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It is unofficially official: Galaxy Unpacked date revealed in leaked Samsung teaser

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It is unofficially official: Galaxy Unpacked date revealed in leaked Samsung teaser


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TL;DR

  • Trusted tipster Evan Blass has leaked an official-looking poster for the launch of the Galaxy S26 collection.
  • The picture confirms that the following Galaxy Unpacked occasion will occur on February 25, the place Samsung is predicted to debut its new flagships and the Galaxy Buds 4 lineup.
  • The Galaxy S26 collection is rumored to go on open sale nearer to mid-March.

The primary month of the yr is nearly out, with no official announcement from Samsung about its subsequent set of flagship telephones. Whereas the corporate has confirmed they’ll arrive within the first half of the yr, and plenty of of you probably have already got a good suggestion of when, that acquainted pre-launch hype has but to kick in. All we now have until now could be a teaser for the upcoming Privateness Show characteristic the corporate is cooking up for the Galaxy S26 Extremely. Now, trusted leaker Evan Blass has shared what seems to be an official Samsung teaser with the launch date printed entrance and heart.

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That is yet one more affirmation that the Galaxy S26 collection will arrive on February 25, a full month after the Galaxy S25 collection launched in January final yr.

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Regardless of the delayed launch this yr, attributed to Samsung’s last-minute lineup shakeup and the purported cancellation of the Edge mannequin, the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Extremely usually are not anticipated to be out there till March. Particularly, a current leak steered that whereas the telephones will go on pre-order instantly after launch, open gross sales will solely begin from March 11.

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Fierce Storms Expose Nineteenth-Century Maritime Thriller on Jersey Shore : ScienceAlert

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Fierce Storms Expose Nineteenth-Century Maritime Thriller on Jersey Shore : ScienceAlert


The highly effective storms battering the Jersey Shore this winter have revealed the ruins of an outdated picket ship buried beneath sea and sand for almost 140 years.

The vessel, referred to as the Lawrence N. McKenzie, was touring from Puerto Rico to New York Metropolis when it out of the blue sank in 1890.

The crew and passengers all survived, however the ship was by no means seen once more.

Seems, it was hiding beneath a blanket of sand.

Associated: Deep-Sea Shipwreck Hidden For Millennia Is The Oldest Ever Discovered

In a Fb publish on January 23, officers on the New Jersey Island Seashore State Park introduced that the long-lost schooner had out of the blue appeared on the dunes.

Its wreckage had been there all alongside; it had simply taken “weeks of seashore erosion brought on by tough surf and protracted wind and wave motion” to disclose itself, in keeping with park officers.

What’s left of the ship’s picket body now lies in tatters on an undeveloped stretch of the Jersey Shore, awaiting professional evaluation.

“Seashore erosion through the winter months is frequent at Island Seashore State Park and is a part of a pure, cyclical course of. Annually, high-energy waves and seasonal storms take away sand from the shoreline, leading to narrower seashores and steeper profiles,” reads the Island Seashore State Park announcement.

“Most seashores get well from the erosion through the calmer summer season months – however for now, this winter’s erosion has revealed a glimpse into the park’s maritime historical past.”

Whereas seashore erosion is pure through the winter months on Island Seashore State Park – an undeveloped barrier island – scientists have discovered that local weather change might be accelerating the phenomenon.

As sea ranges rise and storms intensify, sea surges threaten to drag away extra sand, and these dunes are an integral barrier towards future storms.

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In the previous few years alone, a number of shipwrecks have been discovered all over the world after excessive climate occasions.

In 2024, coastal storms revealed the remnants of one other outdated schooner in Australia, and in 2025, a shipwreck was uncovered on a seashore in Vietnam after a storm.

Associated: ‘As If Time Froze’: France’s Deepest Shipwreck Stuns Archaeologists

Maybe that is a coincidence, or possibly it is a pattern. This is probably not the final shipwreck that lands in our laps.



Producing Extremely Efficient Decks for My Knowledge Science Class

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Producing Extremely Efficient Decks for My Knowledge Science Class


Right this moment’s submit is in my sequence on utilizing Claude Code for the kind of analysis that utilized social scientists discover necessary, however this time it gained’t be analysis. Reasonably will probably be utilizing Claude Code to make your classroom lecture slides. I will likely be illustrating it “reside coding” so to see what’s doable. This lecture I’m targeted on is day 2 in an undergraduate knowledge science class at Harvard, within the authorities dept. They’re all nonetheless very early of their quantitative careers, and so I needed to give attention to 5 issues:

  1. The rhetoric of quantitative social sciences.

  2. Good empirical workflow (e.g., hierarchical folders, writing good code, automation, model management, replicability)

The video is lengthy at 1 hour and 40 minutes, however it’s like watching me paint a scene as a result of I actually don’t take the place that the optimum technique to do something in Claude Code is simply make some demand on the duty after which watch for it to be accomplished. I’d say I’m simply as intimately concerned within the job as I’d be with out AI. You be the decide for a way nicely I do it.

However the factor I attempt to emphasize on this video is that Claude Code is not only writing the decks for me utilizing latex as a result of it “is aware of methods to code in latex”. I feel that’s really the superficial understanding. It’s not merely doing that. Reasonably, it has as I’ve stated earlier than absorbed the tacit data concerned in what nice audio system who use decks to speak know however have in all probability by no means written down wherever, and should not even know methods to clarify it.

Dictating the Manufacturing of Your Lecture Slides

The way in which that I make my lecture slides utilizing Claude Code is thru exhaustive dictation. Discuss, in different phrases; share your concepts, your aims, the specified method; clarify your private beliefs about pedagogy; elaborate on what your objectives are, who your viewers is; share the massive image define in addition to the tiniest trivialities, because it all seems.

I name this dictation, not vibe coding. You’re creating the lecture by speaking into existence however you’re additionally modifying it always as you learn by means of the looks of every slide, in addition to get a really feel for the rhythm of the speak. So you will note me transfer issues round, tweak issues, strive new issues out, scrap outdated concepts solely, or remark them out.

