Microsoft's software giant, Microsoft, was aware of a critical security flaw in its Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) product, which allowed hackers to gain access to sensitive data, but the company chose not to publicly disclose the issue, prioritizing business interests over customer security. The flaw was eventually exploited by Russian hackers in the SolarWinds attack, ...

Abliteration is a technique that uncensors large language models (LLMs) by removing their built-in refusal mechanism, allowing them to respond to all types of prompts. The technique involves identifying the refusal direction within the model and modifying its weights to prevent it from representing this feature, effectively uncensoring the model.

Meta has developed a new audio codec, Meta Low Bitrate (MLow), which provides better audio quality at low bitrates and lower computational complexity than existing codecs. MLow has been launched on Instagram and Messenger and is being rolled out on WhatsApp, with significant improvements in user engagement and audio quality.

Agnikul, an Indian startup, successfully launched a rocket featuring a 3D-printed engine, marking a milestone in "on-demand" launch services for small satellites. The company's innovative approach, which prints the engine in one piece, reduces manufacturing time from months to just 72 hours.

Lisa Su, AMD CEO, revealed her involvement in the development of the PlayStation 3's Cell processor at IBM in 2001. She notes that the ambitious project was successful from a business standpoint, but the console itself was not successful in the market.

Shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions, which can be used to provide persistent sessions when sshing into a remote host. Shpool can be thought of as a lighter weight alternative to tmux or GNU screen, providing persistent sessions without the need for extra software on the client.

Tomás Vega, co-founder and CEO of Augmental, created the MouthPad, a device that allows people with movement impairments to control their devices using tongue and head gestures. The device has helped users with spinal cord injuries, quadriplegia, and other conditions to regain independence and interact with their devices seamlessly.

The 50-year-old petrodollar agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia has expired, potentially disrupting the global financial order and weakening the US dollar. The agreement's expiration could lead to a decline in global demand for the US dollar, resulting in higher inflation, interest rates, and a weaker bond market in the US.

AMD's MI300X accelerator outperforms NVIDIA's H100 in both offline and online AI inference tasks, achieving 33% higher throughput in a real-world chat use case. The MI300X is an attractive option for enterprises running large-scale inference in the cloud, offering impressive performance at a competitive cost.

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 MAX experienced Dutch Roll during flight WN-746 from Phoenix to Oakland, regaining control and landing safely. The aircraft sustained substantial damage and was grounded in Oakland before being moved to Everett, WA, where it remains.

Ikea, facing high employee turnover, implemented changes to boost pay, flexibility, and work-life balance, resulting in a significant reduction in voluntary turnover. The company's efforts to improve employee satisfaction and retention have been notable in a challenging retail industry.

Ted Chiang won the 2024 PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. The award recognizes Chiang's exceptional achievement in the short story form, citing his ability to create unique worlds and evoke profound knowledge in his readers.

The author has been experimenting with combining watercolor painting with code using an AxiDraw plotter, creating unique and varied effects by controlling the plotter's movements and brushstrokes. The author shares their process, including tips and lessons learned, and showcases their results, including typographic pieces and representational paintings.

It is a highly scalable and efficient transformer model trained directly on videos making it capable of generating physically accurate, consistent and eventful shots. Dream Machine is our first step towards building a universal imagination engine and it is available to everyone now!

Arm is trying to eliminate Qualcomm from the Windows market to introduce its own Cortex design, while Qualcomm claims it has a license for custom Arm chips. The legal battle between the two companies may delay the launch of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X-series laptops, which are set to hit shelves on June 18.

Anna's Archive is a unified list of torrents from various sources, including Anna's Archive, Library Genesis, and Sci-Hub, aiming to preserve humanity's knowledge and culture. The list includes various collections, such as books, papers, and magazines, with a total size of over 521.1TB.

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A mother recounts her daughter's struggles with social media addiction, depression, and anxiety, and how she eventually took away her phone to help her daughter recover. The mother reflects on the impact of social media on children and the need for both individual and systemic changes to address the issue.

