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The Contagion of Fear
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The Observation Deck
The contagion of fear
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science to be my life’s calling, I was in the back of the large computer…
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AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
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MIT Technology Review
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.
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Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
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Signal Community
Registration without a phone number
you have legitimate concerns, but you’re very wrong about this. zero-knowledge proofs are not only the technology behind donation badges and backup payments, but also behind groups. they can’t tie you to a specific donation just like they can’t tie you to…
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Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)
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OpenAI
Better language models and their implications
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question…
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The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
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Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster
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TechCrunch
Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board | TechCrunch
Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."
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US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’
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Thetimes
US diplomat ‘secretly flown home had child abuse images at flat’
A row over diplomatic immunity has broken out after the return of the official who was allegedly sent abusive material
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Open-Source AI and Open Models Reading List
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www.interconnects.ai
Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List
How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.
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The case against JPEG XL
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Giannirosato
The case against JPEG XL | Gianni Rosato
Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.
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Show HN: Is It Greg?
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GitHub
GitHub - antoineleclair/is-it-greg
Contribute to antoineleclair/is-it-greg development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Apple's Dimensional Drawings
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Apple Developer
Download dimensional drawings and technical specifications.
Download precise dimensional drawings and technical specifications for Apple devices to ensure your accessory designs meet the exact requirements.
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AI is not a normal technology
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12Gramsofcarbon
AI is not a normal technology
This is an addendum to my original Meditations on AI post, and a response to a few other articles from last year.
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The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
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arXiv.org
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting,...
This report surveys the landscape of potential security threats from malicious uses of AI, and proposes ways to better forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats. After analyzing the ways in...
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Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
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Bbc
Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
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Fortune
Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200 billion market-cap wipeout | Fortune
The sportswear giant will be replaced by a tech company on Sept. 21, capping a five-year, nearly 80% stock slide driven by China weakness.
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Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI?
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Cohere
Who Gets to Define the Rules for AI? | Cohere
Explore why AI regulation should rely on evidence-based standards, independent testing, and diverse voices rather than rules set by a few dominant AI labs.
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Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)
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Honisoit
Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi – Honi Soit
There’s no shortage of dystopian fiction. But instead of rejecting optimistic representation, can we use it to guide us forward?
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Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek"
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Los Angeles Review of Books
Of Gods and Languages: On “When God Spoke Greek” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Kevin Hart reviews Timothy Michael Law’s book about the Septuagint, When God Spoke Greek.
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Chess.com
Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping
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Security Affairs
Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users – Evidence Points to Scraping
7,3 milioni di profili Chess.com esposti online: i dati sono autentici, ma gli indizi indicano scraping massivo, non un attacco ai server.
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Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports
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ScreenSize.net
Viewport Statistics Report
Anonymous aggregate viewport statistics from ScreenSize.net browser sessions, with recent viewport, device pixel ratio and browser distributions.
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OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
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Calif
OEMpocalypse Now: A Generic Exploitation Strategy from Android untrusted app to root
Part 1 of a series that takes an unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo/OnePlus/Realme devices, with a single strategy.
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