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Friday August 16, 2024. 12:00 PM
Agentic RAG is getting a lot of attention these days as a practical way to reduce — or, depending on the audacity of the vendor, eliminate — hallucinations from generative AI (genAI) tools. Sadly, it might not decrease hallucinations — but it could open the door to...
“Sal awakens; she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock, alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked ‘coffee?’ and she mumbled ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ and ‘no’ are the only words it knows.” Then, the alarm clock tells the...
Pixel phones are filled with efficiency-enhancing Google intelligence, and one area that’s all too easy to overlook is the way the devices can improve the act of actually talking on your cellular telephone. That’s true for any Pixel model, no matter how old it may be,...
As the excitement about the immense potential of large language models (LLMs) dies down, now comes the hard work of ironing out the things they don’t do well. The word “hallucination” is the most obvious example, but at least output that is crazily fictitious stands ...
Thursday August 15, 2024. 07:24 PM
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have opted to not just discuss all of the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can go wrong, but to create what they described in an abstract released Wednesday as “a living database” of 777 risks...
Jamf has removed yet another brick in the wall put up by Windows-centric IT staffers to fend off acceptance Macs in the enterprise, revealing a new partnership with Microsoft that simplifies management of both Windows and Apple devices using Microsoft Azure. The arrangement ...
For almost as long as it has existed, Google has been at the center of controversies around its data strategy, ranging from privacy concerns, data retention with its related cybersecurity implications, and compliance, to the debate about what kind of limits there should be...
Microsoft’s facial matching verification system, Face Check, is now available. The feature, part of Entra Verified ID, offers a new way to confirm a user’s identity and protect against unauthorized login attempts, Microsoft said. Face Check works by comparing selfie...
Hollywood actors’ union SAG-AFTRA said it has signed an agreement with talent marketplace Narrativ to let advertisers buy the rights from actors to recreate their voices using AI. According to Reuters, the agreement allows the actors themselves to set the price for the...
After the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Austrian advocacy group NOYB has now filed a complaint against the social media platform X, accusing it of using personal data to train its AI systems without consent. In a statement, NOYB said it has lodged GDPR complaints...
It’s long been possible to encrypt the contents of a Windows PC using the included BitLocker encryption tool. Beginning this fall, with the newest update of Windows 11 (version 24H2), the encryption will be activated by default during re- or new installations, according...
If there were any ounce of doubt remaining, I think we can safely set it aside now and say that Google’s all in on AI. And, let’s be honest: That’s probably putting it mildly. At its earlier-than-usual Made by Google Pixel launch gala this week, El Googabond made it...
Wednesday August 14, 2024. 03:44 PM
The battle between privacy and convenience in artificial intelligence (AI) has truly begun, as Google introduces its own Pixel take on AI smartphones, making a subtle (and unwise) indirect dig at Apple for being open to working with others. Because open beats closed, right? ...
A group of visual artists has scored a significant victory in their legal battle against AI image generators. A California federal judge has ruled that visual artists can continue to pursue some of their copyright claims against AI companies Stability AI, Midjourney,...
Microsoft plans to begin archiving unlicensed OneDrive user accounts after 90 days beginning Jan. 27, 2025 — with a fee required for account storage and re-activation. There are different reasons why businesses might have unlicensed OneDrive accounts, Microsoft said in...
Microsoft fixed 88 vulnerabilities on Tuesday as part of its monthly patching cycle. Six of those flaws were already being actively exploited in the wild before a patch was available and another four were publicly disclosed, putting the total number of zero-day...
The massive worldwide Windows outage caused by a disastrous update from the security company CrowdStrike made clear again just how reliant the world is on technologies few people understand — seemingly even the companies in charge of them. The incident is a case study in ...
Modern-day websites aren’t usually built for printing. Whether you want to print a web page on paper, save it as a PDF, or capture a clean screenshot for archival purposes, it’s often harder than it should be. Plus, so much junk — advertisements, pop-ups, navigation...
Tuesday August 13, 2024. 09:20 PM
Microsoft introduced Windows 365 three years ago, a service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers. Rather than provide only the operating system or the OS and bits of other software — notably productivity...
Notion users can now create charts to display data held in the productivity app, providing a new way to visualize information such as project status. Notion Charts, available to paid users as of Tuesday, includes options for bar, donut, and line charts. These are...
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