The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B (arstechnica.com)
Far-right trolls have launched a racist crusade against Kamala Harris (www.motherjones.com)
Nearly half of 18-24-year-olds say they're 'not fully straight', survey finds (www.thepinknews.com)
Putin pulls units out of Ukraine to defend Russia, Kyiv says (www.politico.eu)
People leave New Zealand in record numbers as economy bites (www.reuters.com)
People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic, government statistics show....
Patreon will have to use Apple's in-app purchase system or be removed from the App Store (www.engadget.com)
Ad industry initiative abruptly shuts down after lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines (arstechnica.com)
m/Polyamory is LIVE (kbin.run)
I searched this morning for communities related to polyamory and open relationships. Finding nothing, I created something. If you are interested in polyamory, open relationships, ethical non-monogamy, etc, swing on by for a chat, to post something silly, as you will....
Education Department forgives $1.2B in student loans for 35,000 borrowers (www.upi.com)
Baltic countries notify Russia and Belarus they will exit the Moscow-controlled electricity grid (apnews.com)
The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.
'I'm supposed to be dead' says Trump after assassination attempt (www.bbc.com)
Speaking as he prepared to board a flight to the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is expected to be confirmed as the party’s candidate for president, Mr Trump said he now had a “chance to bring the country together”....
OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content (www.tomshardware.com)
Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?
US announces $125 million military aid package for Ukraine (apnews.com)
The U.S. is sending Ukraine an additional $125 million in weapons to assist in its military operations against Russia, including much-needed air defense capabilities, radars to detect and counter enemy artillery and anti-tank weapons, the White House announced Friday....
UK: Far-right rioters storm hotel housing migrants (www.dw.com)
Police in the northern English city of Rotherham struggled to hold back a group of far-right activists on Sunday, who broke into a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers....
Microsoft to Copyright Pi, Found to Contain Entire Arial Font (sebastiancarlos.com)
Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence (www.ft.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18088686...
Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains? (www.theverge.com)
Fuck-up Assessment Form (sh.itjust.works)
TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules. (en.wikipedia.org)
US not afraid of escalation from Russia over events in Kursk Oblast (www.pravda.com.ua)
The Pentagon has expressed no concern regarding the advance of Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Pentagon’s press service reports....
Adam Britton: British croc expert jailed for sexual abuse of dogs (www.bbc.com)
Adam Britton, a leading zoologist who has worked on BBC and National Geographic productions, pleaded guilty to 56 charges relating to bestiality and animal cruelty....
COVID still 'very much with us' with 20% of tests positive in Europe, WHO warns (www.euronews.com)
She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women (www.theguardian.com)
The household was fast asleep when the six men broke in. They sought out Sobia Batool Shah, 22, and one of them attacked her with a hatchet, chopping at her limbs in an effort to sever her legs. “He was relentless and must have hit me at least 15 times,” she says....
Kamala Harris was less than 20ft from pipe bomb on Jan 6, report reveals (www.independent.co.uk)
Vice President Kamala Harris was less than 20 feet from a “viable” pipe bomb on January 6, according to a new report from Homeland Security’s internal watchdog....
