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Extra.ie
2 hours ago
- Extra.ie
Pleas not to share video after vicious racist attack on Indian man
Gardaí have pleaded with the public not to share a video of a racist attack in which an Indian man was stripped and beaten. And Tánaiste Simon Harris has vowed to deal with the 'escalating situation' amid calls for a tougher stance against racist assaults. The incident is understood to have occurred on the Ring Road in Kilnamanagh close to the roundabout at Parkhill Lawns in Tallaght, Dublin, at around 6pm on Saturday. Gardaí have pleaded with the public not to share a video of a racist attack in which an Indian man was stripped and beaten. Pic: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Videos of the attack show the bloodied man cowering while his attackers launch a vicious assault on him. The man had earlier been filmed being told to leave the area. However, a short time later, a group of teenagers arrived at the scene and began to viciously assault him, filming the attack on their phones. Gardaí were called and the man was brought to hospital for his injuries. An investigation has now been launched. The attack is believed to have been started by false claims that the man had acted inappropriately with children. The Indian community in Tallaght and beyond has rallied to the man's side, with politicians now calling for the introduction of hate crime legislation to be fast-tracked. Tánaiste Simon Harris has vowed to deal with the 'escalating situation' amid calls for a tougher stance against racist assaults. Pic: Sam Boal/Collins Photos Supriya Singh, a Fine Gael councillor for the Donaghmede area of Dublin, said the attack wasn't random. She told the Irish Daily Mail that people of colour are now 'looking over their shoulders' and living in fear. She said: 'As an Irish national of Indian origin, my heart aches thinking about the brutality inflicted on an innocent man and the lasting trauma it will leave behind. 'A man was stripped, slashed and humiliated in public in Tallaght. It wasn't random – it was hate. He was targeted because of who he is, not what he did. Gardaí have linked at least five similar attacks this year. These are not coincidences. An investigation has been launched. Pic: KarlM Photography/Shutterstock 'There is absolutely no place for hate in our society. People who have made Ireland their home and who contribute every day to its growth and success deserve respect, not violence.' Cllr Singh added that these attacks are becoming more commonplace and that more must be done politically to bring them to an end. She added: 'There has been a noticeable increase in racially motivated attacks – not just on the Indian community, but on migrants more broadly. 'As an Irish citizen of Indian origin, and as a Dublin City councillor, and as a mother, I've heard from many people who now walk in fear, looking over their shoulder in the very streets we all call home. They are concerned about the safety of their families. What's most concerning is the pattern we're seeing – unprovoked assaults, rising misinformation and targeted intimidation. 'These are not isolated incidents anymore. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) reported a 30% rise in hate crimes in Ireland over the last two years, and many of those targeted are minorities. In Dublin alone, multiple communities have reported threats, verbal abuse and physical violence. This is becoming a serious social issue – not just for migrants, but for Irish society as a whole.' In a letter to the Tánaiste, Cllr Singh called for a statement of solidarity from the Government, specifically condemning the Tallaght incident and affirming support for affected communities and a commitment to strengthen and fast-track the hate-crime legislation. This includes addressing how misinformation and far-right ideologies are influencing some young people and communities. In response, Fine Gael leader Mr Harris said: 'I absolutely condemn it and stand in solidarity with the victim and the Indian community. It is absolutely unacceptable that the migrant community should live in fear of violent thugs hiding behind a shield of disinformation I will certainly act on your requests and I have contacted the Minister for Justice on this matter.' Seán Crowe, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South-West, said those involved in the attack are 'sowing hate, fear and division in communities that have suffered more than enough from a lack of resources from the Government'. He added: 'Anyone who thinks this sort of mindless, racist violence makes their community safer is lying and fooling no one.'
Forbes
14 hours ago
- Science
- Forbes
From the ENIAC to the Cerebras chip, looking clear-eyed at hardware innovation is frankly amazing.
