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MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown ex...
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Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
We’re developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. In an evaluation involving both biology experts and students, we found that GPT-4 provides at most a mild uplift in biological threat creation accuracy. While this uplift is not…
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Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
We had interviewees use ChatGPT without their interviewer knowing. Here's what happened.
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LLaVA-1.6: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge
LLaVA team presents LLaVA-1.6, with improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge. LLaVA-1.6 even exceeds Gemini Pro on several benchmarks.
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Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs
We recently released a new differential testing tool, called DIFFER, for finding bugs and soundness violations in transformed programs. DIFFER combines elements from differential, regression, and fuzz testing to help users find bugs in programs that have been altered by software rewriting, debloating, and hardening…
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RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
RavenDB is a distributed document database which repeatedly advertises its support for ACID transactions. 1 It’s intended for OLTP workloads, and offers a variety of ETL paths for exporting data to other systems. Its transactional API revolves around a session handle, which “represents a single business transaction on…
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Macaroons Escalated Quickly
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)
Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? Your suggestions or questions for future posts about Archive-It technology are very welcome here .
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Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs
A historical analysis of what the earliest electrical and great applied R&D labs can teach Answer.AI, and potential pitfalls
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Executing Cron Scripts Reliably at Scale
Cron scripts are responsible for critical Slack functionality. They ensure reminders execute on time, email notifications are sent, and databases are cleaned up, among other things. Over the years, both the number of cron scripts and the amount of data these scripts process have increased. While generally these cron…
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Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
A brand new era for the RWKV-v5 architecture and linear transformer's has arrived - with the strongest multi-lingual model in open source today
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New Renderers for GTK
Recently, GTK gained not one, but two new renderers: one for GL and one for Vulkan. Since naming is hard, we reused existing names and called them “ngl” and “vulkan”. They are built from the same sources, therefore we also call them “unified” renderers. But what is exciting about them? A single source As mentioned...
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Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection
This is an archive of an old whitepaper made by three reverse engineering experts on breaking down SecuROM and its multiple layers of protection. Archive Opening NotesAs mentioned, this is a whitepa
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Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
Liquid metal printing, developed by MIT researchers, rapidly creates 3D metal structures by depositing molten aluminum along into a bed filled with microscopic glass beads. The process can produce low-resolution objects like frames for chairs and tables in minutes.
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
With today's update, we are excited to announce that we have integrated Mixtral 8x7B as the default LLM in Leo, our privacy-preserving AI browser assistant.
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Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal"
ICANN received a total of 32 public comments from across the community on the Proposed Top-Level Domain String for Private Use. Thirteen of these were in support of the proposal. Of the remaining nineteen comments, six believed a shorter string should be selected, one believed a more meaningful string should be…
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The rise of batteries in six charts
The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.
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WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
With the release of WASI Preview 2, we take a step back and look at why it matters for wasmCloud and the WebAssembly ecosystem.
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How the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic background
The brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, according to an MIT study.
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Multi-database support in DuckDB
DuckDB can attach MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite databases in addition to databases stored in its own format. This allows data to be read into DuckDB and moved between these systems in a convenient manner.
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Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
In September 2023, Safari 17.0 on macOS shipped a small but interesting change to the <select> element.
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Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development
Free play is essential for children’s development and for their physical, mental, and social health. Opportunities to engage in outdoor free play—and risky play in particular—have declined significantly in recent years, in part because safety measures have sought to prevent all play-related injuries rather than…
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Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Apple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in the EU to comply with the DMA.
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An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM
Our first Text2SQL model release! | Reading time: 5 min read
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Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead
Today, ESA’s Science Programme Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.
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We build X.509 chains so you don't have to
For the past eight months, Trail of Bits has worked with the Python Cryptographic Authority to build cryptography-x509-verification, a brand-new, pure-Rust implementation of the X.509 path validation algorithm that TLS and other encryption and authentication protocols are built on. Our implementation is fast…
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Ruby on Rails load testing habits
Here are the techniques I've acquired over more than 10 years of regular load testing.
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Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool
EFF has joined forces with 110 NGOs today in a joint statement delivered to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee, clearly outlining civil society non-negotiable redlines for the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, and asserting that states should reject the proposed treaty if these essential changes are...
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Framing Frames: Bypassing wi-fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues
Domien Schepers and Aanjhan Ranganathan, Northeastern University; Mathy Vanhoef, imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven