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Why language models hallucinate
OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,918 posts.
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Julia 1.9
Highlights of the Julia 1.9 release.
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Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame
In light of the recent announcements by NVIDIA and AMD in support of Linux for their graphics drivers, we would like to share with the world some of the experience we had developing our open source project, Dolphin, a GameCube and Wii emulator for Windows, Linux, Mac and recently Android....
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Keeping Open Source Open
Every user of Rocky Linux is valued and their contributions matter. From software engineers to IT professionals and hobbyists, together, we are all pa...
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
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An update on recent service disruptions
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.
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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
We found three cases where a Claude model reached the internet from an evaluation environment and accessed real systems. We share what happened and what we're changing.
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Inside The Fine Art Factories of China
When Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo toiled for four years on his master work. Renoir spent six months painting Luncheon of the Boating Party—the painting featured in the film Amélie. Even Guernica, which Pablo Picasso painted quickly to publicize the…
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Fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
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Fooling Neural Networks in the Physical World with 3D Adversarial Objects
We've developed an approach to generate 3D adversarial objects that reliably fool neural networks in the real world, no matter how the objects are looked at.
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ORC – Nim's new memory managment
ORC - Algorithmic Advantages
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The Revel Web Framework for Go
Edit, save, and refresh. Revel compiles your code and templates for you, so you don't miss a beat. Code doesn't compile? It gives you a helpful description . Run-time code panic? Revel has you covered .
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The Merge
Learn about The Merge, when Ethereum Mainnet moved from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in September 2022, cutting its energy use by about 99.95%.
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Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa
After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s products throughout…
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Reddit needs help
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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PyPy is faster than C, again: string formatting
String formatting is probably something you do just about every day in Python, and never think about. It's so easy, just "%d %d" % (i, i) ...
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The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler
The technology industry is still young, but its history is already rich with myths and legends.
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Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Today, we open sourced our Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries, fulfilling a promise and building on our partnership with Sparkasse to support EU age assurance.
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LXD is now under Canonical
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
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Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack
On Monday we mitigated a large DDoS that targeted one of our customers. The attack peaked just shy of 400Gbps. We've seen a handful of other attacks at this scale, but this is the largest attack we've seen that uses NTP amplification.
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Cornell Ergonomics Web finds standing desks present their own issues
Sitting for more than 1 hour has been shown to induce biochemical changes in lipoprotein lipase activity (an enzyme involved in fat metabolism) and in glucose metabolism that leads to the deposit of fats in adipose tissue rather than these being metabolized by muscle, and extensive sitting also relates to heart…
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Introducing Superalignment
We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for excellent ML…
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Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business
Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases.
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Introducing Riptide: WebKit's Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector
The new Riptide garbage collector in WebKit leads to a five-fold improvement in latency in the JetStream/splay-latency test.
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GCC 5.1 released
Command-line optimization and target options are now streamed on a per-function basis and honored by the link-time optimizer. This change makes link-time optimization a more transparent replacement of per-file optimizations. It is now possible to build projects that require different optimization settings for…
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180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.