The author, a sociologist, reflects on the importance of physical encyclopedias in promoting critical thinking and knowledge literacy, particularly in the age of AI-generated content. By using encyclopedias and other reference materials, parents can teach children to evaluate information, identify biases, and develop a critical eye towards online content.

Mark Hamilton and his team created a system called DenseAV that can learn human language from scratch by watching TV and listening to audio, without any human intervention or written language. The system, inspired by how children learn language, can recognize objects and sounds, and has the potential to learn from massive amounts of video and audio data, including languages that don't have a ...

The study presents the first atomic-scale molecular dynamics simulation of the aluminum oxidation process during satellite reentry, estimating the accumulation of reentry byproducts in the mesosphere and their potential impact on ozone depletion. The results suggest that the byproducts may take up to 30 years to settle from the top of the mesosphere into the stratospheric ozone layer.

Retired US Army General Paul M. Nakasone joins OpenAI's Board of Directors, bringing cybersecurity expertise. He will join the Safety and Security Committee, focusing on ensuring AI technology is securely built and deployed.

A security issue in JetBrains GitHub plugin on IntelliJ Platform could expose access tokens. Update to the latest version and revoke GitHub tokens to mitigate the vulnerability, which has been fixed in versions 2023.1 onwards.

Satellites detected anomalies in the ground, atmosphere, and ionosphere up to 19 days before earthquakes, potentially enabling early warning systems. Researchers analyzed satellite data to identify patterns in precursors, paving the way for more accurate earthquake predictions.

This is a changelog for iTerm2, a terminal emulator for macOS. The changelog lists various changes, improvements, and bug fixes made to the software. Here are the main points:

The topic discusses the concept of low-tech electric cars, where customers only want a comfortable ride, a safe journey, and affordability. However, the complexity of electric cars, regulatory approvals, and the need for high-tech features make it challenging to create a low-tech electric car.

Lamini Memory Tuning is a new method that improves factual accuracy in Large Language Models (LLMs) by tuning millions of expert adapters with precise facts, reducing hallucinations to 5% and achieving 95% accuracy in some cases. This approach preserves the LLM's ability to generalize and produce fluent prose, making it a game-changing capability for Fortune 500 companies and other organizations.

The author argues that using notebooks for development is bad because it encourages laziness, bad practices, and makes it difficult to maintain and collaborate on code. Notebooks also make it easy to ignore testing and optimization, leading to inefficient and unreliable code.

Juvenile male dolphins that engage in social play and practice adult-like behaviors together are more likely to father more offspring as adults. The study found that the time spent playing together predicts reproductive success in male bottlenose dolphins.

Cities: Skylines 2 is updating its economy system to address the issue of high rent, introducing a new formula for calculating rent and removing the "virtual landlord" to evenly split building upkeep among renters. The update aims to make rent more affordable for in-game citizens, mirroring real-life solutions such as zoning more affordable housing and providing jobs to help citizens pay their rent.

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Postgres 17 introduces streaming and vectored I/O, allowing for larger I/O requests and improving performance in certain cases, such as sequential scans and ANALYZE operations. The changes also lay the groundwork for future asynchronous I/O work in Postgres 18.

Grassroots technology, known as the "network tree," was used to provide connectivity to Palestinians in Gaza despite severe internet disruptions caused by war. The innovative solution, which utilized humble elements like buckets and smartphones, helped maintain critical social bonds and resist cultural genocide in the face of global double standards.

Germany's automakers produced 1.27 million BEVs and PHEVs in 2023, ranking second behind China, but 2024 outlook is uncertain due to government subsidy program cancellation and supply chain complexities. German automakers face challenges in software development, supply chain management, and battery technology development, but are boosting battery production capabilities to secure a stable supply chain.

The user reflects on their 20-year career in tech, noting a decline in "super engagement" and a shift away from the traditional US workaholic culture. They attribute this change to the pandemic, remote work, and the realization that corporations prioritize profits over employee well-being, leading to burnout and disengagement.