What’s a terrific about dictation method to developing decks is that you could additionally introduce ideas that you simply solely vaguely take note of. As an example, I throw out a request the Claude Code undertake an method to what I’m recommend whereby the deck follows a rhythm such that the “marginal profit to marginal value ratio” throughout every slide is identical — a sort of “optimum rhetoric”. As an thought for what I would like, that’s each fairly correct and fairly far fetched on the similar. However in my thoughts, I feel I see how the right deck does typically comply with that sort of smoothness. I simply can’t say I possess the talent to do it, or the persistence, however I believe Claude Code can. And unsurprisingly, he does perceive what I imply and may make an try at it in how every slide connects to the following.

Unique theme and .sty file

One of many issues you will note on this video is the best way I requested it mid deck manufacturing to create a special beamer aesthetic design, and so it did — by actually creating from scratch its personal .sty model file!

And so when you watch it, you’ll see the model change the place I went from what felt like fairly boring grays and crimson colours to what I felt like was extra coloration, and extra fascinating kinds all through.

The opposite factor that I ask for are formidable drawings utilizing tikz, the highly effective graphics package deal in latex. Typically what Claude code can do seems like sorcery. Just like the submitting cupboard that he creates. Which I described anecdotally however didn’t explicitly request. I used to be speechless once I noticed it, and particularly after we perfected it collectively, and I’ve been doing this now for 2 months straight, since Thanksgiving actually. And I used to be nonetheless flabbergasted once I noticed it.

So so long as you might be prepared to stay immersed within the inventive and technical course of of manufacturing the deck on your lecture, I feel you will see it extremely helpful — a really actual reworking of the productiveness of your time, at the very least anyway for the modal tutorial. I feel the modal tutorial finds deck creation very tedious and you understand what my proof for that’s?

The truth that all tutorial beamer decks look kind of an identical to 1 one other, and that also they are normally dangerous, particularly mine. Not everyone seems to be born the Michelangelo of creating decks.

A Life Lived in Decks

I feel possibly 40% to 60% of my week entails being in a deck in a roundabout way, form or type. Both I’m making one or I’m utilizing one, however whichever it’s, decks are a nontrivial portion of my life.

Which implies I’m doing one thing with decks commonly. And they’re due to this fact each necessary on the facet of manufacturing and consumption. Getting them proper is due to this fact necessary and in addition very time consuming. Put one other means — time spent on decks has doubtless diminishing marginal returns, and rising marginal prices, and due to this fact we spend an period of time on that the place these two traces cross for every of us, and the standard of what we make is set by that high quality adjusted time use.

Properly that’s nonetheless true. However, I feel what’s modified is that the curves have shifted. Particularly, the marginal value curve has shifted left, and the marginal profit curve has shifted proper. And when that occurs, the period of time you spend on producing your deck is ambiguous — and you’ll see that performed out within the video as I spend an hour forty minutes and I’m not but carried out — however I’d contend that the standard of what you make goes up.

I feel the output to this point has been implausible. The decks have been high-quality tuned to me and my objectives, tailor made to the expertise of those particular college students I take note of. And you may simply search for your self right here at my instructing tab at both Gov 2001 (the PhD likelihood class) or 51 (the undergraduate knowledge science class) to see as I add the lectures in. And as soon as I attain a accomplished deck, I’ll additionally add the .tex file for these of who wish to see that too. Right here as an illustration is the lecture I did on foundational ideas in likelihood for the PhD college students.

Is Claude Code a Stage Shift, a Slope Change, or Each?

Sounds ridiculous to say this, however Claude Code has in all probability modified my life. I used to be attempting to clarify to somebody who makes use of ChatGPT intensively what it’s like. I principally stated “you understand how you felt like pre-ChatGPT you had been doing issues at x=100 however then after ChatGPT got here out, you felt such as you had been doing issues at x=1,000? That is principally like going from x=1,000 to x=1,000^2.

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I do know that it feels like hyperbole to say that, however for me it isn’t hyperbole. It’s all solely attributable to the truth that Claude Code is within the folder with entry to the command line interface and due to this fact all these shell instructions. And I additionally needed to go away you with a couple of anecdotes too. First, listed below are two tweets (I bought this from Ethan Mollick’s LinkedIn). The one on the left is by somebody at OpenAI. The one on the suitable is by Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code. Have a look at what they each say when requested about how a lot of their code is now being produced by AI Brokers. Each of them, pc scientists thoughts you, say that 100% of the coding is now carried out at OpenAI and Claude by AI brokers. Not AI — not the copy-paste technique of taking the output from ChatGPT and placing right into a script. Not the autocorrect technique from Github copilot. No — brokers. Heck, Claude Code wrote 90% of its personal code itself!

Then take a look at this tweet that Andrej Karpathy, founding father of OpenAI, former director of AI at Tesla, stated. Apparently, me and him each began utilizing Claude Code two months in the past. I began I feel the center of November. I vaguely bear in mind utilizing it to do one thing, every week or so earlier than Thanksgiving, which elevated so much over thanksgiving once I had a challenge I wanted carried out, after which extra after that, after which massively throughout the Christmas break, then an enormous enhance in January the place I used to be spending 8-10 hours a day working feverishly prepping courses and ending initiatives that had stalled, to now the place it’s so deeply built-in into my means of working that I can’t even think about a world the place I may do with out it.

The fact is the educational curve in utilizing an AI Agent that will help you along with your courses, significantly writing decks, just isn’t solely flatter than folks assume it’s — it’s simpler. The educational curve could frankly even be negatively sloped for all anybody is aware of. It’s not simply straightforward to be taught; it isn’t even clear to me what you might be needing to be taught. There isn’t any magic “immediate engineering” talent anymore. That day the place you wanted to have some particular capability to speak is lengthy gone, if it ever did exist within the first place — it was actually all the time in all probability exaggerated by a bunch of snake oil salesmen on-line attempting to make a dime out of a nickel as “AI Influencers”.

