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Tuesday January 28, 2025. 12:40 AM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents. The feature lets...
Facebook has banned posts mentioning Linux-related topics, with the popular Linux news and discussion site, DistroWatch, at the center of the controversy. Tom's Hardware reports: A post on the site claims, 'Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and...
Monday January 27, 2025. 11:20 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: TechCrunch gathered data from several sources and found similar trends. In 2024, 966 startups shut down, compared to 769 in 2023, according to Carta. That's a 25.6% increase. One note on methodology: Those numbers are for...
Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more people in Europe by the end of the century, a study has found, with the lives lost to stronger heat projected to outnumber those saved from milder cold. From a report: The researchers estimated an extra 8,000 people would die each...
Google has open-sourced the PebbleOS, with the original founder, Eric Migicovsky, starting a company to continue where he left off in 2016. 'This is part of an effort from Google to help and support the volunteers who have come together to maintain functionality for Pebble...
Microsoft has launched an open-source document database platform built on PostgreSQL, partnering with FerretDB as a front-end interface. The solution includes two PostgreSQL extensions: pg_documentdb_core for BSON optimization and pg_documentdb_api for data operations....
Nvidia has responded to the market panic over Chinese AI group DeepSeek, arguing that the startup's breakthrough still requires 'significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs' for its operation. The US chipmaker, which saw more than $600 billion wiped from its market value on Monday,...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched Janus Pro, a new family of open-source multimodal models that it claims outperforms OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion's offering on key benchmarks. The models, ranging from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters, are available on...
Meta's AI chatbot will now use personal data from users' Facebook and Instagram accounts for personalized responses in the United States and Canada, the company said in a blog post. The upgraded Meta AI can remember user preferences from previous conversations across...
Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that 'we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,' despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump's inauguration earlier this month. From a report: 'They can either respect America's constitutional ...
Meta has set up four war rooms to analyze DeepSeek's technology, including two focusing on how High-Flyer reduced training costs, and one on what data High-Flyer may have used, The Information's Kalley Huang and Stephanie Palazzolo report. China's DeepSeek is a...
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said Monday it had degraded the service, only accepting registration of new users with China-code phones numbers, amid a 'large-scale malicious attack.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
A growing number of doctors are advocating to rename low-grade prostate cancer to reduce unnecessary aggressive treatments that can lead to debilitating side effects. About one-quarter of men diagnosed with prostate cancer have the lowest-risk form, yet studies show 40% opt...
AmiMoJo shares a report: Two hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, in the latest landmark in the campaign to reinvent Britain's working week. Together the companies employ more than 5,000...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is challenging U.S. tech giants with claims it can deliver performance comparable to leading AI models at a fraction of the cost, sparking debate among Wall Street analysts about the industry's massive spending plans. While Jefferies warns that...
In Friday's excerpt from Bill Gates' upcoming memoir, the Microsoft co-founder acknowledges that 'It's impossible to overstate the unearned privilege I enjoyed. To be born in the rich U.S. is a big part of a winning birth-lottery ticket... Add to that my lucky timing...' The ...
The EFF has complained that in general 'smart' products for babies 'collect a ton of information about you and your baby on an ongoing basis'. (For this year's 'worst in privacy' product at CES they chose a $1,200 baby bassinet equipped with a camera, a microphone, and a...
'Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly,' reports the Associated Press, 'avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a...
At December's 'Microsoft Excel World Championship' in Las Vegas, 'finance professionals fluent in spreadsheets were treated like minor celebrities,' writes the New York Times, 'as they gathered to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an audience of about 400...
'An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday,' reports the Financial Times, 'in at least the fourth episode of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea that has caused concern in Nato about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure...'...
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