Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol (www.schneier.com)
a digital wallet is a repository for personal data and documents. Right now, there are hundreds of different wallets, but no standard.
AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks (www.tomshardware.com)
We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands (arstechnica.com)
Despite Spending $100 billion on AI Google is still no where close to a real ai assistant | Amazon Walkout failure and no real plan for sustainable profit. (www.arktrek.shop)
OpenAI had/will have a page about Microsoft for Startups. Why? (openai.com)
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /microsoft-for-startups/...
Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood (blog.codingconfessions.com)
People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)
Tesla’s profits sank sharply in the second quarter of 2024 | The company’s revenue increased by 2 percent compared to last year, but profits are down 45 percent year over year (www.theverge.com)
Tesla published its second quarter earnings report, in which the company said it earned $1.48 billion in net income on $25.5 billion in revenue. That represents a 2 percent increase year over year compared to $24.9 billion in revenue in Q2 2023 but a 45 percent drop in net income....
The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes (www.wired.com)
Zen - a clean and simple text editor in your browser (zen.unit.ms)
Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric” (arstechnica.com)
Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Apple’s rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.
Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet (www.howtogeek.com)
Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks (www.tomshardware.com)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a four-legged robot designed to jam the wireless transmissions of smart home devices. The robot was revealed at the 2024 Border Security Expo and is called NEO. It is built using the Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) and looks a lot like the...
Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers (www.cnbc.com)
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)
I spoke with Llama 3.1-405B (medium.com)
New Samsung phones block sideloading by default (www.androidauthority.com)
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 (blog.knowbe4.com)
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Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (www.wsj.com)
Llama 3.1 is Meta's latest salvo in the battle for AI dominance (www.engadget.com)
Meta on Tuesday announced the release of Llama 3.1, the latest version of its large language model that the company claims now rivals competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic. The new model comes just three months after Meta launched Llama 3 by integrating it into Meta AI, a chatbot that now lives in Facebook, Messenger, Instagram...
Llama 3.1 AI Models Have Officially Released (llama.meta.com)
Big day for people who use AI locally. According to benchmarks this is a big step forward to free, small LLMs.
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)
Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the US, is seemingly unaffected by the problematic CrowdStrike update that caused millions of computers to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) because it used Windows 3.1. The CrowdStrike issue disrupted operations globally after a faulty update caused newer computers to freeze and stop...
