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George Miller&#x27;s action-packed prequel narrowly beat The Garfield Movie over the three-day weekend but suffered the worst overall Memorial Day debut since 1989.

Weekend Box Office Results: Furiosa Edges Out Garfield in Worst Memorial Day Weekend in Decades | Rotten Tomatoes

Sony&#x27;s &#x27;The Garfield Movie&#x27; and Warner Bros.&#x27; &#x27;Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga&#x27; enjoyed a fruitful long weekend at the U.K. and Ireland box office.

'Garfield,' 'Furiosa' Battle Atop U.K., Ireland Box Office

The Telephone Box Cafe, run by Jonathan Parsons, has been open in Tynemouth since Saturday.

Ice cream shop opens in Tynemouth telephone box - BBC News

US box office revenue is down 36% on last year’s Memorial Day weekend, as the two leading films take only around $30m each

Furiosa and Garfield fail to save US box office from worst Memorial Day since 1995 | Film industry | The Guardian

Report on severe turbulence that killed one and injured dozens finds aircraft fell 178ft in under five seconds

Passengers on Singapore Airlines flight experienced rapid g-force changes

Rajkummar Rao&#x27;s Srikanth shows steady box office growth, nearing the 50 crore mark and potentially surpassing 12th Fail&#x27;s lifetime collection with a boost from Cinema Lovers Day.

Srikanth Box Office Collection Day 19: Can Rajkummar Rao's Film Challenge 12th Fail's Record?

Manoj Bajpayee’s 100th film, &quot;Bhaiyya Ji,&quot; produced by his wife Shabana Raza Bajpayee, earned ₹6.7 crore, with a weekend collection of ₹4.95 crore and

Bhaiyya Ji Box Office: Manoj Bajpayee starrer crosses Rs 6 crore mark | Hindi Movie News - Times of India

.box is bridging Web3 and Web2 TORONTO, Ontario, January 18th, 2024/Chainwire/-- Breaking new ground in the domain name industry, My.box Inc. announces the upcoming launch of its Public Beta on January 18th, 2024 at 12:00 PM ET. This kicks off public availability of the first ever domain name system supported natively by browsers, email, and wallets. The Future Of Digital Identity .box domains offer secure and seamless identity on Web3 and Web2. The holder of ‘example.box’ is empowered with decentralized ownership and access to DNS record management, ENS integration, payments, Web3 authentication, Web3 messaging, websites, and email. Founder of .box, Josh Brandley states, “There are many great things happening at the intersection of Web3, decentralized identity, and domain names – we are the first to tie it all together with a powerful, easy to use product”. .box solves the major problem with blockchain domains .box sets a new standard in the world of blockchain-based top-level domains. While other new blockchain domain systems generate excitement, they ultimately fall short because they do not work with traditional browsers and email services. In contrast, .box is ICANN-accredited, recognized by the global Domain Name System (DNS), and supported by the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). Both DNS and ENS have established substantial network effects, solidifying their positions as core infrastructure. .box is pioneering an approach that natively integrates the features of both systems, thus delivering a better experience for users. The Team Behind .box The .box TLD is owned and operated by Intercap Registry, an ICANN Accredited Registry Operator. Intercap has dedicated over a decade to the development of .box. Core partners include 3DNS and ENS Labs, whose leaders share the vision of bringing the benefits of Web3 to the domain industry. Nick Johnson, Founder of ENS, states: “We have always had a deep respect for the DNS and are very excited to witness this unique .box implementation that supports seamless interoperability between the two systems”. Paul Gauvreau, CEO of 3DNS adds, “Bringing real world domain assets onchain improves almost every use case there is – we anticipate that this product will be widely adopted by Web3 enthusiasts and newcomers alike.” Launch Pricing During launch, .box domains will run through a premium pricing phase, ensuring fair access for everyone. Prices start at $7,680 USDC and then decay exponentially for 6 days until stopping at a fixed rate of $120 USDC. All domains will renew at $120 USDC per year. Domains are minted and managed using the dApp hosted at my.box. Payment is made with ETH or USDC. Join the .box community Secure your .box domain now at http://www.my.box Follow .box at https://x.com/boxdomains Join the .box to: Discord server Learn how to buy a .box and take control of your decentralized identity. Qualify for your referral link to earn $18 for each successful referral. Receive support, updates, and connect with the team. For More Information: Visit our website at  __ __or contact Omar Hamed, omar@intercap.com http://www.my.box Contact Community Manager Omar Hamed My.box contact@omar.box This story was distributed as a release by Chainwire under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. Learn more about the program here.