There’s nothing to be taught greatest I can inform. There’s solely wanted a willingness to try to experiment. However that’s the way it frankly has all the time been with LLMs sensible worth to researchers and academics. Claude Code isn’t any completely different. It’s akin to some sort of magical sandbox the place you may principally dream up castles fabricated from gold and rubies utilizing sand, all utilizing solely your phrases. And its capability to do it? You give it the shell, and also you give it your folders.

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We Are Not All Naturals, or Absolute vs Comparative Benefit

My former colleague, Rebecca Thornton, is a genius at many issues. She is difficult to maintain up with in principally any of them, not to mention be higher than her at any one in every of them. She is the basic instance of somebody who has absolutely the benefit in nearly each single a part of the duties of being a contemporary professor at a analysis college — nice instructor, nice researcher, and all of the duties concerned in every therein. And I’ve listened to her describe the method and imaginative and prescient of her courses earlier than — how a lot time she spends fascinated with the underlying structure of a course, what the coaching builds on prime of itself, methods of eliciting scholar engagement, how each factor reinforces each different factor resulting in human capital accumulation for the scholars and even herself over a 13 week interval — the period of time a semester lasts. It was past spectacular to look at, and that isn’t even referring to her analysis acumen. She merely is aware of methods to design a curriculum.

I’m not Rebecca Thornton a am I shut. She has absolutely the benefit in, greatest I can inform, each single job that accumulates linearly and nonlinearly within the creation of college class. And that completely consists of her slides. That are themselves based mostly on a rhetoric of her personal that she simply is aware of and is aware of nicely.

I frankly want Claude Code to simply shorten the hole between me and the professors. I probably can’t surpass them, however I can prolong my very own manufacturing chance frontier such that the expertise for college students in all probability goes up dramatically. My talent as a professor is stymied by my very own wrestle with inattention, obsession with the flawed issues, and misallocation of time and a focus throughout the myriad duties concerned in producing a curriculum and sophistication which incorporates however just isn’t restricted to the creation of decks.

I doubtless won’t ever have absolutely the benefit when put in a contest with the world’s greatest rhetorician, however I’m not attempting to both. I’m attempting to be my greatest self and Claude Code’s assist in writing decks is simply one of many methods I’m attempting to do this.

Optimum Manufacturing of Decks

I awakened early this morning considering of the issues I did within the video above final evening, and particularly how I used to be attempting to articulate this concept that there’s an optimum deck, and that it’s the place the marginal advantage of the time spent making the deck (which is probably going high quality diminishing in time and effort use) equals the marginal value. It is a deck I’m engaged on which I’m going to share now. Right here is the pdf (unfinished in the mean time), right here is the .tex and right here is the .sty file which is identical because the one which Claude Code invented on the fly for me within the video above once I requested him to modify as a result of I didn’t just like the aesthetics of what we had been utilizing at that second.

However, my rivalry has been that each curves shift with Claude Code particularly. Not LLMs typically — an AI Agent on par with Claude Code, particularly. One which lives within the listing. The impact that Claude Code has on the marginal profit curve is that for each unit of time spent making decks, the standard of these decks rise and therefore why the marginal profit curve shifts up. My instance is issues like creating aesthetically pleasing themes (which you’ll see me do within the video), accessing skilled stage talent at producing prime quality graphics with TikZ (a strong but totally bewildering LaTeX package deal for most individuals who worth their time at principally any non-zero worth), and the power to check out experimental concepts.

However the marginal value of manufacturing decks additionally doubtless declines. Right here I characterize that shift with a big decline, but additionally a flattening out, of the marginal value curve. It’s pointless to state simply what the brand new form is, however my private hunch is that it’s like this. The purpose the place we begin to actually hit the pressure on the underlying value perform with AI might be a lot farther to the suitable of even the hours in a day and as such my hunch is that the brand new marginal value curve is flatter which implies that at increased ranges of time spent working, the financial savings hole between the outdated marginal value and the marginal value grows and should even develop considerably at excessive ranges of use.

In order that’s an fascinating thought when you think about it. And this wraps it right into a easy provide and demand framework that I personally assume is so apparent to anybody utilizing Claude Code to make decks that it’s not solely noncontroversial to assert it, it’s borderline apparent. It’s clearly true to anybody who’s utilizing Claude Code to make their lecture decks that the time-adjusted high quality of your lecture slides goes up.

Being a Professor is a Assortment of Folders and Recordsdata

Claude Code for my part is for anybody whose job entails being in a listing of folders with recordsdata. That’s who that is for. It’s not only for writing R and Stata code. It could not even be primarily for that. It’s laborious to clarify, however it’s such as you’re in a position to manifest your goals by means of sheer needs. That’s in all probability a extra correct description of what I’ve been in a position to be taught to do with Claude Code than if I used to be to even attempt to say extra.

So, try the video. It’s lengthy, you may skip round. Share it. It’ll be free and never gated for an additional 2-3 days I feel. Every thing finally goes behind the paywall, so I encourage you to look at it instantly when you’re not a paying subscriber. However I feel seeing me make a deck for my precise class is value it and that alone in all probability will trigger a few of you to develop into instantly a subscriber. And bear in mind, I’m paying the $200-250/month or no matter it’s however that’s as a result of I’m an influence consumer. I’m utilizing this so intensively on a regular basis, as I’ve so many dormant initiatives on the verge of being orphaned that I’m lastly getting again up and operating. After all, provide creates its personal demand so I’m additionally doing new issues. However that’s okay. I have to and this has helped me to.