The paper presents Recap-DataComp-1B, a large-scale dataset of recaptioned images from DataComp-1B, enhancing model training in vision-language tasks. The dataset shows improved performance in zero-shot cross-modal retrieval and text-to-image generation tasks.

React will continue rendering the siblings of a suspended component, but this behavior is being disabled to improve performance and allow for better handling of loading states. The original behavior was intended to initiate lazy fetches, but it's now considered a bad idea and will be re-enabled in the future when resumable context stacks are implemented.

The CEO announces a 30% reduction in team size, resulting in the departure of many talented team members. The CEO shares this "hard and sad news" in an email to the VRChat team.

A developer with 20 years of experience is struggling to find a new job due to decreased demand and increased competition, particularly for older employees. The user attributes this to a combination of factors, including the AI boom, high interest rates, and a shift towards outsourcing and remote work.

Canada's CRTC plans to impose a 5% tax on streaming services like Netflix and Spotify to fund Canadian broadcasting, aiming to drive $200 million annually for local news and public interest content. The tax has been met with resistance from streaming giants, who claim it will exacerbate an "affordability crisis" and will likely pass the cost on to users.

Zed, a text editor, has a Vim mode that allows users to switch between Vim and Zed modes seamlessly, with many Vim features and keybindings supported. The Vim mode is implemented within Zed's foundation, allowing users to leverage Zed's features and functionality while still using Vim-like editing.

Wu-Tang Clan's album "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" is being sold online for $1, with proceeds funding the release of the full album. The album was originally sold to Martin Shkreli for $2 million and was not supposed to be released until 2103.

The rise of anxiety disorders among young people is attributed to various factors, including the decline of "play-based childhood", the rise of smartphones, and the erosion of public institutions for children. The crisis is also linked to economic insecurity, with mental health diagnoses strongly correlated with the economic security of parents, and the decline of public services and ...

NASA's Starliner spacecraft has developed more leaks in its service module, including five helium leaks, but the agency is confident in its ability to return the astronauts to Earth. The spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station no earlier than June 18, with NASA evaluating its ability to return the crew safely.

The uncanny valley phenomenon is not caused by a deviation from expected human appearance or behavior, but rather by the absence of what is desired or preferred, which triggers discomfort and unease. The mind detects differences by focusing on the absence of what is desired, and the uncanny valley is part of a larger system of learning how to respond to the world and what to expect from it.

Pathway is a Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, and LLM pipelines, offering a scalable Rust engine, connectors to various data sources, and support for batch and streaming data processing. It provides a Python API for seamless integration with favorite Python ML libraries and offers a range of features, including persistence, consistency, and scalability.

The paramount.toml file configures input and output parameters for the chat list in the LLM. It sets up the UI and API endpoints, database connection, and chat structure for displaying conversation history.

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Semantic search uses ideas instead of words, making it a significant improvement over traditional full-text search, but it still has limitations in domains that require transparency and reproducibility. To address these limitations, researchers have developed methods like SPLADE and Automated Comprehensive Search that combine language models with traditional search techniques to provide more ...

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Apple and OpenAI partnered to integrate ChatGPT into Apple devices, with Apple not paying OpenAI and instead benefiting from promoting OpenAI's brand and technology. The partnership aims to offer advanced chatbots to consumers, potentially increasing user engagement and revenue through subscription plans and revenue-sharing agreements.

The study surveyed 470 US psychology professors on their beliefs and attitudes towards controversial research conclusions and academic freedom. The results showed that professors hold diverse beliefs, with some supporting the suppression of research they deem harmful, while others advocate for academic freedom.

Amazon owns a significant portion of the IPv4 address space, with over 6.3 billion dollars in annual revenue from public IPv4 addresses, and the company's ownership of IP addresses is a significant contributor to its overall IP address ownership. The top 10 organizations owning the largest number of IP addresses include Amazon, Microsoft, and other telecom providers, with the DoD being an ...

