Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz
One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It's being made in secret.
Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week, addressing a longstanding wish list item; Adam Mosseri confirmed testing the web app
Meta Platforms plans to launch a web version of microblogging app Threads early this week, the biggest new feature to be introduced …
Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter's native shortening service are broken too
Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.
NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, less than two years after raising a $50M Series A, and tells owners to move NFT metadata to the IPFS
- NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round.
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and others detail his growing international power, childhood, career, politics, role in the Ukraine war, and more
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
YouTube is working with Universal Music Group to explore the use of music in AI programs and ways to pay artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content
YouTube has recruited Frank Sinatra's estate and other Universal Music Group UMG .39%increase; green up pointing triangle acts …
A notice from Maine's AG says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing”
- Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt
John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and was the company's CEO until 2000 and CTO until retiring in 2001, died on August 19 at age 82
he was 82 Jim Harrington / Mercury News : Adobe co-founder John Warnock, a giant in the tech world, dies at 82 International Business Times : Who Was John Warnock; Co-Founder Of Adobe Passes Away At 8...
PeckShield: a wallet tied to the ~$600M Binance Coin hack in October 2022 had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol, after using BNB as collateral
Cryptocurrencies' sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack.
Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more
The US announces a ~$667M fourth round of rural broadband infrastructure grants and loans for 37 new projects after setting aside $771.4M in April and June 2023
The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants …
Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are among the candidates expected to launch IPOs by 2024, as Arm's upcoming IPO is set to gauge investors' sentiment
Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation
A look at Music: Not Impossible's haptic suit, consisting of a backpack and ankle and wrist bands, which lets people feel music as vibrations on their bodies
which are translated as pulses to the ribs — can tickle!) https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Sarah Bahr / @smbahr14 : On my first Sunday @NYTStyles cover today! Wearable backpacks that allow people t...
A recent paper on ChatGPT's political biases seems to have many flaws, including testing an older model and prompt types, but the broader topic merits research
A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research. — Previous research has shown … Mastodon: @randomwalker@mastodon.social . X: @random_walker , @cbarrie , @simonw , @e...
Windows file archiver utility maker WinRAR fixes a vulnerability that could let an attacker remotely execute arbitrary code, after a researcher flagged the flaw
A look at the potential impact of the EU DSA and DMA on Big Tech; some say the effect could be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks
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BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinning up to three profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding at ~20M DAUs
BeReal is trying to be real. And if we're being real, what's the point of that Discovery feed, anyway?
Some clinicians think unrealistic depictions of dissociative identity disorder on TikTok are influencing young people to self-diagnose or imitate the disorder
“It might seem like six different alters are all talking in the video — but many people film for three weeks and then put it together,” they say. … X: @verge : TikTok's dissociative identity disorder ...
Pinterest unveils new safety features; users ages 16 and older will now be able to opt into either a private or public profile; private is default for under 16
Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service.
Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other executives on AI, investment in AI over the past decade, Office Copilots, Bing, and more
“In general, I get excited by new things,” says the CEO. The story of a transformative moment that's been a decade in the making. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@sfba.social . X: @mikehofman and @harrymccr...
How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors used generative AI to write without disclosure
LG Gram Style (2023) review: 120Hz OLED, bold color-changing body, and lightweight, but limited power, poor thermal management and trackpad, and bendy chassis
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A look at online trading scams that have cost European consumers billions, perpetrated by fraudsters in highly professional call centers dubbed “boiler rooms”
As Big Tech companies compel employees to return to the office, Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, Twilio, and others remain steadfast backers of remote work
Q&A with TikTok Head of Music Ole Obermann on launching TikTok Music in Indonesia and Brazil before the US and helping artists from discovery to distribution
Analysis: daily trading volumes surge on Coinbase International, an offshore derivatives exchange Coinbase launched in May 2023, reaching $287M on August 18
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.