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Principled Coarse-Grained Acceptance for Speculative Decoding in Speech

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Principled Coarse-Grained Acceptance for Speculative Decoding in Speech


Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive speech era by letting a quick draft mannequin suggest tokens {that a} bigger goal mannequin verifies. Nonetheless, for speech LLMs that generate acoustic tokens, actual token matching is overly restrictive: many discrete tokens are acoustically or semantically interchangeable, decreasing acceptance charges and limiting speedups. We introduce Principled Coarse-Graining (PCG), which verifies proposals on the degree of Acoustic Similarity Teams (ASGs) derived from the goal mannequin’s embedding area. By splitting every token’s likelihood mass throughout the overlapping teams that comprise it, we outline an overlap-aware coarse-grained distribution and carry out rejection sampling on the ensuing group variable. This yields an exactness assure on the group degree whereas permitting the accepted draft token to face in for any member of the group in apply. On LibriTTS, PCG will increase acceptance and throughput relative to plain speculative decoding and prior speech-specific relaxations whereas sustaining intelligibility and speaker similarity. These outcomes counsel acoustically conscious, group-level acceptance as a easy and normal strategy to speed up speech token era whereas sustaining speech high quality.

Apiiro’s Guardian Agent guards towards insecure AI code

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Apiiro’s Guardian Agent guards towards insecure AI code

Apiiro has launched Guardian Agent, an AI agent that helps stop coding brokers from producing susceptible or non-compliant code by rewriting developer prompts into safe prompts, in keeping with the corporate.

Launched January 28, Guardian Agent is now in a non-public preview stage. Describing the expertise as introducing a basically new paradigm for securing software program within the period of AI-driven improvement, Apiiro stated Guardian replaces conventional appsec approaches constructed round detecting and fixing vulnerabilities after code is written. Guardian Agent replaces this reactive mannequin with a preventive one, stopping threat earlier than code is generated by guarding AI coding brokers in actual time, in keeping with Apiiro. Guardian Agent operates in actual time straight from the developer’s IDE and CLI instruments. The agent is powered by Apiiro’s code evaluation expertise and a software program graph that “deeply understands” the shopper’s software program structure and adapts to its adjustments, the corporate stated.

Elaborating on the inspiration behind Guardian Agent, Apiiro stated AI coding brokers are breaking the physics of software safety. Enterprises generate 4 instances extra code after adopting AI coding brokers and increase the appliance assault floor by six instances. This enlargement is pushed by speedy technology of latest APIs, duplicated open supply applied sciences and dependencies, and different assets, reshaping the software program structure with every code change, Apiiro stated. A lot of the code is generated with out builders being totally conscious of it. By stopping vulnerabilities earlier than code exists, safety outcomes are improved and developer productiveness is elevated, Apiiro careworn.

DHS is utilizing Google and Adobe AI to make movies

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DHS is utilizing Google and Adobe AI to make movies


In a bit about “enhancing pictures, movies or different public affairs supplies utilizing AI,” it reveals for the primary time that DHS is utilizing Google’s Veo 3 video generator and Adobe Firefly, estimating that the company has between 100 and 1,000 licenses for the instruments. It additionally discloses that DHS makes use of Microsoft Copilot Chat for producing first drafts of paperwork and summarizing lengthy stories and Poolside software program for coding duties, along with instruments from different corporations.

Google, Adobe, and DHS didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

The information gives particulars about how companies like Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which is a part of DHS, is perhaps creating the big quantities of content material they’ve shared on X and different channels as immigration operations have expanded throughout US cities. They’ve posted content material celebrating “Christmas after mass deportations,” referenced Bible verses and Christ’s beginning, confirmed faces of these the company has arrested, and shared advertisements geared toward recruiting brokers. The companies have additionally repeatedly used music with out permissions from artists of their movies.

A number of the content material, significantly movies, has the look of being AI-generated, nevertheless it hasn’t been clear till now what AI fashions the companies is perhaps utilizing. This marks the primary concrete proof such mills are being utilized by DHS to create content material shared with the general public.

It nonetheless stays unattainable to confirm which firm helped create a particular piece of content material, or certainly if it was AI-generated in any respect. Adobe affords choices to “watermark” a video made with its instruments to reveal that it’s AI-generated, for instance, however this disclosure doesn’t at all times keep intact when the content material is uploaded and shared throughout totally different websites. 

The doc reveals that DHS has particularly been utilizing Move, a device from Google that mixes its Veo 3 video generator with a collection of filmmaking instruments. Customers can generate clips and assemble total movies with AI, together with movies that comprise sound, dialogue, and background noise, making them hyperrealistic. Adobe launched its Firefly generator in 2023, promising that it doesn’t use copyrighted content material in its coaching or output. Like Google’s instruments, Adobe’s can generate movies, pictures, soundtracks, and speech. The doc doesn’t reveal additional particulars about how the company is utilizing these video technology instruments.

Employees at giant tech corporations, together with greater than 140 present and former staff from Google and greater than 30 from Adobe, have been placing strain on their employers in current weeks to take a stance towards ICE and the taking pictures of Alex Pretti on January 24. Google’s management has not made statements in response. In October, Google and Apple eliminated apps on their app shops that have been supposed to trace sightings of ICE, citing security dangers. 

An extra doc launched on Wednesday revealed new particulars about how the company is utilizing extra area of interest AI merchandise, together with a facial recognition app utilized by ICE, as first reported by 404Media in June.

Why is Trump on the verge of bombing Iran once more?

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Why is Trump on the verge of bombing Iran once more?


It seems more and more doubtless that within the coming days, america will as soon as once more launch airstrikes in opposition to Iran.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump posted on his Reality Social platform {that a} “large Armada is heading to Iran,” referring to the plane provider USS Abraham Lincoln and a number of other different naval ships which have just lately taken positions within the area, together with fast build-ups in plane and air protection methods. Ought to he order an assault, Trump warned the injury could be “far worse” than “Operation Midnight Hammer,” the bombing operation concentrating on Iran’s nuclear websites carried out by the US final June.

It’s a surprisingly fast pivot from simply weeks earlier, when Trump appeared to again down from his “locked and loaded” risk to intervene over the state’s brutal crackdown on protesters. Regardless of experiences of horrific casualties, the president indicated that he was happy that the killing of protesters had stopped and that Iran had halted lots of of deliberate executions. It’s too late for an intervention to rescue the protesters — the motion has been successfully crushed for now, with estimates of the quantity killed starting from 3,000 to six,000, or doubtlessly a lot larger.

