Month: May 2024

Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops

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On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. The company — which crowdsources skills from more than half a million hackers to find and fix security vulnerabilities and other operational loopholes in … Read more

Google to build first subsea fibre optic cable connecting Africa with Australia

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Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fibre optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia. The news comes as the major cloud hyperscalers battle it out for business dollars, with Google playing catchup with AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. Notably, Google’s announcement follows widespread outages across Eastern Africa, which have … Read more

Multipool Launches LBP On Fjord Foundry Raising $200k In 24 Hours

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MAJURO, Marshall Islands, May 22nd, 2024/Chainwire/–Multipool, a leading innovator in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, launched their Fjord Foundry LBP on May 21st, raising $200k in the first 24 hours. Making waves in the crypto industry, Multipool is taking a leading role in the marketplace transforming the trading landscape for real-world assets (RWAs) and cryptocurrencies. … Read more

Human-Driven Plays Co-Written with Dramatron

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:::info Authors: (1) PIOTR MIROWSKI and KORY W. MATHEWSON, DeepMind, United Kingdom and Both authors contributed equally to this research; (2) JAYLEN PITTMAN, Stanford University, USA and Work done while at DeepMind; (3) RICHARD EVANS, DeepMind, United Kingdom. ::: Table of Links Abstract and Intro Storytelling, The Shape of Stories, and Log Lines The Use … Read more

The Capabilities of Large Language Models: Hacking or Helping?

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving and are widely used as autonomous agents. Developers can design agents that interact with users, process queries, and execute tasks based on received data, such as detecting errors in complex code, conducting economic analysis, or assisting in scientific discoveries. n However, researchers are growing increasingly concerned about the … Read more

Microsoft Bing issue takes down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features

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It’s a sad panda day. | Image: Microsoft Search capabilities for ChatGPT, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and other platforms aren’t working properly right now due to a Microsoft outage that appears to be related to the Bing application programming interface (API). Sites and services are either completely unavailable or only intermittently responding at the time of publication. … Read more

The Day the Pool Pit Burned Down – An AI-Generated Script from Dramatron

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:::info Authors: (1) PIOTR MIROWSKI and KORY W. MATHEWSON, DeepMind, United Kingdom and Both authors contributed equally to this research; (2) JAYLEN PITTMAN, Stanford University, USA and Work done while at DeepMind; (3) RICHARD EVANS, DeepMind, United Kingdom. ::: Table of Links Abstract and Intro Storytelling, The Shape of Stories, and Log Lines The Use … Read more