Economy

August 25, 2023
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10X coders beware: Meta’s new AI model boosts coding and debugging for free

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) Meta is adding another Llama to its herd—and this one knows how to…
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August 25, 2023
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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits

Enlarge (credit: Dropbox) Sometimes the honor system just doesn’t work. Up until yesterday, Dropbox offered an unlimited $24-per-user-per-month plan for…
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August 25, 2023
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Microsoft signing keys keep getting hijacked, to the delight of Chinese threat actors

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In July, security researchers revealed a sobering discovery: hundreds of pieces of malware used by multiple…
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August 24, 2023
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California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) California’s main firefighting agency, Cal Fire, is training AI models to detect visual signs of wildfires…
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August 24, 2023
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Nvidia thinks AI boom is far from over as GPU sales drive big earnings win

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) On top of Wednesday’s news that Nvidia earnings have performed far better than…
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August 23, 2023
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You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo—the AI model that powers the free version of…
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August 23, 2023
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WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A newly discovered zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file-compression program has been exploited for four…
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August 23, 2023
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IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes

Enlarge / COBOL 73, as seen (inside Windows) in the IRS’s Austin, Texas, offices in 2022. (credit: Washington Post /…
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August 22, 2023
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Meta’s “massively multilingual” AI model translates up to 100 languages, speech or text

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Meta announced SeamlessM4T, a multimodal AI model for speech and text translations. As a…
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August 22, 2023
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T-Mobile unveils $100 phone plan, topping AT&T and Verizon’s highest prices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) T-Mobile yesterday announced a phone plan called “Go5G Next” that costs $100 a…
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