The reason behind the TikTok ban
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Congressional insiders spill the beans on how the law was passed
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OpenAI tries to ‘uncensor’ ChatGPT
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
OpenAI is changing how it trains AI models to explicitly embrace intellectual freedom no matter how challenging or controversial a topic may be, the company says in a new policy.
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Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died
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FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.
Older AI models show signs of cognitive decline, study shows
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Older chatbots, just like people, show signs of cognitive impairment, failing on several important metrics in a test normally used on human patients.
How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy
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FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Google is allowing advertisers to collect more personal information, which is harder for users to control.
Elon Musk’s ‘Scary Smart’ Grok 3 Release—What You Need To Know
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, is set to launch Grok 3 on Monday, Feb. 17. According to xAI, this latest version of its chatbot, which Musk describes as scary smart, represents a major step forward, improving reasoning, computational power and adaptability.
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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide
Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?
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Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates?
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FEBRUARY 16, 2025
There is a claim circulating, e.g. here on Mastodon: [.] in COBOL, if a date is missing [or "corrupt"] the program defaults to 1875 [.
'AI slop' is flooding the Internet. This is how can you tell if an image is artificially generated
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From odd fingers to weird text, AI generated images always leave tell-tale traces.
Netflix says its brief Apple TV app integration was a mistake
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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing
Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate
In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!
The AI Hype Frenzy Is Fueling Cybersecurity Risks
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The artificial intelligence gold rush has reached a fever pitch. Companies are throwing billionsno, trillionsat AI projects, slapping the "AI-powered" label on everything from email filters to coffee makers.
The AI-Driven VC: A New Era In Investing
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Venture capital has long been characterized as a cottage industry, where well-connected partners rely on their networks and experience to identify promising startups.
Ugandan runner Jacob Kiplimo completes first ever sub-57 minute half marathon
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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder
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Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
Why Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman Is Playing the Long Game on AI
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the worlds top CEOs and decisionmakers, click here.) Matt Garman took the helm at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of the U.S. tech giant, in June, but he joined the business around 19 years ago as an intern.
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
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As AI becomes more human-like, what will happen to humanity?
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Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
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Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world's biggest AI companies
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
There is only so much thinking most of us can do in our heads. Try dividing 16,951 by 67 without reaching for a pen and paper. Or a calculator.
Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they've kept it going
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What happens when the chief maintainer of an open source project dies. Maintaining VIM turned out to be a full time job, though the community has stepped in to help.
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Leonardo has established itself as a significant player in the AI image generation space, joining the ranks of Midjourney and DALL-E.
Javier Milei risks impeachment after endorsing $107M Libra rug pull
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The President of Argentina risks impeachment from the political opposition after the Libra token turned into a $107 million rug pull.
The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report
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Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
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