Eminem files lawsuit against Swim Shady for trademark infringement issues
17 Nov

Eminem files lawsuit against Swim Shady for trademark infringement issues

Music
​ Eminem has launched legal action against the Australian beach brand Swim Shady, alleging its name is too close to that of his trademarked alter ego, Slim Shady. The 53-year-old rapper, real name Marshall B Mathers III, filed a petition to cancel Swim Shady’s US trademark days after it was successfully granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in September. Eminem’s petition to USPTO argues Swim Shady’s name could cause confusion and that it falsely suggests he has links to the Sydney-based company, which sells umbrellas for sun protection, swim bags, towels and shorts. The rapper is…
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Impact of politics and work on women’s religious practices and beliefs
17 Nov

Impact of politics and work on women’s religious practices and beliefs

Politics
The recent Pew Religious Landscape contains both good and bad news for women’s religious participation. The good news is that women are still more religious than men and have not suddenly left religion en masse. The bad news is that women’s religiosity is approaching men’s levels, and that’s a new phenomenon. So what has changed? Women have traditionally been more religious than men. According to Pew’s Religious Landscape Survey, women have been more religious than men in each birth cohort until the 1980s. Then, among millennials and younger, the faith gap between genders begins to close. It’s tempting to interpret…
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Microsoft fixes Windows 10 update flaw 
17 Nov

Microsoft fixes Windows 10 update flaw 

High Tech News
It didn’t take long for some IT leaders who last month started paying to get Windows 10 security updates to face their first support problem. Microsoft said the update issued last week on November Patch Tuesday — KB5068781 for Windows 10 22H2 builds 19044.6575 and 19045.6575 —  might fail to install on some commercial Windows 10 devices enrolled to receive Extended Security Updates (ESU). When attempts are made to install this patch, screens may show “error 0x800f0922 (CBS_E_INSTALLERS_FAILED). “This issue is isolated to devices activated via Windows subscription activation through the Microsoft 365 admin center,” Microsoft said in a status statement on…
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Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus move seen as a rethinking of AI IT strategy 
17 Nov

Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus move seen as a rethinking of AI IT strategy 

High Tech News
When reports came out on Monday that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is pouring $6.2 billion into another AI startup, to be called Project Prometheus, analysts and practitioners disagreed about what the move means for the near term future of AI and IT. The company will initially focus on manufacturing systems and engineering, as well as, of course, spacecraft. The idea is to move AI efforts from LLM models to more concrete physical systems. Bezos will hold the title of Co-CEO. However, given the fact that AI in various forms has dominated in such environments for more than a decade, particulars…
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Focal Loss vs Binary Cross-Entropy: Effective Strategies for Imbalanced Classification
17 Nov

Focal Loss vs Binary Cross-Entropy: Effective Strategies for Imbalanced Classification

AI
Binary cross-entropy (BCE) is the default loss function for binary classification—but it breaks down badly on imbalanced datasets. The reason is subtle but important: BCE weighs mistakes from both classes equally, even when one class is extremely rare.  Imagine two predictions: a minority-class sample with true label 1 predicted at 0.3, and a majority-class sample with true label 0 predicted at 0.7. Both produce the same BCE value: −log(0.3). But should these two errors be treated equally? In an imbalanced dataset, definitely not—the mistake on the minority sample is far more costly.  This is exactly where Focal Loss comes in.…
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