Number of norovirus patients in England at highest level this winter, as NHS warns of 'second surge'

Dr Claire Fuller, NHS national medical director for England, warned cases of the vomiting and diarrhoea bug could spike again.

Emeka Okafor becomes third UConn men’s basketball player to have number retired

Emeka Okafor became the third UConn men’s basketball player to have his number retired, with the Huskies honoring the former national player of the year at halftime of their loss to Creighton.

ISU defends Olympic ice dance scoring after French judge’s margin swings gold to French team over US

The International Skating Union defends Olympic ice dance judging after a French judge’s scores swung the gold medal race.
InfoWorld

Last JavaScript-based TypeScript arrives in beta

TypeScript 6.0 is intended to be the last release based on the current JavaScript codebase, before a Go-based compiler and language service debuts in TypeScript 7.0.
IEEE

Integer or Floating Point? New Outlooks for Low-Bit Quantization on Large Language Models

Abstract: Efficient deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires low-bit quantization to reduce model size and inference cost. Besides low-bit integer formats (e.g., INT8/INT4) used in previous ...
IEEE

An Area-Efficient Large Integer NTT-Multiplier Using Discrete Twiddle Factor Approach

Abstract: Number theoretic transform (NTT) method shows great advantages in speed and efficiency for applications such as homomorphic encryption. However, the twiddle factor data consumes a lot of ...