Tuning and Testing Llama 2, FLAN-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio (www.sematic.dev)
Microsoft in EU antitrust crosshairs over Teams, Office tying (www.reuters.com)
BRUSSELS, July 27 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday found itself the target of an EU antitrust investigation over the tying of its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, putting it at risk of a hefty fine....
Twitter took @x handle from longtime user and only offered him “some merch” (arstechnica.com)
Hwang confirmed to Ars today that “there was no financial compensation” offered to him. The company offered “to switch the @x account and its history/followers etc to a new handle once I select one that is available,” Hwang told us. “They also offered some merch and to meet with the management team as well.”
‘Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It,’ The President Says About A Bill The GOP Says Will Be Useful To Silence LGBTQ Voices (www.techdirt.com)
Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....
Deepfake video: Parody ad for Meta-Metaverse (www.youtube.com)
5 Tips to Help You Get Started with Coding (poetryandphilosophy.substack.com)
5 Tips to Help You Get Started with Coding
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (www.theverge.com)
FPGA - is it possible to avoid Intel ME/AMD ME/etc?
There is one large glaring security concern in modern CPUs, ME. Is it possible to avoid ME with FPGA or some other hardware?
The best air fryers for 2023 (www.engadget.com)
Best overall: Instant Vortex Plus...
Hollywood Is on Strike Against High-Tech Exploitation (jacobin.com)
Hollywood Is on Strike Against High-Tech Exploitation::As both writers and actors are on the picket lines in Hollywood, the stakes couldn’t be higher: Will average entertainment workers be able to eke out a living in an industry awash in cash, or will studio executives use new tech like AI to gobble up all of it?
Microsoft’s Bing Chat comes to Chrome and Safari in tests for ‘select users’ (techcrunch.com)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS (jessems.com)
Artificial intelligence can seem more human than actual humans on social media, study finds (www.psypost.org)
Artificial intelligence can seem more human than actual humans on social media, study finds::A new study suggests that OpenAI’s GPT-3 can both inform and disinform more effectively than real people on social media. The research, published in Science Advances, also highlights the challenges of identifying synthetic...
Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication (arstechnica.com)
Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status (arstechnica.com)
Phone video to 3D model of hair (www.youtube.com)
OpenAI's head of trust and safety Dave Willner steps down | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
A significant personnel change is afoot at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence juggernaut that has nearly single-handedly inserted the concept of generative AI into global public discourse with the launch of ChatGPT. Dave Willner, an industry veteran who was the startup’s head of trust and safety, announced in a post on...
Geothermal Ahead of Schedule (twitter.com)
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Still Committed to $75 Billion Merger (www.wsj.com)
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Still Committed to $75 Billion Merger::Companies plan to continue work to resolve lingering regulatory issues
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (arstechnica.com)
Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data (www.wired.com)
Meta unveils new AI data centers and supercomputer to power AI-first future (venturebeat.com)
At the AI Infra @ Scale event today — a one-day virtual conference hosted by Meta’s engineering and infrastructure teams — the company announced a series of new hardware and software projects that aim to support the next generation of AI applications. The event featured speakers from Meta who shared their insights and...
U.S. blacklists spyware companies, citing security threats (wapo.st)
Intellexa and Cytrox were added to a federal “entity list” that prohibits American companies from engaging in certain trade activities with them
A privacy analysis of Meta’s new Threads app (proton.me)
“ What’s important to note is that this list is identical to those of the Facebook and Instagram apps. So if you use these other Meta products, you’ve already surrendered this information to the company.”
