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TikTok Owner Sacks Intern For Sabotaging AI Project

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, fired an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its AI models. However, the firm “rejected claims about the extent of the damage caused by the unnamed individual, saying they ‘contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies,’” reports the BBC. From the report: The Chinese technology giant’s Doubao ChatGPT-like generative

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JDK 24: The new features in Java 24

In the wake of Java Development Kit (JDK) 23, which arrived September 17, work has begun on JDK 24, with five features so far proposed for the release: stream gatherers, a vector API, a class-file API, warnings to prepare developers for future restrictions on the use of JNI (Java Native Interface), and a late barrier

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Qualcomm claims to have the fastest smartphone chip ever and here’s the evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrf7rsYF20A Qualcomm’s next-gen mobile processor is here, and it looks like an absolute unit. The Snapdragon 8 Elite sports a return to a custom CPU design, a brand-new GPU architecture, and even snappier AI smarts. If you’re wondering how all this compares to today’s best smartphones, Qualcomm has some preliminary benchmark figures to share with

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How does a CPU work?

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority If you’ve read any of Android Authority‘s CPU deep dives, you’re hopefully a bona fide expert on the ins and outs of how processors work. But don’t worry if not. These topics are dense and require a lot of background knowledge to get to grips with fully. It’s taken

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Who will deliver useful AI to the masses?

The industry has been saying Apple is behind and asking when the iPhone maker would ever bring out AI — but the industry has always underestimated Apple. Today, toward the end of 2024, Apple Intelligence has still not yet been deployed. What frame of reference is there for postulating how important it is for “first

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Nintendo’s mysterious Playtest begins to leak

Simply telling playtesters not to share any details hasn’t exactly worked out. | Image: The Verge Nintendo has updated the official website for its mysterious “Switch Online: Playtest Program” today, privately revealing more information to participants about what it entails. The playtest is running from October 23rd, 9PM ET until November 5th, 8PM ET, and

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