Month: May 2024
Windows 11’s new Recall feature has been cracked to run on unsupported hardware
Image: Microsoft Microsoft unveiled its new Copilot Plus PCs last week, designed to usher in a new wave of AI features in Windows that are exclusive to new laptops. Now, less than two weeks later, Windows enthusiasts have managed to crack Microsoft’s flagship AI-powered Recall feature to run on unsupported hardware. Recall leverages local AI … Read more
Pre-training genomic language models using AWS HealthOmics and Amazon SageMaker
Genomic language models are a new and exciting field in the application of large language models to challenges in genomics. In this blog post and open source project, we show you how you can pre-train a genomics language model, HyenaDNA, using your genomic data in the AWS Cloud. Here, we use AWS HealthOmics storage as … Read more
The Noonification: The LinkedIn Nanotargeting Experiment that Broke All the Rules (5/31/2024)
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OpenAI, Meta Disclose Their AI Tools Were Used for Political Disinformation
The AI giants both revealed this week how their tools have been enlisted in China, Israel, Russia, and Iran to spread political disinformation.
From Bangladesh to Texas: Shakib and the Power of Hackathons
There are plenty of entrepreneurs who can talk about turning adversity into opportunity. Still, they’re usually just talking about “failing up” or rolling a bad investment into a lucky investment later. What they aren’t talking about is paying their way through college while bedridden with illness, unless it’s Mostofa Adib Shakib who’s saying it. If … Read more
Disrupt 2024 early-bird prices end at midnight
This is not a drill! Today marks the final day to secure your early-bird tickets for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 at a significantly reduced rate. At midnight tonight, May 31, ticket prices will increase, so act now to save up to $800 on admission to one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. Disrupt … Read more
Windows on Arm and Copilot Plus could be big for PC gaming
Photo: Getty Images A big part of Microsoft Build that stood out to me last week was the potential of Windows on Arm for PC gaming, especially for laptops and handhelds. Microsoft and Qualcomm aren’t talking much about this yet, but both companies have been dropping hints about game compatibility. Qualcomm said previously that most … Read more
Falcon 2 11B is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we are excited to announce that the first model in the next generation Falcon 2 family, the Falcon 2 11B foundation model (FM) from Technology Innovation Institute (TII), is available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy and run inference. Falcon 2 11B is a trained dense decoder model on a 5.5 trillion token dataset … Read more
Bitcoin Breaks to Low End of Trading Range, but June Data Could Be Next Catalyst
The price action has been highly muted this week after plenty of volatility surrounding the previous week’s surprising regulatory turnaround for the spot ether ETFs.
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EOS Network approves new tokenomics, promises ‘new era’
EOS is shifting to a fixed supply of 2.1 billion tokens and introducing halving cycles amid ongoing community skepticism and past regulatory challenges.
Coinbase Accuses SEC of ‘Purposeful Effort to Destroy’ Crypto
In a legal filing on Friday, America’s leading crypto exchange accused the SEC of trying to snuff out crypto by refusing to make new rules.
Instagram tests ‘trial reels’ that don’t display to a creator’s followers
Instagram is testing a way for creators to experiment with reels without committing to having them displayed on their profiles, giving the social network a possible edge over TikTok and a way for creators to test new content without pressure to perform. The company this week began global tests of this new “trial reels” feature … Read more
Japanese exchange DMM loses $305M in Bitcoin via private key hack
The cryptocurrency exchange lost 4,502.9 BTC due to a hack of its private key; withdrawals have been temporarily suspended.
Feds tell Zoox to send more info about autonomous vehicles suddenly braking
U.S. federal regulators have requested more information from Zoox, Amazon’s self-driving unit, as part of an investigation into rear-end crash risks posed by unexpected braking. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a preliminary investigation into Zoox on May 10 after it received two reports of Zoox vehicles unexpectedly braking, leading to rear-end collisions … Read more
Make meth, napalm with ChatGPT, AI bubble, 50M deepfake calls: AI Eye
Meth recipes with ChatGPT ‘Godmode’, robot dogs with machine guns, AI will need 256% of global compute, is AI the new dotcom bubble? AI Eye
Japanese Exchange DMM Bitcoin Hacked for $308 Million
The exploit against Japanese exchange DMM Bitcoin is one of the largest to hit the crypto industry in years.
WEEX Launches WXT Presale: Affiliates Can Purchase At a 30% Discount with Invitation Points
Singapore, 1st June 2024– WEEX, the futures-friendly trading platform, will officially launch its global ecosystem incentive token WEEX WXT Presale, kicking-off with the WXT “Ribbon-Cutting Event” on June 1st, 2024. Affiliates can participate in the WXT Presale by inviting new users to register, and earn points based on the activity of those users. Using their … Read more
CARV Brings On Animoca Brands As Strategic Investor And Node Operator
SANTA CLARA, California, May 31st, 2024/Chainwire/–CARV the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, announced today a strategic investment from Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse. In addition, Animoca Brands will become an operator of CARV’s Tier 6 verifier nodes in support of CARV’s decentralization of … Read more
‘Quest 3S’ could be the name of Meta’s more affordable VR headset
Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Meta appears to have confirmed the name of its next virtual reality headset: the Quest 3S. In a Quest Store listing spotted by UploadVR, Meta lists the Quest 3S as a supported device. At this time of writing, you can see the Quest 3S listed alongside the Quest … Read more
Canva’s rap battle is part of a long legacy of Silicon Valley cringe
You thought the hottest rap battle of the summer was between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. You were wrong. It’s between Canva and an enterprise CIO. At its Canva Create event last week, Canva unveiled its new enterprise offerings. But few people would be talking about that if not for an unexpected rap battle that took … Read more
The Week in Polkadot: JAM Upgrade Passes in Near-Unanimous Vote
The Polkadot community has spoken, with the network’s proposed JAM upgrade getting an almost unanimous vote of approval.