Introducing .box – The World’s First Blockchain Native DNS Routable Domain

I have heard about it before. B2C2B with a touch of scare up sales marketing on the side. I’m not really criticizing it, I was just unsure if it really works and if it’s ethical. Now I know it does work, and now I’m sure it is unethical. I got a message from Box today, it claimed that 35 of our employees are using Box and I as an employer have no control over them using the services. Let’s talk? Even if I have suspected that such could happen one day, I was really surprised that so many of our employees were signed up on Box already. Having an employee-friendly work environment and knowing that there are a few other services that we use for document storage, I couldn’t stop but wonder if there are some files that shouldn’t be on Box.com considering our strict information storage policies? So what’s the expectation here? What thoughts are driven to my head by this “marketing” email? Am I as an employer to take over private employee accounts by signing up for a corporate access? Should I check with my employees if we’re still in compliance with our information storage policies? I do believe such “marketing” works, but it doesn’t “work” very well for the employees. Imagine there would be a drug abuse rehab service that would supply free drugs to everyone who signs up and then sends an email to their friends and family ratting them out? Better show cases exist in our “techie” world. There’re Twilio and DigitalOcean, where developers start to use the services, find it helpful and like it so much, that they ask and encourage companies they work for to use it as well. But there is a problem — it requires a great and almost irreplaceable product. That brings us to the biggest dilemma — if we have a “scare up sales marketing” option — is it worth using it? should we be allowed to? How is it going to affect lives of our users? Big old-school companies receiving such email message will most likely start to investigate and try to discipline their employees, all this because the user liked your service. There should be a better way. How about we reach out to companies saying that they should sign up for a corporate account because our product is just what they need and many of their employees are using it already? All they need to do to find out why it is a must-have for their productivity, is go and ask their own employees. Yes, it’s going to affect your conversion rate but wait, the tactics of scaring your users will affect the conversion rate even more. Your user base might just stop using your service and start telling others not to because you report them to their boss and that makes your boss anything but happy. Negative motivation never helped people in the long run. Let’s think about the future, your company’s future and what’s more important — the future of your people.

Box.com terror tactics sales model. Is there an alternative?

and tend to be paired in conversations — they offer similar products: cloud storage for a low price and fluid scalability of storage. Both have billion-dollar valuations as well; $2.43 billion market cap and $10 billion private valuation, respectively. Box Dropbox The only key difference between the two companies is the target market, which slightly bends the product for each company to best tailor its customer. Examining the differences in the products also teaches an important lesson in distribution mechanisms of technology companies, which Ben Horowitz touches upon in his blog post “Distribution.” Dropbox, from the onset of its landing page, is very clearly a consumer-first company: Early on, Dropbox’s marketing strategies were very outbound, and how poorly that turned out for the company in its experimentation phase.The cost-per-acquisition was in the ballpark of $233 to $388 whereas customers’ lifetime values were flat $99s. Instead, the company moved onto referrals, and Houston claims that this increased signups by 60% permanently. Today, the de facto distribution mechanism for consumer companies is virality and referrals, and Horowitz quotes these companies today when they say that they will “distribute [the] product like Dropbox did.” Evidently, that’s how Dropbox scaled to a billion in revenue without a proper sales force. Houston talked about Box, on the other hand, targets larger organizations — the universities, enterprises, Fortune 500s (97% of which Box sells to). The landing page contrasts Dropbox’s one-step sign up: The acquisition process is a lot less scalable relative to Dropbox since Box is working with larger clients, but it’s still noteworthy that Levie trumpets a bottom-up sales strategy over top-down sales strategy. He wants to win over the lower-level managers and employees of the company with an amazing product that slowly enforces adoption throughout the company. Though this is comparatively scalable when looking at other enterprise-targeting companies, Box’s customers still require personal integration to help in the adoption process, but it differentiates itself from Dropbox with a higher level of security that enterprises love. Because of the lower level of scalability built into Box’s market, it has to invest more into a proper sales force to reach the enterprise clients. It may be due to the lower level of scalability and difference in distribution mechanism with Box’s sales process that it has only 10% of the revenue of Dropbox. Nevertheless, the two companies are clear winners in their market segments because they’ve adopted the best sales channels for their respective markets. Dropbox’s scalable referrals would not have worked for a company like Box because referrals typically won’t work in inter-organization situations. Similarly, Box’s methods of an operating sales force won’t work in a consumer-first market because competitors can sell to customers much faster without a sales force.