However the acknowledged motives for the brand new navy standoff are totally different this time. Trump is publicly calling for Iran to barter a deal for “no nuclear weapons,” escalating a longstanding demand at a time when the regime seems particularly weak. The New York Instances has reported that US officers have given the Iranians three calls for: a everlasting finish to all uranium enrichment and the destruction of its present stockpiles, limits on its ballistic missile program, and an finish to help for proxy teams like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.

This isn’t in contrast to the build-up in Venezuela earlier than the raid that captured Nicolás Maduro, throughout which the administration appeared to alternate between major motivations — “narcoterrorism,” recovering US oil property — earlier than taking motion.

“This appears to be a navy intervention seeking an goal,” mentioned Ali Vaez, Iran director on the Worldwide Disaster Group.

To the extent the protesters match into the equation now, it could be an extra supply of tactical benefit. In response to Reuters, Trump can be weighing targets for strikes that would assist foment regime change by giving Iran’s protesters “the arrogance that they might overrun authorities and safety buildings,” betting {that a} present of pressure may renew the now-suppressed opposition.

Trump was reportedly urged earlier this month to chorus from assaults by US allies within the Gulf and Israel, however the Venezuela expertise could have satisfied the president that there are few limits to his potential to make use of navy pressure abroad.

Together with his newest Iran escalation, nevertheless, he could also be pushing his luck. The administration seems to be confronted with an Iranian regime unlikely to comply with its calls for, however with few navy choices that don’t contain danger of serious regional blowback or a destabilizing collapse.

What is definitely occurring with Iran’s nukes?

The battle over Iran’s nuclear program isn’t resolved, however there’s no signal they’ve moved considerably nearer to buying nuclear weapons for the reason that final US bombing marketing campaign.

Trump confidently asserted that the 12-day conflict in June had left Iran’s nuclear program “obliterated.” That declare was virtually actually exaggerated: Even the administration’s just lately launched Nationwide Safety Technique described it extra cautiously as “considerably degraded. And whereas assessments differ as to the extent of the injury and the time it could take to rebuild, the final consensus on Iran’s nuclear program is that the US/Israel operation final June, which focused key nuclear services together with necessary scientists and officers, significantly set again Iran’s nuclear program however didn’t eradicate it solely.

Inspectors from the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company, the UN nuclear watchdog, say they’ve been denied entry to the three nuclear services that have been bombed in June: Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. Most critically, the IAEA says it can’t account for the situation and situation of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium. Estimates counsel Iran could have 440.9 kg of uranium enriched to 60 % purity, only a quick technical step from the 90 % purity wanted to construct a weapon. In idea, this might be sufficient for round 10 nuclear bombs, although Iran isn’t believed to at present be constructing these bombs, and given the extent of the Israeli intelligence penetration of Iran’s energy construction revealed within the lead-up to the conflict, it could doubtless be very cautious about doing so.

If an Iranian nuke continues to be a theoretical risk, its ballistic missile drawback is a present and rising one to the US allies within the area who would bear the brunt of Iran’s retaliation.

If Iran seems to have made little progress on reconstituting its nuclear program, the identical can’t be mentioned for its missiles. Nicole Grajewski, an knowledgeable on Iranian missile warfare on the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace, wrote just lately that the regime has launched into “what can solely be described as a concerted marketing campaign to reconstitute and dramatically broaden its ballistic missile capabilities” for the reason that US and Israeli strikes in June.

This has included energetic reconstruction and reinforcement efforts at missile websites broken through the conflict —confirmed by satellite tv for pc imagery — and new manufacturing websites coming on-line. In December, a US particular operations crew intercepted a ship carrying Chinese language missile elements to Iran, and there was hypothesis that month that Israel was contemplating a brand new strike on Iran’s missile capabilities.

As for the “axis of resistance,” Iran’s community of armed proxy teams all through the Center East that Trump can be demanding be lower free, it was badly degraded by Israeli assaults following the October 7 assaults, significantly Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia/political motion that was as soon as essentially the most distinguished member of the community.

But it surely’s not eradicated solely both. The Houthis, the Yemeni group that emerged as essentially the most surprisingly harmful Iran-aligned group through the post-October 7 conflict, has warned that it’ll resume its assaults on transport by the Purple Sea within the occasion of latest strikes in Iran, and the Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militant Kataib Hezbollah has vowed to launch “whole conflict.”

How harmful may an Iranian counterattack be?

In June, Iranian retaliation in opposition to america was restricted and seemingly performative: it launched missiles in opposition to Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, however solely after giving the Qataris superior discover, permitting them to intercept the entire missiles.

Throughout that battle, Iran’s leaders gave the impression to be on the lookout for a method to keep credibility with out escalating the conflict additional. This time round, the dynamics are more likely to be totally different. Amid its latest navy setbacks, financial turmoil, and mass protests, the regime seems extra susceptible than it has been in a long time.

“They might be studying this as an existential struggle,” Grajewski advised Vox. “They might be extra escalatory and never as rational as they have been through the 12-day conflict.”

Iranian officers have reportedly reached out to counterparts in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, warning that US bases in these international locations might be targets and these governments have very publicly acknowledged they won’t participate in any strikes.

After the operations in Iran in June and in Venezuela this month, Trump is clearly gaining confidence in his use of navy pressure. Each operations delivered fast outcomes with minimal US casualties and with out resulting in the quagmires that critics warned of.

However Trump can be confronting the fact that even a navy as highly effective as America’s has limits on its potential to conduct advanced navy operations on a number of penalties in fast succession.

Solely a few third of the 11 US plane carriers are at sea at any given time. When the USS Gerald Ford was moved from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean within the Venezuela build-up, it left the Center East with out a close by provider strike group, which can have partly restricted US choices to strike Iran through the protests in early January.

Mark Cancian, a senior adviser on the Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research, notes that the aim of those strike teams is as a lot defensive as it’s offensive. The US doesn’t want an “armada” of floor ships to assault Iran: Operation Midnight Hammer was carried out by submarines launching ballistic missiles and B-2 bombers that took off from Missouri. However the two provider strike teams on the time performed a key position in intercepting the lots of of missiles and drones Iran launched at Israel in retaliation.

