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It’s “a milestone for Meta AI and for open source,” Mark Zuckerberg said this weekend. “For the first time, the best small, mid-size, and potentially soon frontier [large-language] models will be open source.” Zuckerberg anounced four new Llama LLMs in a video posted on Instagram and Facebook — two dropping this weekend, with another two on the way. “Our goal is to build the world’s leading...
It was long-time Slashdot reader uninet who argued “Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia.” (That is, Apple needs an upgrade to MacOS Sequoia that’s like it’s earlier “Snow Leopard” upgrade to “Leopard” OS — an upgrade that’s “all about how little it added and how much it took away”.) “My recent column on Apple’s declining software quality hit a nerve…” he writes in a follow-up. “So why do any of us put...
“I started working on Voyager in 1977,” the Voyager mission’s project scientist told Gizmodo Saturday in a new interview. “It was my first job out of college.” 35 years later, a Voyager probe became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space in 2012, with Voyager 2 following in 2018. But while each Voyager spacecraft carries 10 scientific instruments, all but three have now been...
You just spent a lot of money on a new Samsung phone. Keep it safe with these cases and screen protectors.
Tinder “is experimenting with a chatbot that claims to help users improve their flirting skills,” notes Washington Post internet-culture reporter Tatum Hunter. The chatbot is available only to users in the United States on iPhones for a limited time, and powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o each character “kicks off an improvised conversation, and the user responds out loud with something flirty…” “Three...
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Want an iMac instead of a MacBook? Or want to create a home office workstation with a Mac Mini? These are Apple Macs to buy.
The partnership will see home affairs leveraging the digital capabilities built by the taxman.
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Considering everyone is a protagonist in their own narrative brought clarity for Will Storr
For nearly 20 years, I’ve been researching and writing about the human brain as a storyteller. My work has unalterably changed the way I see the human world in general, and myself in particular. It has helped me understand everything from political hatred and religions to cults to the nature of...
The Nasdaq Composite index is officially in a bear market thanks to US President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
This October will see the release of a film that’s nearly 43 years in the making, reports Ars Technica:It’s difficult to underestimate the massive influence that Disney’s 1982 cult science fiction film, TRON, had on both the film industry — thanks to combining live action with what were then groundbreaking visual effects rife with computer-generated imagery — and on nerd culture at large....
Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how physical systems put hard limits on what we can predict.
TSMC’s latest chip design process, the 2nm node, has serious implications for technology – and for Taiwan’s security.
After years of managerial turmoil and a failed merger with Honda, Nissan is attempting to right the ship. Trump’s tariffs couldn’t have come at a worse time.
Minimalist gadgets like the new Light Phone III, a smartphone that barely does anything, promise to help us focus. The trade-offs are big.
Teslas that have been sold or traded in during the backlash against the company’s chief executive have become bargains on lots.
U.K. postmasters were mistakenly sent to prison due to a bug in their “Horizon” accounting software — as first reported by Computer Weekly back in 2009. Nearly 16 years later, the same site reports that now the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission “is attempting to contact any former subpostmasters that could have been prosecuted for unexplained losses on the Post Office’s pre-Horizon...
This inner critic isn’t you, it’s just a voice that has been given far too much authority
The question I am struggling with intrusive and increasingly critical self-talk around my appearance. So much so that some days I struggle to look in the mirror. I’ve recently had a baby and assumed that my long history of feeling ugly, lesser and fundamentally inadequate would be surpassed by being a...
The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, “But as Starliner’s thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go…”Starliner had flown to within a stone’s throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only...
Humor and art have been used to mock the powerful in Britain for centuries. Now Elon Musk is on the receiving end.