Box v. Dropbox: A Lesson in Distribution

Authors:
(1) Zhaoqing Wang, The University of Sydney and AI2Robotics;
(2) Xiaobo Xia, The University of Sydney;
(3) Ziye Chen, The University of Melbourne;
(4) Xiao He, AI2Robotics;
(5) Yandong Guo, AI2Robotics;
(6) Mingming Gong, The University of Melbourne and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence;
(7) Tongliang Liu, The University of Sydney. Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related works 3. Method and 3.1. Problem definition 3.2. Baseline and 3.3. Uni-OVSeg framework 4. Experiments 4.1. Implementation details 4.2. Main results 4.3. Ablation study 5. Conclusion 6. Broader impacts and References A. Framework details B. Promptable segmentation C. Visualisation B. Promptable segmentation. Evaluation details. We perform a prompt segmentation evaluation on a wide range of datasets in various domains. For the point prompt, we adopt a uniform point grid h×w as input prompts (e.g., 20 × 20). For the box prompt, we use ground-truth bounding boxes as input prompts. 1-pt IoU denotes the oracle performance of one point by evaluating the intersection-overunion (IoU) of the predicted masks that best match ground truth. 1-box IoU denotes is similar to 1-pt IoU. More evaluation results are reported in Fig. 7, Fig. 8 and Fig. 9. Dataset details. A description of each dataset is given in Tab. 5. The iShape dataset has 6 subsets, including antenna, branch, fence, hanger, log and wire. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. Authors: (1) Zhaoqing Wang, The University of Sydney and AI2Robotics; (2) Xiaobo Xia, The University of Sydney; (3) Ziye Chen, The University of Melbourne; (4) Xiao He, AI2Robotics; (5) Yandong Guo, AI2Robotics; (6) Mingming Gong, The University of Melbourne and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence; (7) Tongliang Liu, The University of Sydney. Authors: Authors: (1) Zhaoqing Wang, The University of Sydney and AI2Robotics; (2) Xiaobo Xia, The University of Sydney; (3) Ziye Chen, The University of Melbourne; (4) Xiao He, AI2Robotics; (5) Yandong Guo, AI2Robotics; (6) Mingming Gong, The University of Melbourne and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence; (7) Tongliang Liu, The University of Sydney. Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Related works 2. Related works 3. Method and 3.1. Problem definition 3. Method and 3.1. Problem definition 3.2. Baseline and 3.3. Uni-OVSeg framework 3.2. Baseline and 3.3. Uni-OVSeg framework 4. Experiments 4.1. Implementation details 4.1. Implementation details 4.2. Main results 4.2. Main results 4.3. Ablation study 4.3. Ablation study 5. Conclusion 5. Conclusion 6. Broader impacts and References 6. Broader impacts and References A. Framework details A. Framework details B. Promptable segmentation B. Promptable segmentation C. Visualisation C. Visualisation B. Promptable segmentation. Evaluation details. We perform a prompt segmentation evaluation on a wide range of datasets in various domains. For the point prompt, we adopt a uniform point grid h×w as input prompts (e.g., 20 × 20). For the box prompt, we use ground-truth bounding boxes as input prompts. 1-pt IoU denotes the oracle performance of one point by evaluating the intersection-overunion (IoU) of the predicted masks that best match ground truth. 1-box IoU denotes is similar to 1-pt IoU. More evaluation results are reported in Fig. 7, Fig. 8 and Fig. 9. Evaluation details. Dataset details. A description of each dataset is given in Tab. 5. The iShape dataset has 6 subsets, including antenna, branch, fence, hanger, log and wire. Dataset details. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. available on arxiv

Evaluating Promptable Segmentation with Uniform Point Grids and Bounding Boxes on Diverse Datasets

