Meta and Microsoft release Llama 2, an AI language model for commercial use | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
China Claims World’s Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network (www.bloomberg.com)
China Claims World’s Fastest Internet With 1.2 Terabit-Per-Second Network::Huawei Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000 kilometer (1,860-mile) internet network linking Beijing to the south, which the country is touting as its latest technological breakthrough.
Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple's Blue Text Bubbles (gizmodo.com)
Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple’s Blue Text Bubbles::Yes, even Google appears to be tired of green texts on the iMessage app.
Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ (www.bloomberg.com)
Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.
The Beatles’ final song is now streaming thanks to AI (www.theverge.com)
#PimEyes facial recognition search engine now blocks searches for children’s faces (news.retiolus.net)
Black founders received 0.13% of capital this Q3 | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Funding to Black founders is only getting worse after the promises made in 2020.
A Marvelous Footnote in Tech History – the Mindset Computer and the Vyper Game (blisscast.wordpress.com)
Even if it’s not anywhere as famous as Silicon Graphics machines, this workstation from the 80s has something that others don’t have; a game exclusive to it, that fully takes advantage of the so impressive graphics that it could display! Check it out at the link here!...
Murena Two will have a a kill switch to prevent snooping (murena.com)
Murena is launching a smartphone with physical switches to turn off the camera, microphone and network.
[EFF] California’s Middle Mile Network Must Bridge the Digital Divide, Not Reinforce It (www.eff.org)
Summary...
Sourcegraph website breached using leaked admin access token (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Sinopec says gasoline demand will peak this year (www.bloomberg.com)
BNEF journalist Colin McKerracher summarizes trends in China predicting a peak in fossil transport fuel: electric vehicle car sales, two and three wheeled electric kilometers traveled, electric trucks reaching the tipping point and ride hailing legislation.
Researchers use cloud to replicate supercomputer for heart disease study (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft’s new Office default theme and font arrives in September (www.theverge.com)
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With our own image and video search, Brave Search now offers comprehensive independent results, giving users a fully-fledged, privacy-preserving choice outside of Big Tech (brave.com)
Building new materials atom by atom (phys.org)
Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down (www.wired.com)
Telegram Stories are here — but only if you have a Premium subscription (www.androidcentral.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...
Telegram adds Stories for Premium subscribers (www.theverge.com)
But even though I don’t have premium, I saw one?
Running Stable Diffusion on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 (or in 260MB of RAM) (github.com)
On the outside it’s a funny experiment but actually it’s a fantastic tool that proves Stable Diffusion can run on anything, given enough time.