Russia's central bank announced the yuan will replace the dollar and euro as the main foreign currency, citing US sanctions. The yuan has been the main currency traded on the Russian stock exchange for two years, with a 54% share.

R&D teams can be categorized into four types: Scout, Library, Spy, and Research teams, each with distinct goals and outcomes. Each team's success depends on aligning its activities with intended goals, and companies may have multiple teams operating independently towards different ends.

Sakana AI is pioneering a new approach to AI development by combining the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) with evolutionary algorithms to automate the discovery of preference optimization algorithms. The company has developed a method called Discovered Preference Optimization (DiscoPOP) that achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple held-out evaluation tasks, outperforming ...

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The Supreme Court upheld access to a widely available abortion pill, rejecting a bid from anti-abortion groups to unravel FDA approval. The court held that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the FDA's actions, citing conscience protections for doctors who oppose abortion.

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The article discusses the long-term effects of COVID-19, including organ damage, immune dysregulation, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and neurodegenerative disorders. The authors highlight the importance of understanding the long-term consequences of COVID-19 to develop effective prevention and treatment strategies.

Researchers at Concordia University developed micro photosynthetic power cells that generate electricity from algae, capturing electrons produced during photosynthesis and producing clean energy while absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The cells are eco-friendly, affordable, and can generate electricity without direct sunlight, with potential for future efficiency improvements.

Elles is a custom ls-like command with additional features and options, aiming to provide a more user-friendly and customizable experience. It offers various options such as column width control, time format customization, and filtering capabilities, making it a more flexible alternative to the standard ls command.

Adobe's updated terms of service have sparked controversy, leading some companies to restrict Adobe product use. Professionals may resist switching due to lack of alternatives, but alternatives like GIMP for Photoshop and Krita for graphic design exist.

Google and NV Energy launch a new clean energy partnership to meet growing power demand with reliable and affordable clean power, aiming to operate data centers and office campuses on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. The partnership introduces a new clean transition rate, allowing utilities and customers to invest in clean firm capacity and accelerate the commercial deployment of advanced, ...

California has the largest wage gap in the US, with a 146% gap between the 75th and 25th percentiles. The state's high cost of living and soaring home prices exacerbate the issue, making it difficult for many Californians to achieve the American dream.

The study investigates the iridescence phenomenon in pork muscle tissue, which is caused by the diffraction of light by the periodic structure of the muscle fibers, and demonstrates a methodology for quantitatively measuring iridescence using reflection spectrophotometry. The study finds that the intensity of the diffracted light decreases as the surface of the muscle tissue is dried, ...

The author learned to use POV-Ray by teaching themselves the scene description language and rendering 25 scenes in 25 days, including scenes with spheres, boxes, and light sources. The author also installed POV-Ray 3.6 on a Debian system and studied online tutorials and articles to learn elementary ray tracing with POV-Ray.

The traditional playbook for building startups in SaaS and fintech is breaking down, and a new model called "dark software" is emerging, which combines fintech and SaaS products from different vendors into a seamless, full-stack offering for hyper-specialized segments. This new model requires a focus on hyper-specialization, a full-stack product offering, and outsourcing of non-core functions ...

Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, an AI image-synthesis model that generates images from text prompts, but it has been ridiculed for producing anatomically incorrect images of humans. The model's failures are attributed to the company's insistence on filtering out adult content from the training data, which has resulted in a lack of accurate human anatomy.

Los Angeles became the first large city to require cool roofs in 2013, but many US cities are still unprepared for heatwaves, with vulnerable communities disproportionately impacted. Cities are exploring solutions like green roofs, cool paint, and tree-planting initiatives to mitigate the urban heat island effect.

Qualcomm is releasing its Snapdragon X SoC architecture, featuring a custom Arm v8 "Oryon" CPU core and Hexagon NPU for AI capabilities. The chip is expected to be a major step up for Qualcomm in the Windows PC market, with improved performance and battery life.

