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Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software
Take a page from the AI companies' book - just claim AI "learned" from the CUDA SDK and call it fair use.
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Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software
Take a page from the AI companies' book - just claim AI "learned" from the CUDA SDK and call it fair use.
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More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI.
If they're counting all the auto-completed code that's inserted after pressing Tab on an AI suggestion (such as from Copilot), then I easily believe it.
Tons of places in code only have 1 possible thing that can go on a particular line, given the context, and there is no point in typing it all out manually.
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AMD says overclocking blows a hidden fuse on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 to show if you've overclocked the chip, but it doesn't automatically void your CPU's warranty
It's just like a car having an odometer. This would come in handy when buying second-hand, remember all the uncertainty about the condition of used GPUs?
(That is assuming they make the state user-readable though.)
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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
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This may actually be one of those things where it turns out to be worth it (for them anyway), if they can get some major technological advancements out of it.
There are so many other things in the world that are way more wasteful and way more pointless.
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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only
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It's also controlled by another crypto shill, so it has that in common with Twitter too.
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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
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More like start learning a second language and give up after a week.
This may be a stereotype, but TikTok specifically caters to people with short attention spans.
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An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act
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That's only true for people who don't care about operating lawfully. A big company cannot practically afford to do the same things as some random fly under the radar niche community.
That being said, this is a US company, so that may be a problem.
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Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds
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You can do this with any camera, including the one in all the phones out there. The only thing specific to the glasses is that it's more convenient and inconspicuous to be wearing it on your face.
Might as well have put the iPhone in the title for more clickbait. Anyone dedicated enough can make or buy tons of different kinds of wearables that could do the same.
The key issue is that such a database exists and is so easily searchable.
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Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced
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The ironic thing is that if it weren't for free software, the entire AI industry would likely be a decade behind where it is today, if not more.
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Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses
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For these kind of generic questions, ChatGPT is great at giving you the common fluff you'd find in a random "10 ways to improve your career" youtube video.
Which may still be useful advice, but you can probably already guess what it's going to say before hitting enter.
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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film
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Out of context, on its own, it wouldn't be. But if you look at who is pushing it, that changes the picture.
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OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4
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It does - it's also mentioned in the article.
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Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com
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Anything for indent (barely matters, as long as the editor forces it to stay consistent), and fuck alignment, just put things on a new line.
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Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
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Q4 2024 was before all the overt nazi shit.
But I agree that calling it dead is premature.
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Microsoft to Force Web Links Shared in Teams to Open with Microsoft Edge
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Ironically, the larger market share of macOS (compared to back then), mobile platforms, and the fact that Chrome is now the #1 browser means there's a much weaker case for there being a monopoly now.
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Apple cropped Vision Pro photos to remove key part
This is another "use a black wallpaper to hide the notch" situation. Kinda funny, but ultimately meaningless.
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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it
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I still see fake download button ads distributed via Google's own ad infrastructure to this day. I even reported a few that were taken down.
For all the AI prowess Google likes to brag about, why can't they make a simple "does this look like a download button?" detector? The scams are not that clever, most of them follow one of a small number of specific patterns.
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Don’t learn to code: Nvidia’s founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path
I can kind of see his point, but the things he is suggesting instead (biology, chemistry, finance) don't make sense for several reasons.
Besides the obvious "why couldn't AI just replace those people too" (even though it may take an extra few years), there is also a question of how many people can actually have a deep enough expertise to make meaningful contributions there - if we're talking about a massive increase of the amount of people going into those fields.
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After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff
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But if you read all the answers you may find an up to date suggestion in the comments of a non-accepted answer.
Honestly this is not bad, if it solves your problem and it took less than 10 minutes of reading overall.
Plus you gain some understanding along the way, about why the other answers aren't going to solve your problem, which is also valuable.
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Google Launches Project IDX, A web-based IDE
I do think it solves an interesting problem where you’re working on your desktop and decide to move to your laptop and continue working on the same codebase, but don’t want to commit early so you can pull down the changes to your laptop.
You can just push the changes to a different branch and then merge it to your normal feature branch later. Takes like 5 seconds.