smart App Control. Here's the fix

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The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Windows 11's October update blocks Smart App Control. Microsoft has no permanent fix yet for the Smart App Control bug in update KB5127648. Until then, here's how to get it working.


Microsoft claims Windows 11 is up to 20% faster. Here's what changed

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The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Microsoft claims Windows 11 is up to 20% faster. The Start menu, File Explorer, Search, and updates are all faster, Microsoft says. The gains will be most felt on systems with 8GB of RAM or less.


Calendar invite scams jumped 10x in a month. Here's how to avoid them

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The Dell Laptop Buying Guide UK: Which Dell Laptop Should You Buy? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Calendar invite scams jumped 10x in a month. Here's how to avoid them Got an unexpected meeting invite from a stranger? Scammers are hiding malicious links in calendar events to steal your passwords and details. Calendar invites have long been an avenue for scams, but there's been a surge in these kinds of attacks recently.



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Neural Information Processing Systems

Ourapproach, Exploration through Learned Language Abstraction (ELLA) providesintermediate rewards to an agent for completing relevant low-level behaviors as it tries to solve a complex, sparse rewardtask.


Teachable Reinforcement Learningvia Advice Distillation

Neural Information Processing Systems

Colorsdesignatesupervision used: shadesofblue = highleveladvice; red = lowleveladvice; black = oracledemonstrations; gray = shaped rewards. Figure 6: "Bestadvice" is OffsetAdvice.


A Long-Duration Autonomy Approach to Connected and Automated Vehicles

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

A Long-Duration Autonomy Approach to Connected and Automated V ehicles Logan E. Beaver, Member, IEEE Abstract --In this article, we present a long-duration autonomy approach for the control of connected and automated vehicles (CA Vs) operating in a transportation network. In particular, we focus on the performance of CA Vs at traffic bottlenecks, including roundabouts, merging roadways, and intersections. We take a principled approach based on optimal control, and derive a reactive controller with guarantees on safety, performance, and energy efficiency. We guarantee safety through high order control barrier functions (HOCBFs), which we "lift" to first order CBFs using time-optimal motion primitives. We demonstrate the performance of our approach in simulation and compare it to an optimal control-based approach. Index T erms --autonomous systems, connected vehicles, long-duration autonomy, barrier functions I. I NTRODUCTION C ONNECTED and automated vehicles (CA Vs) continue to proliferate transportation networks. As a result, it is critical for us to develop control algorithms that are computationally efficient, provably safe, and produce energy-efficient trajectories.