10 short story collections to add to your TBR book pile in 2026

Authors Louise Erdrich, Helen Garner, Rachel Khong, Rebecca Roanhorse, Ruth Ozeki and the late Lore Segal all have collections coming out.

OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

IISc CCE announces 6G ML course with Python, AI modules and evening online classes; check details here

The Indian Institute of Science has announced an online course on machine learning for 6G wireless communication under its ...
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Machine Learning for the Birds: Building Your Own Bird Vocalization Classifier

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Prepare honestly

Disclaimer: This column is merely a guiding voice and provides advice and suggestions on education and careers. The writer is ...
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Over puppy yoga? Try it with snakes.

You've heard of yoga with kittens, and goats, and maybe even reindeer… but what about a bunch of pythons and one baby ...
GitHub

Cinema-grade audio DSP engine for streaming music — built in C++ and Python.

Most music players apply no DSP — or apply cheap brickwall EQ and call it "enhancement". Kudio treats every chunk of audio as if it were passing through a professional mastering chain: All the heavy ...
IEEE

Optimizing CNN-GRU Hybrid Ratios for Resource-Constrained Audio Classification: A Systematic Study From Parameter Efficiency to MCU Deployment

Abstract: Urban sound classification has become a critical enabling technology for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, smart cities, and environmental monitoring systems. Despite advances in deep ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Cybersecurity and Forensic Audio Analysis: Deepfake Detection Based on Mfcc, Audio-Text Disconsistency, and Prosodic Features ()

1 Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies Education, Gazi Faculty of Education, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye. 2 Department of Forensic Informatics, Institute of Informatics, Gazi ...
IEEE

Meta-Learning with Pretrained Audio Representations Enables One-Shot Acoustic Signal Classification

Few-shot acoustic signal classification remains a challenging problem due to the high diversity and variability of acoustic data and limited availability of labeled samples. While pretrained audio ...