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Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals
“For Anthropic, it was part research and part evangelism.”
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This new cheap toothbrush proves you don’t need the $500 Dyson CameraJet for a great clean
Suri’s new Core 1.0 strips the electric toothbrush back to the essentials, adds a pressure sensor and a battery that lasts surprisingly long
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Decision to Pull the Trigger on Meta’s A.I. Agent
Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg’s hand.
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In Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’, the Answer to the Trillionaire’s Power Is Unsatisfying
Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour documentary is deeply researched. But because the mogul has long been in the spotlight, little is new.
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What to Know About the Facebook Whistle-Blowing Case Depicted in ‘The Social Reckoning’
Aaron Sorkin’s sort-of sequel to the 2010 “Social Network” dramatizes a whistle-blowing case at Facebook. Here’s what to know.
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Google Chrome now supports JPEG XL images and animations for improved efficiency
Google has announced that as of version 155, its Chrome web browser now officially supports the JPEG XL format. The key benefit of this newly added support is that the JPEG XL image format can provide up to 50 percent better compressions than the JPEG format. On top of this, JPEG XL can be used for animations, and there is lossless JPEG transcoding to allow for the easy reuse of existing images.
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How to grow a beard: a no-nonsense guide to going from stubble to a full, well-groomed beard
Give patchy growth a chance, keep the itch under control, and tidy up without undoing weeks of progress
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White House targets Stanford, Caltech and tech giants in visa crackdown
The White House is expanding its campaign against international workers, targeting elite study and work visa holders with restrictions and a new investigation.
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Clinical Trial Indicates A.I. Chatbots Could Aid Urgent Care
Nearly 100 patients discussed their maladies with a Google bot, called AMIE, before meeting with physicians.
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An Apple device fans have waited 15 years for could finally land on October 27 – here’s what’s in store
The MacBook Pro OLED with touch could join an iPad mini for the third Apple launch event of the season.
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IPhone Air 2 could match iPhone Duo in a really important way, but is a sequel even necessary?
iPhone Air 2 could match the thickness of the iPhone Duo when laid flat, according to a new rumour.
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Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code
The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.
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Amazon Alexa Tablets are mid-range Android tablets with the Google Play Store & Amazon apps and services
Amazon launched its first Kindle Fire tablet in 2011, and the lineup has changed many times over the years. The company dropped Kindle from the name and sold them as Fire tablets, tried its hand at premium models, and largely settled on the idea of cheap tablets running a fork of Android called Fire OS. […] The post Amazon Alexa Tablets are mid-range Android tablets with the Google Play Store & Amazon apps and services appeared first on Liliputing.
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Mistral opens trillion-parameter Large 4 preview, weights due in October
Mistral AI launched a public preview of Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model, with open weights due by the end of October and API pricing posted.
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Microsoft Teams will soon support third-party deepfake protection
Microsoft will soon boost the security of Teams meetings by introducing support for third-party deepfake protections. The move is part of a drive to help to keep users safe from the problem of AI-generated audio and video in meetings. By allowing the use of third-party solutions, Microsoft is helping to widen the choices available to users and reducing pressure on its own development teams. Microsoft’s plans for Teams have been revealed in an entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap.
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Steam beta now runs non-Steam Windows games on Linux through Proton
Valve's Oct. 7 Steam client beta runs Windows programs added as non-Steam games on Linux through Proton by default and fixes two Browse and Stop button bugs.
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Chrome cuts off unauthorized Google certificates after registry hijacks
Hackers hijacked the .gh, .sl and .as registries to obtain HTTPS certificates for Google domains. Chrome blocked them, and Google urged owners to watch CT logs.
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Microsoft brings local AI agents to Windows and a $2,599 Surface laptop
Microsoft showed Copilot working on local files and models at its Oct. 7 Windows event and priced the new Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599, shipping Oct. 16.
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Canal+ and MPA urge EU to list MovieBox as downloads hit 307.6 million
MovieBox has 307.6 million Palm Store downloads as the MPA and Canal+ flag the pirate app to the EU. Canal+ also links it to Chinese phone maker Transsion.
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Evercade Nexus is a chunky, bold, fun retro gaming handheld, but it’s left me surprisingly conflicted
Blaze’s latest Evercade is its biggest, brashest and, er, ‘bonkersest’ handheld yet – but it might also be its most divisive
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