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Thursday January 30, 2025. 11:19 PM
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has accused its Chinese competitor, DeepSeek, of using its work to develop rival AI models at a significantly lower cost. The claims, first reported by Bloomberg and BBC, suggest that DeepSeek may have engaged in “knowledge distillation,”...
On Monday, a new generative AI app called DeepSeek became available for download in the United States. The Chinese-created app quickly became the most downloaded free app in the US. Its quick spike in popularity has promoted concerns about data security as well as questions...
A French government-backed AI chatbot named Lucie has been pulled offline just days after its release, following a wave of criticism over its inaccurate and nonsensical responses. Developed as part of a consortium that includes the Linagora Group, Lucie was intended to...
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business for one PC or Mac at $159.97 through February 2 (reg. $249.99). Microsoft just raised the price of its beloved 365 software suite for the first time in over a decade… and yikes. — Read the rest The post Fed up with the...
The Deepseek-R1 model has managed to attract a lot of attention in a short time, especially because it can be used commercially without restrictions. Now, developers at Hugging Face are trying to reconstruct the generative AI (genAI) model from scratch and develop an...
Pokemon cards from a set purportedly produced to playtest the game in the 1990s have distinctive patterns of dots added by modern printers. The dots come in various patterns (such as the famed Eurion Constellation) and may identify specific models of printer and include...
The NYPD has warned about the latest scam in New York City. The scammers are taking advantage of victims' generosity, stealing tens of thousands of dollars from kind-hearted targets and netting over $76,000 last year in Brooklyn and Manhattan. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE...
While the path toward the ability to write device drivers in Rust has been anything but smooth, steady progress has been made and that goal is close to being achieved — for some types of drivers at least. Device drivers need to be able to set up memory areas for direct...
Who said dogs were man's best friend? While Japan is hardly the bizarre, whimsical wonderland some may expect looking at it from the outside, there's still plenty of room for wonder in daily life. Case in point: Bon-chan, a Tokyo-dwelling giant tortoise making the social...
A racist, bigoted MAGA fearlessly shared her ugly views on the internet, so the internet taught her a lesson. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! April Martinson's racist commentary is so disgusting it caused problems for former employers. —...
Ships can turn quickly into expensive problems, and their owners are abandoning them in record numbers. This sometimes means sailors are stuck aboard, unable to leave without forfeiting years of pay—and that's just those who can leave in the first place. — Read the rest ...
Earlier this week, we learned about Apple’s decision to appoint Kim Vorrath, the vice president of the company’s Technology Development Group (TDG), to help build Apple Intelligence under the supervision of John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for machine...
Three members of an American family were picked up and hauled to a detention center in Milwaukee — all because they were heard speaking Spanish. The elderly woman, along with her daughter and baby grandson — who wish to remain anonymous out of fear — were shopping at...
What is artificial general intelligence (AGI), and why does it matter? As one of the most talked-about topics in technology today, it has sparked a race among top companies like OpenAI and Google to turn this cutting-edge concept into reality. Understanding AGI is important...
Fortnite OG is updating tomorrow, January 31st, to the OG Chapter One, Season Two map. I'm landing Pawn Shop. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The sweats are gonna love the next month of Fortnite OG. — Read the rest The post Fortnite OG:...
Senator Warren has asked about conflicts of interest, while Senator Sanders can't get RFK jr to say he agrees with widely accepted facts about vaccines, and those are just a few highlights. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest The po...
Visitors to the freedesktop.org GitLab instance are currently being greeted with a message noting that the company who has been hosting it for free for nearly five years, Equinix, has asked that it be moved (or start being paid for) by the end of April. The issue ticket...
If the term 'prompt engineer' made you roll your eyes, 'prompt artist' could blind you for life. The U.S. Copyright Office agrees: it has determined that the output of AI is not protected by copyright unless there is sufficient human control over the expressive elements. —...
Until the late 1990s, manufacturing reigned as the lifeblood of the global economy -- leading in productivity, employment, growth, and investments across all points of the world. However, once we neared the close of the 20th century, manufacturing found its Achilles heel in...
So far, we've learned the Trump Administration is willy-nilly abducting people based on skin color, and the cost of deporting people Trump-style is far higher than you'd think. American citizens are being whisked away and forced to prove their right to stay in their home...
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