Microsoft

Copilot’s agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are generally available

Today, I am excited to share that agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available. Copilot can take multi-step, app-native actions directly in your documents, ...
Ancient Origins

Syria's 'Dead Cities' Show Advanced Roman-Byzantine Domestic Layouts

A new study published in the Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research (BASOR) has revealed advanced construction techniques and sophisticated domestic layouts in the ancient village of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Fall of the Roman Empire Was Less a Clash of Civilizations and More an Opportunity to Mix and Mingle, a New Genetics Study Shows

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...
MedievalMadness on MSN

How Byzantium crushed 15,000 Hungarian horsemen at Sirmium in 1167

In 1167, the Battle of Sirmium became a brutal showdown between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary for control ...
IEEE

Communication-Efficient and Byzantine-Robust Differentially Private Federated Learning

Abstract: Federated learning, as a novel paradigm of machine learning, is facing a series of challenges such as efficiency, privacy and robustness. The recently proposed EF-DP- SIGNSGD provides ...
Greek Reporter

20 Years of Anarchy: The Darkest Hour of the Byzantine Empire

Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of ...
IEEE

A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform

Abstract: Hyperledger Fabric is a flexible operating system for permissioned blockchains designed for business applications beyond the basic digital coin addressed by Bitcoin and other existing ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Dead Bodies Filled a Mass Grave When the First Plague Pandemic Struck This Early Medieval City. New Research Explores the Identity of the Victims

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept through the Byzantine Empire ...
Greek Reporter

Byzantine Empire’s CIA: The Intelligence Network That Secured Its Survival

The Bureau of Barbarians, the Byzantine Empire’s sophisticated intelligence-gathering agency. Credit: Greek Reporter archive Byzantine intelligence played a decisive role in the survival of the ...