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Investigators are getting better at cracking the hackers

British political controversy

Sustainable dried SCOBY mats are lighter, cheaper, and more flexible than plastics.

Encoder for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models

Experts regard ChatGPT-3 and Google’s LaMDA as equally unimpressive examples of so-called AI. Investors don't seem to understand this

Gluon is a new high-performance IMAP library that is open source, RFC compliant, and actively maintained and improved by the Proton Mail team.

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson gently criticized cryptocurrency in games in his DICE 2023 keynote.

His original books will now be printed unaltered, after the decision to update them was criticised.

Fine abstract art. Guaranteed to be painted with no particular artistic intent.

Workers are getting fired on the basis of metrics that don’t make any sense.

Checkmarx researchers observed a sudden surge of over 15,000 phishing packages flooding NPM, the world's largest free software registry, for a few hours on Feb. 20 and 21.

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If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

Today, we’re releasing our LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) foundational model with a gated release. LLaMA is more efficient and competitive with previously published models of a similar size on existing benchmarks.

Nature - In a superconducting quantum processor, error suppression improved as the system size was increased.

Telecom equipment maker Ericsson will lay off 8,500 employees globally as part of its plan to cut costs, a memo sent to employees and seen by Reuters said.

I was impressed by most of this article in Curbed [https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.curbed.com%2F2023%2F01%2Fnyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html], which did some actual reporting on the discrepancy between landlords saying rents…

Corn-based ethanol, which for years has been mixed in huge quantities into gasoline sold at U.S. pumps, is likely a much bigger contributor to global warming than straight gasoline, according to a study published Monday.