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Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]
Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you don't like it. "I don't think we should filter out AI content," Mosseri said during an interview on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast. "I think we should let you know […]
A firsthand account shows how isolation and neglect can make incarceration a slow form of death in U.S. prisons.
Likely incoming UK PM hints at policy shifts towards Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. But analysts are wary.
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In 1858, London sweltered through an unbearable heat wave. The River Thames reeked so badly it left people gasping for air. "The Great Stink" went down in history — and ultimately gave London a modern sewer system.
Reform UK's finances draw police scrutiny as Farage fights to reclaim his seat in a by-election.
A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new "distributed AI compute" program that will "place numerous compute nodes in homes […]
The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON. Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware via counterfeit installers using SEO poisoning techniques, it belies their true organizational
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Sudan’s El Obeid faces intensifying RSF drone attacks
I love it when a company challenges itself to make a cheaper version of a beloved product. Xreal's $299 A01 Plus is a stripped-down version of its $449 1S that's light on features but with just enough of the 1S' best qualities. These AR glasses are comfortable, they look good, and the screens are surprisingly […]
Smart Tiered Cache allows for precise upper tier selection for origins hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with customer-provided cloud region hints.
Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator, was sentenced to 70 months for helping the BlackCat/Alphv group. The post Third US Security Expert Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Vietnam has joined Southeast Asia's push to raise birth rates, but experts say the greater challenge lies in adapting economies and welfare systems to an aging population.
The UK is considering intervening in the Paramount-Warner merger over concerns about media plurality.
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The man's wife held onto his legs for around five minutes to stop him from being sucked out, officials say.
First Palestinian legislative elections in 20 years announced
OpenAI is killing its AI browser Atlas less than eight months after launch. Its features are moving into ChatGPT's updated Chrome extension, which will let users run ChatGPT directly in Chrome's sidebar. Atlas joins a growing list of scrapped OpenAI products. The article OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT appeared first on The Decoder .
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the Federal Reserve on AI's economic impact. Warsh views AI as a "significant disinflationary force," but Andreessen's firm Andreessen Horowitz is heavily invested in AI companies, raising conflict-of-interest questions. The article The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation appeared first on The Decoder .
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Regulators say features such as infinite scroll contribute to "compulsive use" and "unhealthy habits".