TikTok is adding text posts (www.theverge.com)
This is the one video to watch about what is happening with AI rn, especially when it comes to Meta/Llama-2 and its place in FOSS. Yann LeCun is former Bell Labs AI just like Stallman. (piped.video)
This is one of the few videos I’ve watched that has stayed on my mind for days. I’ve been exploring this space myself, and I really think the perspective presented here is the real future. All the stupid media and push back in this space seems like a big campaign to try to salvage OpenAI and Google’s massive investments in...
AI is making it possible to clone voices (archive.ph)
That could help fraudsters and disrupt creative industries
The best air fryers for 2023 (www.engadget.com)
Best overall: Instant Vortex Plus...
A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations (techxplore.com)
A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations::A back support exoskeleton has been developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology—IIT) to improve railway workers’ safety and conditions for heavy manual material handling during maintenance …
Business Transcription Market (www.emergenresearch.com)
Business Transcription includes transcription of video or audio content arising from webinars, interviews, workshops, teleseminars, seminars teleclasses, meeting notes, personal notes, presentations, conferences, and others that are used for professional or commercial purposes or objectives. Some organizations are reluctant to...
'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest (www.vice.com)
‘FUCK SPEZ’: Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit’s collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit’s CEO.
Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles (www.nytimes.com)
Microsoft’s Bing Chat comes to Chrome and Safari in tests for ‘select users’ (techcrunch.com)
The Flipper Zero has an app store now (www.theverge.com)
Jury orders Google to pay $339M for patent-infringing Chromecast (arstechnica.com)
A Scientific Breakthrough in Noise Reduction (nautil.us)
Intel Details APX - Advanced Performance Extensions (www.phoronix.com)
Following Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and more recently Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for furthering the x86_64 CPU compute potential, Intel has now published initial details on APX: Advanced Performance Extensions....
Twitter’s Rebrand To X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks To Microsoft (themessenger.com)
Features in Windows 11 (snubix.com)
Microsoft recently showed that it has a good ear for its user base by bringing back a number of features that were going to be removed from Windows 11 File Explorer. The IT giant had initially intended to modernize File Explorer’s UI, but after criticism from the public, they changed their minds. This instance demonstrates the...
JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going (cloudinary.com)
The NDAA is No Place for Sweeping Internet Legislation Like the STOP CSAM Act (www.eff.org)
EFF:...
Code Kept Secret for Years Reveals Its Flaw—a Backdoor (archive.is)
The backdoor, known for years by vendors that sold the technology but not necessarily by customers, exists in an encryption algorithm baked into radios sold for commercial use in critical infrastructure.
“We’re Huge in Learning Loss!” Cashing in on the Post-Pandemic Education Crisis. (www.propublica.org)
Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi... (fortune.com)
Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi…::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.
Musk rushes out new Twitter logo—it’s just an X that someone tweeted at him (arstechnica.com)
Intel AVX10: Taking AVX-512 With More Features & Supporting It Across P/E Cores (www.phoronix.com)
Good grief....
Apple fixes new zero-day used in attacks against iPhones, Macs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree (www.cnn.com)
‘It almost doubled our workload’: AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree::A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.