Ah, George Eley. a name destined to go down in history—not for any noble cause, mind you, but for his laughably misguided attempt to become the King of Lunch Box Links. Currently studying at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, George seems to have missed the memo that being a business school student doesn't give you a license to annoy the entire internet. For those not yet blessed with the knowledge of George's antics, let me paint you a picture. Imagine a virtual vandal, armed not with spray paint but with a bot army, hell-bent on spamming every blog comment section, forum, and search box within reach. His ultimate goal? To boost the search engine rankings of his lunch box website, MagicBoxPro (because, obviously, lunch boxes need a guerrilla marketing campaign). Little did he know, his reign would be short-lived, thanks to a trail of breadcrumbs he unwittingly left behind. Let me tell you how I managed to track down this would-be spam king after he tried—and failed—to bombard my website. It all started with an alert from CleanTalk, the anti-spam plugin I use on my WordPress site. The plugin had flagged an unusual spike in suspicious activity. Normally, CleanTalk does a stellar job of keeping the spammers at bay, but this time something was different. The attempted spam wasn’t just your run-of-the-mill junk—this was a concerted effort, and it had George Eley’s fingerprints all over it. It didn’t take long to find a social media profile that matched the digital fingerprints. The profile name that caught my attention was George Eley, self-proclaimed king of the lunch boxes. The image below depicts an audit of the Lunch Box Kings website's backlink profile, conducted using the SEO tool Ahrefs. The audit reveals that the site is plagued with inbound link spam, indicating a problematic backlink profile with potentially harmful or irrelevant links. But George's escapades don't stop at merely annoying the internet at large. No, he’s taken it a step further by enlisting the help of servers hosted by Leaseweb.com to do his dirty work. That’s right—George has weaponized Leaseweb’s infrastructure to host his spam bots, turning what could be a perfectly respectable server into a breeding ground for spammy, worthless links. It's like using a luxury yacht to smuggle expired canned goods—both baffling and a complete waste of potential. Now, you might be thinking, "Surely, this can't be a terrible idea. The internet is a vast place, and George is just a small, insignificant part of it." But, oh, dear reader, that is where you'd be wrong. You see, George has no respect for your digital property. He and his bot buddies waltz right in, take a metaphorical dump on your website's front lawn, and strut away, leaving behind a trail of poorly disguised spam links and a bad aftertaste. All this in hopes that his lunch boxes will miraculously appear at the top of Google search results. But here's the kicker: 98% of all blog comment sections are automatically no-follow. That means George's "brilliant" strategy is about as effective as trying to sell ice to penguins in Antarctica. The search engines aren’t impressed, and the only thing George’s efforts have achieved is widespread annoyance and a burgeoning reputation as that guy. Yes, that guy—the one who thinks spamming is a valid marketing strategy in 2024. You have to wonder what George was thinking. Did he imagine that webmasters everywhere would fall to their knees, thanking him for blessing their sites with his magical lunch box links? Did he dream of being hailed as a marketing genius, the likes of which the world has never seen? Or was he simply so blinded by the allure of SEO supremacy that he forgot the basic principles of respect, decency, and common sense? The internet is a shared space, a digital community where millions of us coexist (mostly) peacefully. But then there are the spammers—the digital equivalent of the guy who leaves his trash in your front yard because "someone will clean it up eventually." Spammers like George don't just disrespect individual websites; they disrespect the entire online ecosystem. They're like digital parasites, contributing nothing of value and instead feeding off the hard work of others. So, George, if you're reading this—and I suspect you might be, given your obsession with SEO—please, for the love of all things sacred in digital marketing, stop. Take your bots, your lunch boxes, and your Leaseweb servers, and find a more honorable way to promote your products. Maybe try creating quality content? Building genuine relationships with customers? Or, here's a wild idea: respect the internet property of others. Because, at the end of the day, the only thing worse than a spammer is a spammer who doesn't even know how ineffective his tactics are. And trust me, George, nobody wants to buy a lunch box from that guy. Ah, George Eley . a name destined to go