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But with serverless you don't pay for idle time ! (jlai.lu)

Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) (arxiv.org)

Abstract:...

Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (www.wired.com)

That graphic sums up my entire educational experience. archive.is/hvZ5q

Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers (apnews.com)

Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel (matt.si)

Great question Michael (jlai.lu)

Here's what's new about the Fairphone 4 - Fairphone (www.fairphone.com)

“We just gave the Fairphone 4 a revolutionary update, with a completely refreshed camera experience, and we couldn’t be prouder.”...

Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge (arstechnica.com)

📱Question about GrapheneOS factory reset

If I do a factory reset on my phone that has GrapheneOS on it, will that revert it to the stock android that it originally came with or to a “fresh” clean, brand new GrapheneOS? I found conflicting information about this online . . . 🤔

We are closing in on zero-carbon cement (www.volts.wtf)

Alan Pope: "Multiple genuine-looking scam cryptocurrency miners and fake Bitcoin wallet applications have been published in the Snap store since 2018." (popey.com)

I used a sentence from the article as the title since I felt it represented the actual issue better, let me know if I should change it....

Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public (arstechnica.com)

This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.

Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ (nypost.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/10105454...

JavaScript Bloat in 2024 (tonsky.me)

How Google is killing independent sites like ours (housefresh.com)

Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating (www.spacebar.news)

The rise and fall of robots.txt: As unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. (www.theverge.com)

China's latest stealth tech promises invisible fighter jets, says report (interestingengineering.com)

New plasma stealth device targets specific areas, not entire aircraft....

EU launches NGI TALER project (taler.net)

Cryptocurrencies are often understood to enable private payments, but most don’t. Monero does, but its value still fluctuates and wastes energy (even if far less than Bitcoin) in time of the climate catastrophe....

[OpenAI] Sora: Creating video from text (openai.com)

There’s also more example videos on the technical report...

Why are camera taken videos at the same resolution way bigger than ones ripped from youtube?

A 4 min 1080p30fps video taken with my phone camera is 518MB, While a 12 min 1080p30fps video ripped from youtube is 341MB, both are using mp4 h.264 as codec and the youtube one isnt of lower quality, so why this big difference?

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)

Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (www.reuters.com)

Britain’s National Crime Agency Cyber Division, with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seized control of websites used by Lockbit the gang and U.S. and British authorities said. The agencies also took the extraordinary step of using Lockbit’s own website to release internal data about...

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