Scammers impersonated Andreessen Horowitz partner Peter Lauten on Twitter, luring cryptocurrency targets into downloading malware. One victim lost $245,000 after his wallets were drained by the malware.

European laws regulating online content have led to the removal of most legal speech, with 87.5-99.7% of deleted comments being legally permissible. The report suggests that these laws have unintended consequences, including the over-removal of content, and that the situation will likely worsen due to the constant flux in geopolitical environments.

Verisk, a data broker, has stopped selling detailed driver behavior data to insurers, ending a practice that raised privacy concerns. The move comes after General Motors halted data sharing in March, following outcry over the collection and sale of driver data without explicit consent.

Lignin Industries AB has commercialized its Renol technology, transforming lignin into "renewable, circular" bioplastics, aiming to replace fossil fuel-based plastics. The technology has multiple applications, including industrial uses, and is scalable, resource-efficient, and low in CO2 emissions.

Stable Diffusion Medium, a new compact version of the AI image generator, has been released, but it's generating disturbing and anomalous images, including monstrous bodies and hand issues. The problem may be due to the model's lack of training data on adult content, which is being censored, leading to a failure to understand human anatomy and generate realistic images.

The author, a nerdy teen, shares their skepticism about neural networks and AI's ability to replicate the human brain's complexity, citing the limitations of current AI technology. They mention a paper on situational awareness and AI's potential impact, highlighting the need for governments to be cautious of AI's consequences.

CAPTCHA verifies human identity and grants temporary access to a web property. Anti-virus scans can detect malware on personal devices or network administrator can scan for misconfigured devices.

Mamba models, a type of selective state-space model, are compared to Transformers in a large-scale experiment, showing that while they match or exceed Transformers on many tasks, they lag behind on tasks requiring strong copying or in-context learning. The Mamba-2-Hybrid model, a hybrid of Mamba-2 and MLP layers, exceeds the 8B Transformer on all 12 standard tasks and is predicted to be up to ...

Researchers at KEK in Japan are developing a free-electron laser (FEL) to generate extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light for lithography, which could be cheaper and more efficient than current EUV lithography technology. The FEL uses a particle accelerator to generate EUV light, which could be used to drive multiple lithography machines simultaneously, reducing the cost of advanced chipmaking.

Minuimus is a file optimiser script that automates the process of compressing files without compromising their contents, using various file-specific optimisations and utilities. It supports a range of file formats, including PDF, ZIP, EPUB, and more, and can reduce file sizes by up to 90% in some cases.

Herbert Simon discussed free will with Jorge Luis Borges, critiquing maximizing rationality and suggesting an approach to decision-making. Simon's ideas contributed to a broader concept of rationality in economics, incorporating free will.

YouTube is considering server-side ad injection to combat ad blockers, which may impact user experience and content delivery speed. However, this move may also create opportunities for ad blockers to automatically skip injected ads, adding complexity to ad delivery and potentially slowing down content delivery.

The Valhalla project aims to flatten value objects in Java, allowing for more efficient memory usage and improved performance. The project involves various implementation tactics, including buffering, flattening, and using atomic wrappers to ensure consistency and consistency of access to value objects.

Wells Fargo fired over a dozen employees for allegedly faking work from home by using devices to simulate keyboard activity. The firings come as the bank has been pushing employees to return to the office under a hybrid flexible model.

Google's AI Overviews feature uses significantly more energy than traditional search engines, with estimates suggesting it costs 30 times as much energy to generate text versus extracting it from a source. The increased energy consumption is likely to deepen the tech sector's hunger for fossil fuels and water, with some estimates suggesting it could cost Google $6 billion dollars per year.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has a patent wall displaying 192 certificates, showcasing innovations in food crop biology. Scientists have made breakthroughs in wheat, sorghum, millet, and maize, with genetically modified giant rice being successfully harvested in Guizhou.

