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...
Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month (alternativeto.net)
Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024 (thehackernews.com)
See also: …googleblog.com/…/sustaining-digital-certificate-…
Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage | Euronews (www.euronews.com)
Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome (www.campaignlive.com)
In a blog post released on Monday, VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez said that Google is “proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice” by allowing users to select whether or not they want to enable cookies on Chrome and adjust that choice “at any time.”...
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.
What is Firefox supposed to do? (www.spacebar.news)
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...
Learning Map to master AdobeXD
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Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (www.wsj.com)
Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Packs a Punch with New Specs Unveiled in Latest Leak (www.techtimes.com)
Google packed the Pixel 9 Pro XL with a punch, as evidenced by its latest leaked specs.
In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities. (restofworld.org)
Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18305395
People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account (newrepublic.com)
Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues (www.notebookcheck.net)
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla (www.theverge.com)
New youtube layout? (lemmy.world)
Hey, I was browsing youtube in private mode, and out of nowhere it started looking like this, I really hope this doesn’t go through lolol…...
Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis (www.wired.com)
Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers (www.cnbc.com)
After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts (www.dailydot.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/kamala-twitter-account-follow-l…
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