Monthly Archives: July 2024
Kazakhstan’s New “Saka Style” 5K and 10K Tenge Banknotes
The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) has begun entering its new “Saka style” banknotes into circulation with the issuance new 5,000 tenge and 10,000...
Optimizing Serialization: Part 2
The first part of this series discussed microscopic characteristics of serial numbers applied by letterpress numbering machines, detection of counterfeit serial numbers by printing...
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]
As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...