The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — After a remarkable pace at the start in January, the legislative activity settled ...

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It encompasses a Boosted BiLSTM Intrusion Detector Network (BBIDNet) to identify intrusions with precise accuracy and a Fuzzy-DQN Threat Mitigation System (FD-TMS) to respond to threats dynamically.