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ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
Uber has widely adopted Golang (Go for short) as a primary programming language for implementing backend services and libraries due to its high performance. The Go monorepo is the largest codebase at Uber, comprising 90 million lines of code (and growing). This makes tooling for writing reliable Go code a critical…
The pganalyze Indexing Engine simulates hundreds of possible combinations to recommend missing Postgres indexes using its 'What if?' analysis.
The UK AAIB says high-powered film lights caused damaged to the windows of the Titan Airways A321neo G-OATW.
In December of last year, we paused the planned deprecation of Manifest V2 in order to address developer feedback and deliver better solutions to migration issues . As a result of this feedback, we’ve made a number of changes to Manifest V3 to close these gaps , including:
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
TAG’s discovery of a 0-day exploit used to steal email data from international government organizations.
Today, we’re announcing new research into controlled image editing based solely on text instructions and a method for text-to-video generation based on diffusion models.
Attention Subtitles Enthusiasts! Big Changes Ahead for OpenSubtitles.org API As the familiar landscape of online movie subtitle searches undergoes a transformation, OpenSubtitles.org has announced the end of its original API service in 2022. A significant shift in its system has been set in motion, marking the end of…
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique.
New study finds that so-called ‘smart drugs’ reduce the quality of effort, and increase time taken to complete a decision-making task in cognitively healthy people.
Announcing our most advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments, designed to open a new playground for creativity
Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help…
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
A new CPU vulnerability, ‘Reptar,’ found by Google researchers, has been patched by Google and Intel. Here’s what you need to know.
Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.
This year, the YJIT team and I have gotten a paper accepted at MPLR 2023 (Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes), which is now freely available through ACM open access. The paper, titled “Evaluating YJIT’s Performance in a Production Context: A Pragmatic Approach”, goes into details of the strategy taken to…
Today Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 8, the latest version of one of the world’s leading programming languages and development platforms.
Our state-of-the-art model delivers 10-day weather predictions at unprecedented accuracy in under one minute
Media over QUIC: Low-latency, high bitrate, mass fan-out is hard. Who knew?
We are proud to announce PyPI's first external security audit.
Explore Backblaze's Q3 2023 hard drive stats, revealing insights on 259,533 HDDs, failure rates, and data center performance for enhanced reliability.
In this blog we discuss how the transformer architecture naturally extends over external memories, and share empirical results which leverage this capability. These methods are innate (don't require fine tuning) and outperform popular retrieval augmented generation methods.
Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in December unless Congress renews it. EFF and others have been working hard to get real reforms into the law and have opposed a renewal, and now, we’re hearing about a rushed attempt to tie renewal to funding...
