The top software development news of the year

This article contains 10 of what we believe to be the biggest stories we covered throughout the year on SD Times.

People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With AI-Generated Kids

Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein- and Diddy-themed play sets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.
Investopedia

Understanding Reference Rates: Key Insights and Practical Examples

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...
IEEE

CenterNet++ for Object Detection

Abstract: There are two mainstream approaches for object detection: top-down and bottom-up. The state-of-the-art approaches are mainly top-down methods. In this paper, we demonstrate that bottom-up ...
IEEE

YOLOv7: Trainable Bag-of-Freebies Sets New State-of-the-Art for Real-Time Object Detectors

Abstract: Real-time object detection is one of the most important research topics in computer vision. As new approaches regarding architecture optimization and training optimization are continually ...