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Sunday August 24, 2025. 01:11 PM
Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC Hands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might...
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.
Digital Rights Management software makes it difficult to copy movies, music, ebooks, and games that you already own. There are ways around it, but breaking DRM opens up legal and ethical concerns.
This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.
For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it feature Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.…
The Atlantic reports some YouTube users noticed their uploaded videos have since 'been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything...' 'For creators who want to differentiate themselves from the new synthetic content, YouTube seems...
'Google has confirmed that its Battery Health Assistance feature can't be turned off on the Pixel 10 phones,' reports Android Authority: Google introduced a Battery Health Assistance feature on the Pixel 9a earlier this year. This feature gradually drops your phone's...
'Solar and wind accounted for almost 91% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in the first five months of 2025...' reports Electrek, citing new data from America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 'Solar has now been the largest source of new generating...
In March 2025, Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun but lasting only milliseconds.
The U.S. government's 10% stake in Intel 'is a mistake,' writes the Washington Post's editorial board, calling Intel 'an aging also-ran in critical markets' that 'has spent recent years stumbling on execution and missing one strategic opportunity after another.' But...
Saturday August 23, 2025. 11:34 PM
Last weekend New Zealand experienced an hour-long air traffic control failure that disrupted flights, leaving five plans circling and four others unable to take off, according to Radio New Zealand. The country's sole air traffic service provider, Airways, now says it was...
'Only a tiny fraction of the more than 7,000 languages on Earth are supported by artificial intelligence models,' reported SiliconANGLE this week. So Nvidia announced 'a massive new AI-ready dataset and models to support the development of high-quality AI translation for...
'James Cameron has a confession: he can't write Terminator 7...' according to the Guardian, 'because reality keeps nicking his plotlines.' 'I'm at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science-fiction,' Cameron told CNN this week. 'I'm tasked with writing a new...
Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users. But who are these people who are actually using Threads, asks Mashable? And what is their cultural footprint? Threads is the Big Bang Theory of social media. Bland, boring, largely unoffensive, and somehow, it was...
The Free Software Foundation announced a special photography contest honoring its 40th anniversary: The technology we use every day has changed dramatically since our founding nearly forty years ago, including the way we interact with it... We're incredibly grateful for the...
'Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet on the community-driven Arch Linux distro,' reports the Register, with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that apparently started a week ago. Arch maintainer Cristian Heusel announced Thursday on the project's web...
The Washington Post looks at the rise of low-effort, high-volume 'AI slop' videos: The major social media platforms, scared of driving viewers away, have tried to crack down on slop accounts, using AI tools of their own to detect and flag videos they believe were...
British telecommunications service provider Colt Telecom 'has offices in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, reports CPO magazine. 'It manages nearly 1,000 data centers and roughly 75,000 km of fiber infrastructure.' But now 'a cyber attack has caused...
British telecommunications service provider Colt Telecom 'has offices in over 30 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, reports CPO magazine. 'It manages nearly 1,000 data centers and roughly 75,000 km of fiber infrastructure.' But now 'a cyber attack has caused...
Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving those answers through a...
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