The operation took a toll. The US used round 1 / 4 of its whole inventory of Terminal Excessive-Altitude Air Protection (THAAD) interceptors — at the least 100 missiles, solely 11 or 12 of that are produced annually. And whereas Israel had outstanding success at intercepting Iranian missiles through the conflict, it was working dangerously low on its defensive Arrow interceptors by the tip of the battle.

Officers say the US has been working to replenish the availability of interceptors within the area, although provides should not limitless, significantly given the continued demand for methods to guard Ukrainian cities from Russian bombardment. A latest CSIS evaluation described air defenses and interceptors because the “desk stakes for contemporary battle”. A brand new battle with Iran could take a look at simply how a lot the US is ready to convey to the desk.

Disaster Group’s Vaez mentioned the Iranian authorities is unlikely to comply with something near the maximalist calls for from the US aspect described in media experiences.

“That is now a regime that’s hanging on by a thread, and that thread is its core constituents,” he mentioned, referring to hardline nationalist supporters of the regime. “The one factor that the Iranians discover extra harmful than affected by US sanctions or one other US strike on their territory is surrendering to US phrases,” he added.

On the similar time, that is an administration that prefers fast, decisive, and overwhelming victories and has proven no urge for food for true regime change. Even Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a dyed-in-the-wool Iran hawk, advised senators yesterday that his hope was that if Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been to fall, he could be succeeded by “someone inside their system.”

This additionally seems to be borrowing from the Venezuela playbook, the place the nation’s regime was left in place with out its problematic president, although most analysts don’t consider the US has the potential to hold out the identical type of snatch-and-grab operation in Iran that it executed in Venezuela.

In his worldwide conflicts to this point, together with the confrontation over Greenland that got here to a head final week, Trump has demonstrated a outstanding potential to search out an off-ramp that permits him to declare victory, even when he achieves far lower than his preliminary calls for. By both negotiations or navy motion, he could discover his method to an consequence like that with Iran, although in the meanwhile it’s not clear what it could be. That leaves us in a well-known place for now: pressured to take Trump’s ultimatums each significantly and actually.

Polar bears are getting fatter within the fastest-warming place on Earth

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Polar bears are getting fatter within the fastest-warming place on Earth


Researchers tracked the physique situation of polar bears in Svalbard

Jon Aars, Norsk Polarinstitutt

Polar bears have been getting fatter whilst sea ice disappears in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the fastest-warming place on Earth – however scientists don’t anticipate the great occasions to final.

The northern Barents Sea, which stretches between Svalbard and Russia’s Novaya Zemlya within the Arctic Ocean, has been heating up seven occasions quicker than the globe as an entire. The ocean ice round Svalbard lasts two months much less in winter and spring than it did 20 years in the past. Bears now need to swim 200 to 300 kilometres between looking grounds on the ice and snow dens on the islands the place they provide delivery.

However the common measurement and weight of the Svalbard bears have elevated since 2000, a discovering that shocked Jon Aars on the Norwegian Polar Institute, who led the research.

“We must always take into consideration this as excellent news for Svalbard,” he says. “However if you’d like unhealthy information, you may simply go and look someplace else the place you’ve gotten very, very agency proof that local weather change is impacting polar bears negatively.”

This wide-ranging, solitary predator is cut up into 20 populations throughout the far north, the place this can be very troublesome to depend. Whereas its numbers are declining in components of Alaska, Canada and Greenland, they look like secure or growing somewhere else. For 9 of the populations, knowledge is just too sparse to say.

The Barents Sea inhabitants, which was estimated at 1900 to 3600 bears 20 years in the past, is regarded as secure or maybe even rising. Beginning in 1995, Aars and his colleagues tranquilised 770 bears with dart weapons from helicopters. They hopped out onto the snow or ice to measure their size and, to estimate weight, their girth on the chest.

Pattern evaluation confirmed this physique situation decreased till 2000, then elevated till the top of observations in 2019.

Polar bears rely on sea ice for a lot of facets of their lives

Trine Lise Sviggum Helgerud, Norsk Polarinstitutt

Within the spring, when ringed seals give delivery to pups on the ocean ice, polar bears hunt them to construct up shops of fats for the ice-free months. Aars and his colleagues imagine the shrinking ice space could also be making these seals simpler to search out.

The bears are additionally exploiting new meals sources. The roughly 250 people that stay on the islands when the ice recedes could also be looking extra bearded seals alongside the coast, in addition to harbour seals, that are spreading to Svalbard because the local weather warms.

These “native bears” are more and more ransacking duck and geese colonies for eggs, they usually have been seen chasing down reindeer from a rising cervid inhabitants. The carcasses of walruses, one other species that’s growing there, can present weeks of feasting.

Svalbard bears are higher in a position to adapt than scientists anticipated, “so extinction is delayed”, says Jouke Prop on the College of Groningen within the Netherlands.

“It’s a species in despair. They’re doing loopy issues,” he says. “It doesn’t work all over the place, however it might work for a while” on Svalbard.

Polar bears should not have reached the archipelago’s carrying capability after Arctic nations banned looking them for hides and zoo specimens in 1973. However warming is starting to disrupt the meals chain, which begins with algae on the underside of sea ice, warns Prop.

“It is going to be very troublesome to help an inexpensive inhabitants of polar bears if sea ice disappears,” he says.

“There might be a threshold, and… polar bears in Svalbard might be negatively affected by continued sea ice loss,” Aars says.

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High 25+ Social Media Challenge concepts for College students

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High 25+ Social Media Challenge concepts for College students


Social media is not only for leisure. It has turn out to be an vital studying house the place college students can perceive communication, creativity, digital habits and know-how. Social media initiatives assist college students learn the way on-line platforms work, how content material spreads, and the way folks work together digitally. This weblog shares 25+ social media challenge concepts for college kids which are easy, sensible, and simple to grasp. Every challenge is designed to construct actual expertise like content material planning, evaluation, creativity, and accountable digital utilization. These initiatives are appropriate for varsity assignments, faculty initiatives, and inside assessments.