down in history—not for any noble cause, mind you, but for his laughably misguided attempt to become the King of Lunch Box Links. Currently studying at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, George seems to have missed the memo that being a business school student doesn't give you a license to annoy the entire internet. George Eley For those not yet blessed with the knowledge of George's antics, let me paint you a picture. Imagine a virtual vandal, armed not with spray paint but with a bot army, hell-bent on spamming every blog comment section, forum, and search box within reach. His ultimate goal? To boost the search engine rankings of his lunch box website, MagicBoxPro (because, obviously, lunch boxes need a guerrilla marketing campaign). his MagicBoxPro Little did he know, his reign would be short-lived, thanks to a trail of breadcrumbs he unwittingly left behind. Let me tell you how I managed to track down this would-be spam king after he tried—and failed—to bombard my website. It all started with an alert from CleanTalk, the anti-spam plugin I use on my WordPress site. The plugin had flagged an unusual spike in suspicious activity. Normally, CleanTalk does a stellar job of keeping the spammers at bay, but this time something was different. The attempted spam wasn’t just your run-of-the-mill junk—this was a concerted effort, and it had George Eley’s fingerprints all over it. on my It didn’t take long to find a social media profile that matched the digital fingerprints. The profile name that caught my attention was George Eley, self-proclaimed king of the lunch boxes. The image below depicts an audit of the Lunch Box Kings website's backlink profile, conducted using the SEO tool Ahrefs . The audit reveals that the site is plagued with inbound link spam, indicating a problematic backlink profile with potentially harmful or irrelevant links. SEO tool Ahrefs But George's escapades don't stop at merely annoying the internet at large. No, he’s taken it a step further by enlisting the help of servers hosted by Leaseweb.com to do his dirty work. That’s right—George has weaponized Leaseweb’s infrastructure to host his spam bots, turning what could be a perfectly respectable server into a breeding ground for spammy, worthless links. It's like using a luxury yacht to smuggle expired canned goods—both baffling and a complete waste of potential. Now, you might be thinking, "Surely, this can't be a terrible idea. The internet is a vast place, and George is just a small, insignificant part of it." But, oh, dear reader, that is where you'd be wrong. You see, George has no respect for your digital property. He and his bot buddies waltz right in, take a metaphorical dump on your website's front lawn, and strut away, leaving behind a trail of poorly disguised spam links and a bad aftertaste. All this in hopes that his lunch boxes will miraculously appear at the top of Google search results. But here's the kicker: 98% of all blog comment sections are automatically no-follow. That means George's "brilliant" strategy is about as effective as trying to sell ice to penguins in Antarctica. The search engines aren’t impressed, and the only thing George’s efforts have achieved is widespread annoyance and a burgeoning reputation as that guy . Yes, that guy —the one who thinks spamming is a valid marketing strategy in 2024. that guy that guy You have to wonder what George was thinking. Did he imagine that webmasters everywhere would fall to their knees, thanking him for blessing their sites with his magical lunch box links? Did he dream of being hailed as a marketing genius, the likes of which the world has never seen? Or was he simply so blinded by the allure of SEO supremacy that he forgot the basic principles of respect, decency, and common sense? The internet is a shared space, a digital community where millions of us coexist (mostly) peacefully. But then there are the spammers—the digital equivalent of the guy who leaves his trash in your front yard because "someone will clean it up eventually." Spammers like George don't just disrespect individual websites; they disrespect the entire online ecosystem. They're like digital parasites, contributing nothing of value and instead feeding off the hard work of others. So, George, if you're reading this—and I suspect you might be, given your obsession with SEO—please, for the love of all things sacred in digital marketing, stop. Take your bots, your lunch boxes, and your Leaseweb servers, and find a more honorable way to promote your products. Maybe try creating quality content? Building genuine relationships with customers? Or, here's a wild idea: respect the internet property of others. Because, at the end of the day, the only thing worse than a spammer is a spammer who doesn't even know how ineffective his tactics are. And trust me, George, nobody wants to buy a lunch box from that guy . that guy