Microchip and Nvidia logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure ... More illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 10, 2023. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) For anybody who did any kind of computing in the 1950s or 1960s, (or for that matter, in the 1970s or the 1980s), the advances that we've made in hardware are staggering. But if you do track them to Moore's law and really analyze how incremental doubling works, it all sort of makes sense. If you remember the story about the smartie (in some versions of the tale, the inventor of the game of chess) who asked a king to double a grain of rice 64 times, you get some sense of how this works – an exponential advance that starts out small and reasonable, and ends up in the realm of what people would have originally thought to be fantasy. It's all basic math, but it still seems like a magic trick – you're moving along: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 – and then you wind up with a number bigger than you can visualize! I also found this aside from Wikipedia, describing the original contriver of this trick, to be riotously funny: 'Versions (of the story) differ as to whether the inventor becomes a high-ranking advisor or is executed.' This idea, too, has been applied to our new AI gold rush - in fact, for students of artificial intelligence minutia, none other than Ray Kurzweil talks about the 'second half of the chessboard' phenomenon that goes right to the heart of what I'm trying to articulate – that the first numbers start out seeming very reasonable, until you get about halfway into the series, and then the real exponential change happens. In other words, there's a slow rise, and then a break point where that line spirals up into the stratosphere. If you double the grains of rice on a chessboard and come up with 18 quintillion, 446 quadrillion, 744 trillion and change, you get a powerful visual example of how this works. Well, not a visual example, exactly, because you can't fit all of those grains of rice into a single image, but a conceptual idea of how it works. The Frenetic Pace of Hardware Engineering I previously wrote about the Cerebras WSE chip that's about the size of a dinner plate, and has some 90,000 cores. Sources including IEEE Spectrum show that the WSE‑2 (Cerebras CS‑2) delivers approximately 7,500 trillion FP16 operations per second (7.5 petaFLOPS), while the WSE‑3 gets up to 125 petaFLOPS. This is a powerful thing to hold in your hand, and it demonstrates the power of parallel processing. It wasn't too many years ago that we were using single core chips, then dual core, then quad core. Well, you get the idea. Now we have things like the Huawei Cloudmatrix, where they keep some of these numbers under wraps, but you know intuitively that the hardware power is unreal. Hardware as a Habitat There was an interesting TED talk given by Caleb Sirak that I attended recently where the young innovator talked about hardware as a 'silicon prison.' He went over the history of hardware acceleration from early systems, measured in millions of operations per second, to then trillions, and even quadrillions. He pointed out that in some ways, this process was driven by gaming, but it quickly made its way past that single use case with Nvidia Cuda and other designs. Now, he suggested, it's time to change with the times. 'It's time to rethink the whole system,' Sirak said. Winning the Hardware Lottery One tool in pioneering new kinds of GPUs, Sirak added, is quantization. For example, a 4-bit multiplier is orders of magnitude more efficient than a 32 bit multiplier. He talked about innovations like the Cerebras chip (in this context,) and how you can reduce the trajectory of data transfers to drive efficiencies with AI. 'When each parameter is smaller, we can put more of them across the system per second, and this decreases bottlenecks across memory and network interconnects,' he said. He talked about xAI's Colossus, with what he called a 'road map' to a million GPUs. And then, back to efficiencies: 'You can take a flexible city street grid with a lot of different cars,' he explained,'or you can have an f1 track, and if you have an f1 track, that f1 card goes pretty damn fast.' He covers the work of various companies in designing smart swarms of hardware pieces, which he referred to as 'intelligent colonies.' 'The power that we're unlocking through these AI chips and these advancements has profound implications,' he added, 'and increasingly accessible and globally shared innovation is crucial. At the heart of this revolution lies a supply chain of remarkable complexity, from rare earth minerals combined on one continent, to chemicals on another, and chips on the third.' As another example of an interconnected world, he noted that a single chip can cross dozens of national boundaries before being ultimately put into production. That makes abundant sense to anyone who knows that Taiwan Semiconductor provides the lion's share of chip fabs worldwide. In any case, we really are in the hockey stick curve of a hardware acceleration for the ages. Stay tuned.
