Month: April 2023

The AI singularity is here

Mea culpa: I was wrong. The artificial intelligence (AI) singularity is, in fact, here. Whether we like it or not, AI isn’t something that will possibly, maybe impact software development in the distant future. It’s happening right now. Today. No, not every developer is taking advantage of large language models (LLMs) to build or test

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Build AI apps faster with low-code and no-code

Low-code and no-code platforms are used to build applications, websites, mobile apps, forms, dashboards, data pipelines, and integrations. No-code platforms help business users, sometimes termed citizen developers, to migrate from spreadsheets, extend beyond email collaborations, and transition from manual task execution to using tools and automations across departments. Low-code platforms are usually for technologists and

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Shanghai-based SenseTime announces AI model SenseNova and chatbot SenseChat, available in Chinese and English, following Baidu’s Ernie Bot (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Shanghai-based SenseTime announces AI model SenseNova and chatbot SenseChat, available in Chinese and English, following Baidu’s Ernie Bot  —  SenseTime Group Inc. showed off a suite of new artificial-intelligence services developed with the company’s access to vast troves of data and deep computing power …

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What is Bluetooth Low Energy (LE)?

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Bluetooth has become a valuable feature that many of us rely on every day. But most of the wireless devices you’re likely to own today go one step beyond the classic Bluetooth and you may have not even realized it. Over the past decade, Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) has

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[Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company’s control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage (Molly White/@molly0xfff)

Molly White / @molly0xfff: [Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company’s control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage  —  The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related

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Parallel Computing on the PicoCray RP2040 Cluster

[ExtremeElectronics] cleverly demonstrates that if one Raspberry Pi Pico is good, then nine must be awesome.  The PicoCray project connects multiple Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller modules into a parallel architecture leveraging an I2C bus to communicate between nodes. The same PicoCray code runs on all nodes, but a grounded pin on one of the Pico

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Dell XPS 13 (2023) review: thin, light, nice screen, and improved battery life, but only two ports, quiet speakers, and worse performance than similar models (Monica Chin/The Verge)

Monica Chin / The Verge: Dell XPS 13 (2023) review: thin, light, nice screen, and improved battery life, but only two ports, quiet speakers, and worse performance than similar models  —  The latest XPS 13 is good enough — but no longer good enough to top the market. … The Dell XPS 13 has long

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ISD1700 Based Lo-Fi Sampler

Custom music instruments here at Hackaday range from wacky to poignant. OpnBeat by [Hiro Akihabara] focuses on something different: simplicity. There are few buttons, the design and code are optimized to be straightforward and easy to modify, and the interface is slick. Eight musical keys complement three interface keys and a knob. An Arduino Nano

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Parallel Computing on the PicoCray RP2040 Cluster

[ExtremeElectronics] cleverly demonstrates that if one Raspberry Pi Pico is good, then nine must be awesome.  The PicoCray project connects multiple Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller modules into a parallel architecture leveraging an I2C bus to communicate between nodes. The same PicoCray code runs on all nodes, but a grounded pin on one of the Pico

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As Congress weighs regulating AI, consumer advocates and the tech industry converge on Washington, DC to influence US lawmakers, most of whom lack AI expertise (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: As Congress weighs regulating AI, consumer advocates and the tech industry converge on Washington, DC to influence US lawmakers, most of whom lack AI expertise  —  After years of inaction on Big Tech — and the explosive success of ChatGPT — lawmakers aim to avoid similar mistakes with artificial intelligence

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A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms  —  Big companies are hiring an ever-larger proportion of America’s inventors, who are less productive once they join

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In a reversal, Twitter lets users like, retweet, and reply to tweets with Substack links, but searches with “Substack” still just give results for “newsletter” (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: In a reversal, Twitter lets users like, retweet, and reply to tweets with Substack links, but searches with “Substack” still just give results for “newsletter”  —  In a reversal of a limitation the platform put in place earlier in the week, Twitter is once again allowing users …

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Hackaday Links: April 9, 2023

When it comes to cryptocurrency security, what’s the best way to secure the private key? Obviously, the correct answer is to write it on a sticky note and put it on the bezel of your monitor; nobody’ll ever think of looking there. But, if you’re slightly more paranoid, and you have access to a Falcon

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