The Tragic Tale of the "Lunch Box Spammer": George Eley's Quest for Internet Infamy

The Talking Box: A CVSD Audio Digitizer and Playback Device

টকিং বক্স: একটি CVSD অডিও ডিজিটাইজার এবং প্লেব্যাক ডিভাইস

Die Talking Box: Ein CVSD-Audio-Digitalisierungs- und Wiedergabegerät

The Talking Box: un dispositivo de reproducción y digitalizador de audio CVSD

The Talking Box : un numériseur audio et un appareil de lecture CVSD

टॉकिंग बॉक्स: एक CVSD ऑडियो डिजिटाइज़र और प्लेबैक डिवाइस

Talking Box: CVSD オーディオ デジタイザーおよび再生デバイス

Talking Box: CVSD 오디오 디지타이저 및 재생 장치

The Talking Box: um digitalizador de áudio CVSD e dispositivo de reprodução

Говорящий ящик: устройство для оцифровки и воспроизведения звука CVSD

Konuşan Kutu: CVSD Ses Sayısallaştırıcı ve Oynatma Cihazı

Hộp nói: Thiết bị phát lại và số hóa âm thanh CVSD

Talking Box：CVSD 音频数字化仪和播放设备

The management of the Apu Apustaja crypto token has announced that it will be sponsoring the Matchroom Boxing fight card between Subriel Matias and Liam Paro, broadcast live on DAZN on Saturday, the 15th of June 2024. The Fight This fight has been heavily anticipated as it will see Australian fighter Paro go up against Matias for the IBF World Junior Welterweight title at the Coliseo Juan Aubin Cruz Abreu in Manati, Puerto Rico. It will be Matias’s first fight in his hometown since 2019, and both he and his opponent have bragged about their chances of winning. Fans are waiting with bated breath to see who will come out on top, and APU Apustaja is proud to support the event. What is APU? The token creators know all about surviving in a competitive industry, as $APU is a meme coin. It all centers around Apu, a frienly frog who also goes by the name Helper. Unlike a lot of other tokens in the meme coin space, $APU is designed to be high-quality and offer utility to its users. It is fully community-owned, and all major developments within the ecosystem are collectively decided upon. So far, $APU-related projects include a game and a playlist on Spotify that has been made with the input of its community. This is in line with the creation of the Apu character, who came to life in 2016 as an internet character with no individual owner. The $APU token has quickly become an industry favorite, with listings on over 10 centralized crypto exchanges. Its management has also secured its APU.com domain, along with ads all over the New York area. This, along with the passionate community behind it, has seen $APU rising fast in the meme coin world, and some industry experts expect it to become one of the biggest tokens soon. As it continues to progress, $APU continues to keep the community at the forefront. Besides being transparent about the inner workings of the token and giving the community control, APU Apustaja is also proactive about getting involved in entertainment events like the Matias-Paro fight. About Apu Apustaja Apu Apustaja is a fast-rising meme coin that is community-centered while trying to bring substance and positivity to the world of meme tokens. Based on the Ethereum blockchain, it has quickly become a fan favorite, with games, playlists, ads, and participation in real-world events.  Apu Apustaja represents a positive and engaging space for meme and crypto lovers to connect with one another and enjoy all the benefits of blockchain technology. Media Links: Website Telegram Twitter/X This story was distributed as a release by Btcwire under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. Learn more about the program here. The management of the Apu Apustaja crypto token has announced that it will be sponsoring the Matchroom Boxing fight card between Subriel Matias and Liam Paro, broadcast live on DAZN on Saturday, the 15th of June 2024. The Fight This fight has been heavily anticipated as it will see Australian fighter Paro go up against Matias for the IBF World Junior Welterweight title at the Coliseo Juan Aubin Cruz Abreu in Manati, Puerto Rico. It will be Matias’s first fight in his hometown since 2019, and both he and his opponent have bragged about their chances of winning. Fans are waiting with bated breath to see who will come out on top, and APU Apustaja is proud to support the event. What is APU? The token creators know all about surviving in a competitive industry, as $APU is a meme coin. It all centers around Apu, a frienly frog who also goes by the name Helper. Unlike a lot of other tokens in the meme coin space, $APU is designed to be high-quality and offer utility to its users. It is fully community-owned, and all major developments within the ecosystem are collectively decided upon. So far, $APU-related projects include a game and a playlist on Spotify that has been made with the input of its community. This is in line with the creation of the Apu character, who came to life in 2016 as an internet character with no individual owner. The $APU token has quickly become an industry favorite, with listings on over 10 centralized crypto exchanges. Its management has also secured its APU.com domain, along with ads all over the New York area. This, along with the passionate community behind it, has seen $APU rising fast in the meme coin world, and some industry experts expect it to become one of the biggest tokens soon. As it continues to progress, $APU continues to keep the community at the forefront. Besides being transparent about the inner workings of the token and giving the community control, APU Apustaja is also proactive about getting involved in entertainment events like the Matias-Paro fight. About Apu Apustaja Apu Apustaja is a fast-rising meme coin that is community-centered while trying to bring substance and positivity to the world of meme tokens. Based on the Ethereum blockchain, it has quickly become a fan favorite, with games, playlists, ads, and participation in real-world events.  Apu Apustaja represents a positive and engaging space for meme and crypto lovers to connect with one another and enjoy all the benefits of blockchain technology. Media Links: Website Website Telegram Telegram Twitter/X Twitter/X This story was distributed as a release by Btcwire under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. Learn more about the program here. This story was distributed as a release by Btcwire under HackerNoon’s Business Blogging Program. 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APU Apustaja: Official Sponsor Of Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro

