Nintendo Switch Tips (2023): 21 Surprising Things It Can Do (OLED, Lite, Standard)
Did you just get one of Nintendo’s three Switch consoles? Here are some of their best (and most secret) abilities!
The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
Newly announced sanctions against Iran-based Avaran Cloud underscore the complexity of crafting Washington’s internet freedom efforts.
Welcome to the augmented future. Watch it bring you to your knees
Tech pioneer warns that despite the benefits of an augmented future, adding generative AI makes the potential for abuse inescapable.Read More
New method improves efficiency of ‘vision transformer’ AI systems
Vision transformers (ViTs) are powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can identify or categorize objects in images — however, there are significant challenges related to both computing power requirements and decision-making transparency. Researchers have now developed a new methodology that addresses both challenges, while also improving the ViT’s ability to identify, classify and segment objects …
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OpenAI executive appears to have Twitter account hacked to promote cryptocurrency scam
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati appeared to have her Twitter account hacked on Thursday evening to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.Read More
Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
On the same day, Russia’s FSB intelligence service launched wild claims of NSA and Apple hacking thousands of Russians.
Scientists design artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing
The human brain has been called the most complicated object in the universe. Trying to replicate that still-unmatched capability for computing, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have made a new interface-type memristive device, which their results suggest can be used to build artificial synapses for next-generation neuromorphic computing.
FTC fines Amazon $25M for violating children’s privacy with Alexa
FTC Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya also took the opportunity to tweet out a direct cautionary note to the fast-growing AI industry…Read More
Amazon Workers Walk Out Over Layoffs and Broken Climate Promises
Malaise swept through the company after massive job cuts, mandatory return to the office, and surging emissions despite the company’s pledge to get greener.
Assessing political bias in language models
The language models behind ChatGPT and other generative AI are trained on written words that have been culled from libraries, scraped from websites and social media, and pulled from news reports and speech transcripts from across the world. There are 250 billion such words behind GPT-3.5, the model fueling ChatGPT, for instance, and GPT-4 is …