Additionally Learn: Social Media Analytics Developments: Key Insights & Future Prospects

Why Social Media Tasks Are Helpful for College students

  • Assist college students perceive digital communication.
  • Enhance creativity and content material planning expertise.
  • Train accountable on-line habits.
  • Construct presentation and analytical expertise.
  • Put together college students for contemporary careers.
  • Make studying interactive and sensible.

High 25+ Social Media Challenge concepts for College students

1. Social Media Consciousness Marketing campaign Challenge

Goal:
To unfold consciousness about an vital social difficulty utilizing social media.

Instruments Used:
Canva, Google Docs and primary analytics instruments

Anticipated Final result:
College students be taught content material planning, accountable posting and viewers engagement.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb or X

2. Academic Instagram Web page Challenge

Goal:
To share academic content material in a easy and fascinating method.

Instruments Used:
Canva, Notion and smartphone digital camera

Anticipated Final result:
Improved clarification expertise and visible content material creation.

Platform Examples:
Instagram

3. Pretend Information Identification Challenge

Goal:
To take a look at how false info spreads on social media.

Instruments Used:
Browser analysis instruments, spreadsheets

Anticipated Final result:
College students discover ways to suppose critically and use the media.

Platform Examples:
Fb, X

4. Social Media Content material Calendar Challenge

Goal:
To plan content material upfront for constant posting.

Instruments Used:
Google Sheets, Trello

Anticipated Final result:
Understanding of scheduling, planning, and group.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, LinkedIn

5. On-line Polling and Survey Challenge

Goal:
To gather opinions utilizing social media polls.

Instruments Used:
Google Varieties, in-built ballot options

Anticipated Final result:
Knowledge assortment and primary evaluation expertise.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, X

6. Digital Storytelling Challenge

Goal:
To inform a narrative utilizing posts, captions and visuals.

Instruments Used:
Canva, smartphone

Anticipated Final result:
Higher storytelling and viewers connection.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb

7. Psychological Well being Consciousness Web page

Goal:
To advertise constructive psychological well being messages.

Instruments Used:
Design instruments and analysis articles

Anticipated Final result:
Empathy growth and accountable communication.

Platform Examples:
Instagram

8. Social Media Advertising Fundamentals Challenge

Goal:
To grasp how manufacturers promote merchandise on-line.

Instruments Used:
Canva, analytics dashboards

Anticipated Final result:
Introduction to digital advertising and marketing ideas.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb

9. Influencer Research Challenge

Goal:
To research how influencers construct belief and engagement.

Instruments Used:
Statement sheets, analytics instruments

Anticipated Final result:
Understanding of branding and viewers psychology.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, YouTube

10. Group Engagement Challenge

Goal:
To attach folks round a shared curiosity or trigger.

Instruments Used:
Posting instruments, remark monitoring

Anticipated Final result:
Improved interplay and moderation expertise.

Platform Examples:
Fb Teams

11. Social Media Ethics Challenge

Goal:
To check moral habits and on-line accountability.

Instruments Used:
Analysis sources, displays

Anticipated Final result:
Higher understanding of digital citizenship.

Platform Examples:
All main platforms

12. Picture Caption Writing Challenge

Goal:
To put in writing efficient captions for social media posts.

Instruments Used:
Picture editors, writing instruments

Anticipated Final result:
Improved writing and creativity.

Platform Examples:
Instagram

13. Quick Video Content material Technique Challenge

Goal:
To grasp how quick movies entice customers.

Instruments Used:
Cell digital camera, modifying apps

Anticipated Final result:
Video planning and modifying expertise.

Platform Examples:
Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts

14. Social Media Analytics Challenge

Goal:
To trace likes, shares and engagement.

Instruments Used:
Constructed-in analytics, spreadsheets

Anticipated Final result:
Primary information interpretation expertise.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb

15. On-line Security Consciousness Challenge

Goal:
To coach customers about on-line security.

Instruments Used:
Design instruments, analysis

Anticipated Final result:
Understanding privateness and safety points.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb

16. Social Media Marketing campaign Comparability Challenge

Goal:
To match two completely different campaigns.

Instruments Used:
Case research, evaluation charts

Anticipated Final result:
Analytical and comparability expertise.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, X

17. Scholar Membership Promotion Challenge

Goal:
To advertise a pupil group or exercise.

Instruments Used:
Canva, scheduling instruments

Anticipated Final result:
Occasion promotion and teamwork expertise.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb

18. Visible Branding Challenge

Goal:
To keep up constant colours and types.

Instruments Used:
Model kits, design instruments

Anticipated Final result:
Primary branding data.

Platform Examples:
Instagram

19. Remark Moderation Research

Goal:
To grasp how feedback have an effect on engagement.

Instruments Used:
Handbook monitoring, reviews

Anticipated Final result:
Battle dealing with and communication expertise.

Platform Examples:
Fb, Instagram

20. Hashtag Analysis Challenge

Goal:
To check how hashtags enhance attain.

Instruments Used:
Hashtag instruments, analytics

Anticipated Final result:
Search engine marketing-like understanding for social media.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, X

21. Social Media for Small Tasks Promotion

Goal:
To advertise a small concept or initiative.

Instruments Used:
Design instruments, posting schedules

Anticipated Final result:
Sensible promotion expertise.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb

22. Social Media Pattern Evaluation Challenge

Goal:
To check trending subjects and challenges.

Instruments Used:
Pattern monitoring instruments

Anticipated Final result:
Understanding person habits.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, X

23. Content material Efficiency Comparability Challenge

Goal:
To match photos vs movies vs textual content posts.

Instruments Used:
Analytics, charts

Anticipated Final result:
Content material technique data.

Platform Examples:
Instagram, Fb

24. Social Media Language Research Challenge

Goal:
To check how language impacts engagement.

Instruments Used:
Publish samples, evaluation sheets

Anticipated Final result:
Communication and tone understanding.