APU Apustaja: ম্যাচরুম বক্সিং মাতিয়াস বনাম পারোর অফিসিয়াল স্পনসর

APU Apustaja: Offizieller Sponsor von Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro

APU Apustaja: Patrocinador Oficial De Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro

APU Apustaja : Sponsor Officiel De Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro

एपीयू अपुस्ताजा: मैचरूम बॉक्सिंग मटियास बनाम पारो का आधिकारिक प्रायोजक

APU Apustaja: マッチルームボクシング マティアス対パロの公式スポンサー

APU Apustaja: 매치룸 복싱 Matias 대 Paro의 공식 후원자

APU Apustaja: Patrocinador Oficial do Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro

ВСУ Апустая: официальный спонсор матча по боксу Матиас против Паро

APU Apustaja: Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro'nun Resmi Sponsoru

APU Apustaja: Nhà tài trợ chính thức của Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro

APU Apustaja：Matchroom Boxing Matias Vs Paro 官方赞助商

Pushing the Practicality of Black-Box Audio Attacks against Speaker Recognition Models: Appendix

Minimal Knowledge PT-AE Attacks on Black-Box Speaker Recognition Models

Authors:
(1) Rui Duan University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: ruiduan@usf.edu);
(2) Zhe Qu Central South University Changsha, China (email: zhe_qu@csu.edu.cn);
(3) Leah Ding American University Washington, DC, USA (email: ding@american.edu);
(4) Yao Liu University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: yliu@cse.usf.edu);
(5) Yao Liu University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: yliu@cse.usf.edu). Table of Links Abstract and Intro Background and Motivation Parrot Training: Feasibility and Evaluation PT-AE Generation: A Joint Transferability and Perception Perspective Optimized Black-Box PT-AE Attacks Experimental Evaluations Related Work Conclusion and References Appendix VII. RELATED WORK White-box attacks: Adversarial audio attacks [28], [114], [72], [101], [105], [32], [43], [118], [43], [29], [118] can be categorized into white-box and black-box attacks depending on their attack knowledge level. White-box attacks [28], [95] assumed the knowledge of the target model and leveraged the gradient information of the target model to generate highly effective AEs. Some recent studies aimed at improving the practicality of white-box attacks [72], [52] via adding the perturbation to the original speech signal without synchronization, albeit still assuming nearly full knowledge of the target model. Query-based black-box attacks: Existing black-box attacks [29], [118], [101], [105], [74], [113] assumed no access to the internal knowledge of target models, and most black-box attacks attempted to know the target model via a querying (or probing) strategy. The query-based attacks [29], [43], [118], [113], [74] needed to interact with the target model to get the internal prediction scores [29], [105], [32], [113] or hard label results [118], [74]. A large number of queries were necessary for the black-box attack to be effective. For example, Occam [118] needed over 10,000 queries to achieve a high ASR. This makes the attack strategy cumbersome to launch, especially in over-the-air scenarios. The PT-AE attack does not require any probing to the target model. Transfer-based black-box attacks: The transfer-based attacks [17], [44], [30] commonly assumed no interaction or limited probing [32] to the target model. For example, Kenansville [17] manipulated the phoneme of the speech to achieve an untargeted attack. QFA2SR [30] focused on building the surrogate models with specific ensemble strategies to enhance the transferability of AEs by assuming knowing several speech samples of all the enrolled speakers of the target model. Compared with QFA2SR, we further minimize the knowledge and only assume a short speech sample of the target speaker for the attacker. Even with the most limited attack knowledge, we propose a new PT-AE strategy that creates more effective AEs against the target model. Audio attacks considering the perception quality: Some recent studies [95], [52], [74] leveraged the psychoacoustic feature to optimize the carriers and improve the perception of AEs. Meanwhile, [44], [113] manipulated the features of an audio signal to create AEs with good perceptual quality. In addition, there are audio attack strategies [116], [26], [16], [114] focusing on improving the stealthiness of the AEs. For example, dolphin attack [116] used ultrasounds to generate imperceptible AEs. The human study in this work defines the metric of SRS to quantify the speech quality using a similar regression procedure motivated by the qDev model in [44] that was created to measure the music quality. We then design a new TPR framework built upon the SRS metric to jointly evaluate both the transferability