New York Post
2 days ago
- New York Post
Decomposing body of cancer patient found ‘buried' in comforters in NYC apartment: sources
The decomposing body of an 86-year-old cancer patient buried in bed comforters was found Monday in her Brooklyn apartment – where her daughter attacked a cop, sources said. Kim To's lifeless body was found swaddled in layers of clothing and under piles of comforters in the apartment on 63rd Street near 23rd Avenue in Bensonhurst when cops responded to the pad about 1:30 p.m., according to law enforcement sources. A scarf was also wrapped around To's neck, the sources said. 3 Kim To, 86, was found dead inside her apartment on 63rd Street near 23rd Avenue in Bensonhurst Monday afternoon, cops said. Paul Martinka To suffered from stage 4 cancer as well as Alzheimer's disease, and no criminality was immediately suspected in her death, the sources said. Investigators believe To was deceased for at least one week, but possibly as many as three, according to the sources. Police had been called after a clash over the apartment, the sources added. To's daughter, 65 – who lived with her mother and had changed the locks earlier this year – refused to allow her sisters, 61 and 57, inside the apartment when one of them spotted flies coming from the window, according to the sources. 3 To suffered from stage 4 cancer as well as Alzheimer's disease, the sources said. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Responding officers were also met with violence by the oldest sister, who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia but has not taken her medication, the sources said. She allegedly bit an officer multiple times before she was handcuffed and taken to Maimonides Medical Center for an evaluation, according to the sources. 3 To's 67-year-old daughter allegedly bit a cop responding to the scene, sources said. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock To's body was removed from the scene for an autopsy, and her official cause of death will be determined by the city medical examiner's office.
New York Post
2 days ago
- New York Post
Teen charged with attempted murder for mistakenly shooting female pal in chaos outside Stonewall during Pride
The teen gunman accused of inadvertently shooting his female pal in the head after she shot an innocent bystander near the Stonewall Inn during Pride fest has been charged with attempted murder. The 17-year-old suspect was busted around 4 p.m. Monday and also faces charges of felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the June 29 violence on Sheridan Square – just around the corner from the LGBTQ+ landmark in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, police said. The mayhem erupted around 10:15 p.m. when a 16-year-old girl who was hanging out with pals opened fire at a male target standing with another group, cops said. 4 The shooting occurred around the corner from Manhattan's historic gay landmark Stonewall Inn. William Miller 4 A teen gunman is accused of mistakenly shooting and gravely wounding a pal who had already opened fire in a crowd and hit an innocent bystander. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock It's not clear why she fired at the guy, but she missed — and one of the slugs ended up traveling about 100 feet, striking a 17-year-old girl – 'a total innocent bystander' — who was visiting from New Jersey and was with a friend at the time, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. The 16-year-old female shooter's armed 17-year-old pal then got involved – wildly opening fire a second time at the group that included the guy his lady friend was aiming at, cops said. He mistakenly hit his 16-year-female friend, the first shooter, striking her in the head and gravely wounding her, Kenny said. 4 The innocent bystander, a 17-year-old girl, was shot in the thigh. Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock The girl was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, authorities said. Her own weapon was recovered on the ground right next to her, cops said. Meanwhile, the young innocent bystander was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The innocent victim's mom, Star Lopez, 46, told The Post in the aftermath that it had been an emotionally exhausting ordeal but that she was glad her daughter is alive. 4 The bystander was visiting from New Jersey and enjoying Pride festivities with a friend, cops said. / MEGA 'I prefer this to organizing a wake and picking out caskets,' she said. The 17-year-old gunman's arraignment was pending Tuesday.
Extra.ie
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
China takes drastic measure against OnlyFans in attempt to 'clean up' social media
China has completely banned subscription based site OnlyFans in an attempt to get rid of 'immoral and degenerate Western influence.' The subscription site sees people pay a monthly fee to watch creators make content that suits them, and has become known for being mainly used by adult content creators. While the site was never technically available on the Chinese mainland, people were able to get onto it via Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and third party systems that would be able to grant access to users in the country, which is known for its strict Internet censorship. China has completely banned subscription based site OnlyFans in an attempt to get rid of 'immoral and degenerate Western influence.'Pic: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images The workaround now appears to be shut, however, as the Chinese government has included it in a series of crackdowns on sites such as Instagram and Reddit, as well as foreign movies and video games. China has strict censorship and anti-pornography laws, the latter of which is actively policed — with the country even releasing anti-pornography songs that come with music videos. However, pornographic creators have used 'fan club' sites to create such content, including Weimiquan and Zhihu. The creation site is best known for its adult content, with China banning the site outright. Pic: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Approximately 16 countries have banned or restricted OnlyFans due to various anti-pornography laws, while over a dozen states in the US have restrictions on the site — but haven't banned it outright.
