Yoshua Bengio’s pioneering research helped bring about ChatGPT and the current AI boom. Now he’s worried AI could harm civilization, and says the future needs a humanity defense organization.
Read MoreMyanmar’s military junta is increasing surveillance and violating basic human rights. The combination of physical and digital surveillance is reaching dangerous new levels.
Read MoreWhen disturbing online profiles appeared in her name, Melissa Trixie Watt was sure she knew who was behind the harassment. But she had to fight to get help from the police—and prove it in court.
Read MoreMorgan Sung / TechCrunch: Twitch launches Stories, expiring after 48 hours, for Partners and Affiliates who have streamed at least once for 45 minutes or longer in the last 30 days — Ahead of TwitchCon Las Vegas, Twitch is launching stories for streamers to connect with their audience even when they aren’t live.
Read MoreMike Isaac / New York Times: Meta identifies and fixes a bug after thousands of Palestinian supporters say their posts were suppressed or removed from Facebook and Instagram — Meta has cautioned that some posts may be temporarily suppressed or suspended as it sifts through millions of posts spreading across its platforms.
Read MoreScott Chipolina / Financial Times: Sources: Israel compelled Binance to suspend 100+ accounts since Hamas’ attacks on October 7; Binance confirms the exchange “blocked” a “small number” of users — Authorities close more than 100 accounts on Binance as appeals for donations appear on social media platforms
Read MoreMK Manoylov / The Block: Uniswap plans to start implementing a 0.15% fee for certain crypto trades on its web app and wallet from October 17, generating an estimated $1M per day in fees — – Uniswap will add a new fee starting on Oct. 17 for certain swaps on its web interface and wallet.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google recently launched the Pixel 8 phones and we discovered that the long-running Photo Sphere Mode was missing from these devices. It wasn’t the most important camera mode in the world, but it was still a nifty feature that allowed you to capture 360-degree images. That got us wondering
Read MoreThe AI models behind chatbots like ChatGPT can accurately guess a user’s personal information from innocuous chats. Researchers say the troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.
Read MoreThe Philips SAA1099 is perhaps one of the lesser-known among the crop of 1980s-era 8-bit sound generator chips, but with three stereo voices onboard it makes a capable instrument for chiptune experimentation. It’s attracted the attention of [Folkert van Heusden], who’s tried the novel experiment of seeing what happens when a sound chip’s clock is
Read MoreGenerally available starting Tuesday, Compass is designed to provide developers with a centralized platform that helps to promote a healthy engineering culture.
Read MoreLarge language models (LLMs) have emerged to become an integral part of the software stack. They are available through APIs from providers like Cohere, Google Cloud, and OpenAI or as open-source models hosted on Hugging Face. However, utilizing LLMs isn’t merely about sending prompts. Developers must consider aspects like parameter adjustments, prompt augmentation, and response
Read MoreTeams implementing Apache Kafka, or expanding their use of the powerful open source distributed event streaming platform, often need help understanding how to correctly size and scale Kafka resources for their needs. It can be tricky. Whether you are considering cloud or on-prem hardware resources, understanding how your Kafka cluster will utilize CPU, RAM, and storage
Read MoreGuess what? Cloud computing conferences are now generative AI conferences. How did that happen? It’s a simple matter of cloud providers seeing generative AI as the best way to sell more cloud services, and they are not wrong. As businesses shift to an AI-driven ecosystem, most of it plays out in cloud computing environments. That’s
Read MoreJane Zhang / Bloomberg: Chinese generative AI startup Baichuan, one of the first to win approval to release its LLMs, raised $300M from Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, and others — – Phone maker Xiaomi also participated in a $300 million round — Chinese AI investment is surging as tech firms join race
Read MoreNew York Times: US v. SBF: Nishad Singh says SBF used customer funds for spending sprees that “reeked of excess” and he learned of an $8B hole two months before FTX collapsed — Nishad Singh, testifying at Mr. Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial, said FTX customer deposits were used to buy luxury real estate …
Read MoreShaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: The FTX estate floats an amended proposal to return up to 90% of creditor holdings, divided into three pools, and plans to formally file the plan by December 16 — An amended proposal released early Tuesday will be filed by the FTX Debtors by mid-December if approved.
Read MoreOokla’s Q3 2023 Speedtest Intelligence report reveals that T-Mobile is the fastest US carrier by a huge margin. The iPhone 15 Pro Max was also crowned as the fastest internet phone for the quarter. Ookla, the maker of the famous SpeedTest website and app, has run the numbers and crowned T-Mobile as the fastest mobile
Read MoreHumans are teaming up with dogs to eliminate the blood-sucking pests, but there’s no overarching strategy, just eye-watering costs.
Read MoreStack Overflow, a question-and-answer portal for developers, is laying off nearly a third of its workforce to replace it with generative AI-driven coding assistants, such as Microsoft Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Google Bard. “This year we took many steps to spend less. Changes have been pursued through the lens of minimizing the impact on the
Read MoreCredit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority Some Pixel 6 series owners have reported serious problems after the Android 14 update. These users have reported issues such as inaccessible storage and crashing. Google Pixel phones haven’t had the best reputation for software stability over the years. Unfortunately, the company doesn’t seem to be helping matters thanks
Read MoreOne-Punch Man draws a very real parallel to how we feel about our abilities today. Saitama knows what he is capable of and has trained to the point of being untouchable. At the same time, no one knows what he can do, and no one appreciates it. Worse still, his abilities no longer bring him
Read MoreCristina Criddle / Financial Times: A look at sexism in the video games industry; State of the Game Industry 2023 report: ~23% are women, up from 20% in 2022, 5% are non-binary, and 70% are men — Younger recruits to the industry might find not enough has changed — As soon as Karina* started work
Read MoreEver since an impromptu build completed during a two-week COVID-19 quarantine back in 2020, [Will Whang] has been steadily improving his Raspberry Pi solar photography setup. It integrates a lot of cool stuff: multiple sensors, high bandwidth storage, and some serious hardware. This is no junk drawer build either, the current version uses a $2000
Read MoreKarissa Bell / Engadget: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses review: sleek charging case and better audio and camera, but feels like a novelty, Meta AI isn’t useful yet, and limited ecosystem — An accessory for your face and your social media accounts. — A lot has changed in the two years since Facebook released its Ray
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