Platform Examples:
All platforms

25. Person Engagement Enchancment Challenge

Goal:
To check methods to extend likes and feedback.

Instruments Used:
Analytics, experiments

Anticipated Final result:
Downside fixing and technique constructing.

Platform Examples:
Instagram

26. Social Media Time Administration Research (Bonus)

Goal:
To research every day utilization patterns.

Instruments Used:
Display screen-time reviews

Anticipated Final result:
Wholesome digital behavior consciousness.

Platform Examples:
All platforms

Find out how to Select the Proper Social Media Challenge

  • Choose a subject that pursuits you.
  • Select initiatives that contain studying, not copying.
  • Preserve goals easy and clear.
  • Give attention to clarification and understanding.
  • Use actual observations

How These Tasks Assist in Exams and Assignments

Social media initiatives assist college students perceive real-world digital habits as a substitute of studying concept solely. When college students work on initiatives, they achieve confidence in explaining ideas throughout displays and assessments. Academics usually worth originality, statement and readability, which these initiatives assist strongly. Sensible work additionally helps college students bear in mind ideas longer and reduces examination stress.

Conclusion

Social media initiatives provide college students a sensible approach to perceive how digital platforms work and the way folks talk on-line. These 25+ social media challenge concepts give attention to creativity, accountability and evaluation. By engaged on such initiatives, college students enhance communication expertise, digital consciousness, and important pondering. As an alternative of utilizing social media casually, college students be taught to watch, analyze and apply data meaningfully. With the appropriate challenge selection and energy, social media initiatives can turn out to be highly effective studying instruments that assist educational success and future alternatives.

Incessantly Requested Questions (FAQs)

  1. 1. What are social media initiatives for college kids?

    Social media initiatives assist college students perceive how platforms are used for communication, advertising and marketing, consciousness, and content material creation. These initiatives give attention to planning, creativity, evaluation and accountable utilization moderately than simply posting content material.

  2. 2. Are these social media challenge concepts appropriate for inexperienced persons?

    Sure, all challenge concepts are beginner-friendly. They’re designed in a easy method so college students can perceive ideas simply, even when they’ve primary data of social media platforms.

  3. 3. Which expertise can college students be taught from social media initiatives?

    College students can enhance expertise comparable to content material planning, creativity, communication, information evaluation, teamwork, and digital accountability. These expertise are helpful for teachers in addition to future careers.

  4. 4. Can these initiatives be used for varsity or faculty assignments?

    Completely. These initiatives are appropriate for varsity assignments, faculty initiatives, displays, and sensible assessments. Academics normally choose initiatives that present understanding and real-world utility.

  5. 5. Do college students want superior instruments to finish these initiatives?

    No superior instruments are required. Most initiatives could be accomplished utilizing primary instruments like a smartphone, free design instruments, spreadsheets, and built-in analytics out there on social media platforms.

Unified Cisco Catalyst Middle Monitoring with CCGM APIs

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Unified Cisco Catalyst Middle Monitoring with CCGM APIs


Are you attending Cisco Stay Amsterdam and seeking to elevate your community monitoring expertise? Don’t miss the prospect to affix the DevNet Labs Studio session titled “Unified Cisco Catalyst Middle Monitoring: Constructing a Actual-Time Multi-Cluster Well being Report with CCGM APIs [DEVLAB-1100].” This hands-on workshop is designed to empower community engineers and builders alike with instruments to simplify and unify the administration of a number of Catalyst Facilities.

Simplify Multi-Cluster Administration with Cisco Catalyst Middle World Supervisor

Managing a number of Catalyst Facilities can typically really feel like juggling a number of advanced programs directly, every producing its personal telemetry knowledge and well being metrics. Cisco Catalyst Middle World Supervisor (CCGM) transforms this problem by providing a centralized, unified interface that aggregates knowledge throughout clusters. With CCGM, you achieve streamlined visibility and management, enabling you to observe community well being holistically somewhat than in remoted silos.

Construct a Actual-Time Cisco Catalyst Middle Monitoring Dashboard Utilizing CCGM APIs

What units this DevNet Labs Studio session aside is its sensible, hands-on method. Members will dive into the highly effective CCGM APIs to extract important telemetry knowledge from a number of controllers. Utilizing Python and HTML, you’ll construct a visually partaking, real-time multi-cluster well being report. This interactive dashboard will combination key efficiency metrics and current them in a way that’s each intuitive and actionable.

Not solely are you able to generate this report immediately, however additionally it is absolutely downloadable, making it simple to share insights together with your group or key stakeholders. This functionality is important for streamlining community operations and accelerating troubleshooting throughout distributed environments.

Why Attend This Cisco Stay DevNet Labs Session?

  • Study from the Consultants: Acquire direct entry to Cisco DevNet engineers and specialists who will information you thru the method.
  • Improve Your Expertise: Construct sensible expertise in API integration, Python programming, and real-time knowledge visualization tailor-made for community environments.
  • Enhance Operational Effectivity: Get palms on an actual CCGM dashboard and be taught the way it unifies monitoring, reduces complexity and improves decision-making.

Session Particulars

Ensure to order your spot in one of many following periods:

  • Monday, Feb 9 | 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM CET
  • Tuesday, Feb 10 | 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM CET
  • Wednesday, Feb 11 | 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM CET
  • Thursday, Feb 12 | 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM CET

You possibly can add this session on to your Cisco Stay schedule right here: Add DEVLAB-1100 to Your Schedule

Conclusion

Unified Cisco Catalyst Middle Monitoring Made Easy

For community professionals wanting to harness the total potential of Cisco Catalyst Facilities, this DevNet Labs Studio session is a must-attend. It presents an unparalleled alternative to grasp centralized community monitoring utilizing Cisco Catalyst Middle World Supervisor’s APIs and to create real-time, actionable well being experiences that may remodel the way you handle multi-cluster environments.

Don’t miss this opportunity to boost your community monitoring capabilities and join with fellow Cisco Stay attendees enthusiastic about innovation and operational excellence. See you at Cisco Stay Amsterdam!

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