The algorithm uses a pairing function to enumerate trees generated by a Context Free Grammar, providing a general way to number expressions in natural logical languages. The algorithm can be generalized to more general forms of derivation, including analogs of Lempel-Ziv coding on trees.

The author discusses the "Sober AI" movement, highlighting the humble work being done in the field, and how it's often misunderstood as hype. Despite the excitement, the actual work with Large Language Models (LLMs) is often mundane, involving data preparation and debugging, with the "AI" work being a small part of the process.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino held an all-hands meeting to address employee concerns about performance reviews and promotions, but did not provide specific answers. The meeting focused on promoting live events and advertising, with Yaccarino emphasizing the company's focus on video and promising quarterly performance reviews.

The Stanford Internet Observatory is shutting down due to a sustained campaign by Republicans to discredit research institutions and academics investigating political speech and influence campaigns. The lab's remnants will be reconstituted under Jeff Hancock, with some initiatives, including child safety work and a peer-reviewed journal, continuing under separate programs.

ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models

Tesla Cybertruck owners are listing their nearly-new trucks for sale, with 232 listings on Autotrader and around 300 online, making up 4-5% of all Cybertrucks sold. Despite high prices, many owners are struggling to sell their trucks, with some listing them for thousands of dollars below their original price.

The author reflects on the significance of epigraphs in literature, exploring how they can establish themes, tone, and authorial intent, while also highlighting personal connections and meanings. The author's own collection of quotes has become a valuable resource for literary analysis and a symbol of their own literary journey.

The concept of chaos theory suggests that small, seemingly insignificant events can have significant and unpredictable consequences, challenging our understanding of causality and the concept of cause and effect. While the butterfly effect is often used to illustrate this idea, it is important to distinguish between the physical perspective of chaos theory and the human perspective of agency ...

Africa's economic challenges are immense, with high poverty rates, low economic growth, and poor business environments, but special economic zones with their own laws and governance can offer a solution by creating a more favorable business environment and attracting investment and talent. By establishing charter cities or special economic zones with state-of-the-art e-government, fair laws, ...

The author reflects on his experience working for Jean Stein, a renowned editor and oral historian, and her iconic Rolodex, which held the secrets to her vast network of influential contacts in the literary world. The author's journey is a poignant exploration of the power dynamics and social capital that come with being part of a select group, and the burden that comes with maintaining such a Rolodex.

Jordan Hatmaker, a 35-year-old thrill-seeker, suffered a severe skydiving accident in 2021, resulting in a broken back, crushed spinal cord, and other injuries, but she has made a remarkable recovery and is now back to her adventurous self. Despite the challenges she faced, Hatmaker remains optimistic and has even returned to skydiving, completing a tandem jump in Utah.

Nvidia's Hopper architecture dominated MLPerf benchmarks, with a 11,616-GPU system setting records in five tests, including fine-tuning large language models and graph neural networks. Nvidia's software improvements, including flash attention and optimized power budgeting, contributed to the company's success, with a 27% improvement in GPT-3 training times.

Amber is a high-level programming language that allows users to write Bash scripts in a more modern and easier-to-understand syntax, compiling the script into a Bash script that can be run directly. Amber aims to provide a type-safe and runtime-safe language that helps prevent syntax errors and makes it easier for new users to write Bash scripts.

Maven, a new social network, has been importing posts from the Fediverse without consent, including Bluesky statuses, and running AI sentiment analysis. The move has been met with criticism, with some calling it a breach of trust, and Maven has since paused the integration and removed ingested content.

The Unity Catalog (UC) is a multimodal interface that supports various formats, engines, and assets, with plugin support for extensibility and unified governance for data and AI. The UC provides a CLI for exploring contents, connecting to UC, and operating on volumes and functions, with APIs evolving and subject to change.

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Noodle RAT is a new category of malware that has been active since 2016, used by Chinese state-backed cyber groups and private companies for espionage and hacking. It is a modular backdoor that can be used for file transfers, task scheduling, and SOCKS tunneling, and is likely sold or distributed among Chinese-speaking entities.