and perception of PT-AEs. This paper is available on arxiv under CC0 1.0 DEED license. Authors: (1) Rui Duan University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: ruiduan@usf.edu); (2) Zhe Qu Central South University Changsha, China (email: zhe_qu@csu.edu.cn); (3) Leah Ding American University Washington, DC, USA (email: ding@american.edu); (4) Yao Liu University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: yliu@cse.usf.edu); (5) Yao Liu University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: yliu@cse.usf.edu). Authors: Authors: (1) Rui Duan University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: ruiduan@usf.edu); (2) Zhe Qu Central South University Changsha, China (email: zhe_qu@csu.edu.cn); (3) Leah Ding American University Washington, DC, USA (email: ding@american.edu); (4) Yao Liu University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: yliu@cse.usf.edu); (5) Yao Liu University of South Florida Tampa, USA (email: yliu@cse.usf.edu). Table of Links Abstract and Intro Abstract and Intro Background and Motivation Background and Motivation Parrot Training: Feasibility and Evaluation Parrot Training: Feasibility and Evaluation PT-AE Generation: A Joint Transferability and Perception Perspective PT-AE Generation: A Joint Transferability and Perception Perspective Optimized Black-Box PT-AE Attacks Optimized Black-Box PT-AE Attacks Experimental Evaluations Experimental Evaluations Related Work Related Work Conclusion and References Conclusion and References Appendix Appendix VII. RELATED WORK White-box attacks: Adversarial audio attacks [28], [114], [72], [101], [105], [32], [43], [118], [43], [29], [118] can be categorized into white-box and black-box attacks depending on their attack knowledge level. White-box attacks [28], [95] assumed the knowledge of the target model and leveraged the gradient information of the target model to generate highly effective AEs. Some recent studies aimed at improving the practicality of white-box attacks [72], [52] via adding the perturbation to the original speech signal without synchronization, albeit still assuming nearly full knowledge of the target model. White-box attacks: Query-based black-box attacks: Existing black-box attacks [29], [118], [101], [105], [74], [113] assumed no access to the internal knowledge of target models, and most black-box attacks attempted to know the target model via a querying (or probing) strategy. The query-based attacks [29], [43], [118], [113], [74] needed to interact with the target model to get the internal prediction scores [29], [105], [32], [113] or hard label results [118], [74]. A large number of queries were necessary for the black-box attack to be effective. For example, Occam [118] needed over 10,000 queries to achieve a high ASR. This makes the attack strategy cumbersome to launch, especially in over-the-air scenarios. The PT-AE attack does not require any probing to the target model. Query-based black-box attacks: Transfer-based black-box attacks: The transfer-based attacks [17], [44], [30] commonly assumed no interaction or limited probing [32] to the target model. For example, Kenansville [17] manipulated the phoneme of the speech to achieve an untargeted attack. QFA2SR [30] focused on building the surrogate models with specific ensemble strategies to enhance the transferability of AEs by assuming knowing several speech samples of all the enrolled speakers of the target model. Compared with QFA2SR, we further minimize the knowledge and only assume a short speech sample of the target speaker for the attacker. Even with the most limited attack knowledge, we propose a new PT-AE strategy that creates more effective AEs against the target model. Transfer-based black-box attacks: Audio attacks considering the perception quality: Some recent studies [95], [52], [74] leveraged the psychoacoustic feature to optimize the carriers and improve the perception of AEs. Meanwhile, [44], [113] manipulated the features of an audio signal to create AEs with good perceptual quality. In addition, there are audio attack strategies [116], [26], [16], [114] focusing on improving the stealthiness of the AEs. For example, dolphin attack [116] used ultrasounds to generate imperceptible AEs. The human study in this work defines the metric of SRS to quantify the speech quality using a similar regression procedure motivated by the qDev model in [44] that was created to measure the music quality. We then design a new TPR framework built upon the SRS metric to jointly evaluate both the transferability and perception of PT-AEs. Audio attacks considering the perception quality: This paper is available on arxiv under CC0 1.0 DEED license. 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