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Apple's upgraded AI models underwhelm on performance | TechCrunch
Apple's upgraded AI models underwhelm on performance | TechCrunch
Apple has announced updates to the AI models that power its suite of Apple Intelligence features across iOS, macOS, and more. But according to the company's own benchmarks, the models underperform older models from rival tech firms including OpenAI.
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·techcrunch.com·
Apple's upgraded AI models underwhelm on performance | TechCrunch
Indistinguishable from a FSB honeypot
Indistinguishable from a FSB honeypot
Researchers at IStories looking into Telegram's encryption protocol have found that MTproto2 sends a long-term device identifier in clear text along with evidence that the servers are hosted in a...
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·metafilter.com·
Indistinguishable from a FSB honeypot
Gabbard Says AI is Speeding Up Intel Work, Including the Release of the JFK Assassination Files - Slashdot
Gabbard Says AI is Speeding Up Intel Work, Including the Release of the JFK Assassination Files - Slashdot
AI is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. From a report: Speaking to a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and...
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·news.slashdot.org·
Gabbard Says AI is Speeding Up Intel Work, Including the Release of the JFK Assassination Files - Slashdot
Chick sexers? Seriously, bald guy?
Chick sexers? Seriously, bald guy?
Meta devised an ingenious system (localhost tracking) that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s...
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·metafilter.com·
Chick sexers? Seriously, bald guy?
AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse
AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse
Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what’s real and what’s not—and getting inaccurate information.
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·wired.com·
AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse
Ohio University Says All Students Will Be Required To Train and 'Be Fluent' In AI - Slashdot
Ohio University Says All Students Will Be Required To Train and 'Be Fluent' In AI - Slashdot
Ohio State University is launching a campus-wide AI fluency initiative requiring all students to integrate AI into their studies, aiming to make them proficient in both their major and the responsible use of AI. "Ohio State has an opportunity and responsibility to prepare students to not just keep u...
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·news.slashdot.org·
Ohio University Says All Students Will Be Required To Train and 'Be Fluent' In AI - Slashdot
The iPad Is a Full-On Computer Now
The iPad Is a Full-On Computer Now
After 15 years, the iPad is getting some key software features—like the addition of resizable and movable windows—that help it realize its true destiny.
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·wired.com·
The iPad Is a Full-On Computer Now
Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch
Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin delayed the second launch of its premier rocket New Glenn from late spring to August 15, showing the difficulty in building an alternative to Elon Musk’s SpaceX as questions swirl in Washington about the government’s reliance on the mercurial billionaire. “One of our key mission objectives will be to land and recover the booster,” CEO Dave Limp wrote
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·theinformation.com·
Blue Origin Delays Second New Glenn Launch
macOS Tahoe is the end of the line for Intel Macs
macOS Tahoe is the end of the line for Intel Macs
The newly unveiled macOS 26 will be the last version of macOS to support computers running on Intel processors instead of Apple Silicon.
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·engadget.com·
macOS Tahoe is the end of the line for Intel Macs
Camera Remote and Higher-Quality Audio Recording Coming to AirPods This Fall
Camera Remote and Higher-Quality Audio Recording Coming to AirPods This Fall
While most of the new features announced at WWDC today are coming to Apple’s major OSes, the AirPods weren’t completely left out of the fun. Today, Apple revealed a couple of enhancements coming to the AirPods line this fall. [aside pre_title=”Supported By” title=”Longplay” align=”center” width=”narrow”] Longplay: The home for your albums. Now on iOS, coming
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·macstories.net·
Camera Remote and Higher-Quality Audio Recording Coming to AirPods This Fall
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists
Exclusive: Following 404 Media’s investigation into Meta's AI Studio chatbots that pose as therapists and provided license numbers and credentials, four senators urged Meta to limit "blatant deception" from its chatbots.
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·404media.co·
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists
Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
Bill had added new code to QuickDraw (which was still called LisaGraf at this point) to draw circles and ovals very quickly. That was a bit hard to do on the Macintosh, since the math for circles usually involved taking square roots, and the 68000 processor in the Lisa and Macintosh didn't support floating point operations. But Bill had come up with a clever way to do the circle calculation that only used addition and subtraction, not even multiplication or division, which the 68000 could do, but was kind of slow at.
Bill had added new code to QuickDraw (which was still called LisaGraf at this point) to draw circles and ovals very quickly. That was a bit hard to do on the Macintosh, since the math for circles usually involved taking square roots, and the 68000 processor in the Lisa and Macintosh didn't support floating point operations. But Bill had come up with a clever way to do the circle calculation that only used addition and subtraction, not even multiplication or division, which the 68000 could do, but was kind of slow at.
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·folklore.org·
Folklore.org: Round Rects Are Everywhere!
Folklore.org: Joining Apple Computer
Folklore.org: Joining Apple Computer
To handle overlapping windows and graphics clipping, I wrote the original Lisa Window Manager. I also wrote the Lisa Event Manager and Menu Manager, and invented the pull-down menu. Andy Hertzfeld adapted these for use on the Mac, and with these and QuickDraw, my code accounted for almost two thirds of the original Macintosh ROM.
To handle overlapping windows and graphics clipping, I wrote the original Lisa Window Manager. I also wrote the Lisa Event Manager and Menu Manager, and invented the pull-down menu. Andy Hertzfeld adapted these for use on the Mac, and with these and QuickDraw, my code accounted for almost two thirds of the original Macintosh ROM.
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·folklore.org·
Folklore.org: Joining Apple Computer