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Andreas Kling, developer of the Ladybird Browser has announced the first ever Browser Jam, a weekend-long event for new developers to build browsers.
It's basically like a gamejam but instead of making a game in one weekend you have to build a web browser.
Here's the github page: https://github.com/BrowserJam/browserjam
The AI industry is fraught with failure.
NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
Edit: I replaced an edited youtube compilation of this talk with a link to the original NSA press release. It links to the original digital copies of the talk in two parts.
Here is the original link: NSA Releases Internal 1982 Lecture by Computing Pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Test of a prototype quantum Internet runs underneath New York City for half a month
To introduce quantum networks into the marketplace, engineers must overcome the fragility of entangled states in a fiber cable and ensure the efficiency of signal delivery. Now, scientists at Qunnect Inc. in Brooklyn, New York, have taken a large step forward by operating just such a network under t...
But how is the latency for online gaming? It'd be awesome if it's near instantaneous, or limited only by the net code.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs. 7700X: 40+ Game Benchmark
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15873568
> holy shit > > if this is true AMD gamers just got a huge free boost in gaming performance > > > Windows was very unoptimized for Ryzen
DC (direct current) power network
As we all know, AC won the "War of the Currents". The reasoning behind this is that AC voltage is easy to convert up/down with just a ring of iron and two coils. And high voltage allows us to transport current over longer distances, with less loss.
Now, the War of the Currents happened in 1900 (approximately), and our technology has improved a lot since then. We have useful diodes and transistors now, we have microcontrollers and Buck/Boost converters. We can transform DC voltage well today.
Additionally, photovoltaics produces DC naturally. Whereas the traditional generator has an easier time producing AC, photovoltaic plants would have to transform the power into AC, which, if I understand correctly, has a massive loss.
And then there's the issue of stabilizing the frequency. When you have one big producer (one big hydro-electric dam or coal power plant), then stabilizing the frequency is trivial, because you only have to talk to yourself. When you have 100000 small producers (assume everyone in a bigger area has photovoltaics on their roof), then suddenly stabilizing the frequency becomes more challenging, because everybody has to work in exactly the same rhythm.
I wonder, would it make sense to change our power grid from AC to DC today? I know it would obviously be a lot of work, since every consuming device would have to change what power it accepts from the grid. But in the long run, could it be worth it? Also, what about insular networks. Would it make sense there? Thanks for taking the time for reading this, and also, I'm willing to go into the maths, if that's relevant to the discussion.
While more and more robotic dogs are appearing in China's cities, companies say they've been caught off guard by videos of the machines armed with guns in military exercises.
From Beijing to Hangzhou, the sight of robotic dogs in a park is becoming more and more common.
Climbing stairs? No problem. And what about hills? They can do that too.
Josh Yuan showed us his robo-dog in one of Beijing's fanciest shopping districts, guiding it through a crowd of curious onlookers with a handheld remote-controlled device.
He paid £1,300 for his new companion a few months ago.
"I think at the moment it's for people like me, or tech geeks and programmers," Mr Yuan said.
"But I think in the future, it will be quite common and humanoid robots will definitely enter people's homes when they are more affordable."
There are dozens of robot companies in China. A few of them, like the Hangzhou company Unitree, are focused on robotic dogs.
The Unitree team showed off their two latest models. One is a small dog, that can be used as a companion or dressed up in a dragon or panda costume for fun.
They also have a larger model, strong enough to lift me on its back.
It's designed for industries to use and can carry supplies, be sent into a fire or emergency, or be used to check pipelines and infrastructure.
In May, however, robodogs received some extra - and unwanted - attention after China's state media channel showed them being used in training exercises with weapons firing from their back.
The People's Liberation Army was using these gun-toting robots as they trained with Cambodian forces. But Unitree says the video came as a surprise.
The company's marketing manager, Duke Huang, explained: "We learnt about this [video] from the internet, just like everyone else. We didn't know anything about it before that."
These robots aren't designed for military use, but the video caused a storm.
"We can't control how buyers use the dog after they buy it," Mr Huang says. "But we are thinking about how to prohibit military use in the future."
With drones already operating on the battlefield, could robodogs be next? Unitree doesn't think so.
"The dog is not that smart, it's very simple," Mr Huang says. "It still needs my control to move. It doesn't have a brain."
P W Singer, a strategist at the US think-tank New America who specialises in 21st-century warfare, says "almost every advancement made with AI and robotics in the civilian economy is being mirrored on battlefields".
He notes that "many of the uses of AI and drones in wars like Ukraine and Gaza are almost direct applications of civilian tech".
Post-Article Bot
Hello and welcome!
I have developed a bot that automatically posts to Mastodon at scheduled intervals. In my case, it is used to share studies on gender-based violence online to help raise awareness of the issue. However, the bot's posts are fully customisable, so you could basically use it to post anything.
If you want to implement my bot, here's the code I used.
Step 1: This is your .json File. Enter the account details for the Mastodon account you want the bot to post from. Next, customize the article content, which will become your Mastodon message. Finally, set the interval in seconds to determine how often the bot will post.
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{ "access_token": "add access token of your mastodon account", "api_base_url": "add base url of your mastodon server", "articles": [ "Article 1 content", "Article 2 content", "Article 3 content" ], "interval": 60 - choose time interval }
**Step 2: This is your Python file and the actual bot. Please enter the information as explained above the code brackets. Make sure to delete the descriptions text in quotation marks before running the bot. Otherwise, the code may not work. **
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``` Load configuration with open('config.json') as config_file: config = json.load(config_file)
"Code identifies the Mastodon data (Acess-Token & Server Domain)"
Authenticate to Mastodon mastodon = Mastodon( access_token=config['access_token'], api_base_url=config['api_base_url'] )
"This paragraph posts the articles"
def post_article(article): mastodon.toot(article) print(f"Posted article: {article}")
"Verifies time intervals"
Post articles at regular intervals
articles = config['articles'] interval = config['interval']
for article in articles: post_article(article) time.sleep(interval) ``` ____
For all German speaking people: If you're interested in my original university project, or need help adding the bot to your Mastodon account, you can watch this video: https://tube.spdns.org/w/6tWr68ihyiPQRuZjsoP3zT
(skip to 7:10 for the bot explanation)
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Bot Licensing: AGPL-3.0 (Affero General Public License 3.0) allows for the use and modification of the code but requires that any derived works and versions made available over a network must also be released under the AGPL.
An MIT team used probing classifiers to investigate if language models trained only on next-token prediction can capture the underlying meaning of programming languages. They found that it forms a representation of program semantics to generate correct instructions.
>“An intriguing open question is whether the LLM is actually using its internal model of reality to reason about that reality as it solves the robot navigation problem,” says Rinard. “While our results are consistent with the LLM using the model in this way, our experiments are not designed to answer this next question.”
The paper, "Emergent Representations of Program Semantics in Language Models Trained on Programs" can be found here.
Abstract >We present evidence that language models (LMs) of code can learn to represent the formal semantics of programs, despite being trained only to perform next-token prediction. Specifically, we train a Transformer model on a synthetic corpus of programs written in a domain-specific language for navigating 2D grid world environments. Each program in the corpus is preceded by a (partial) specification in the form of several input-output grid world states. Despite providing no further inductive biases, we find that a probing classifier is able to extract increasingly accurate representations of the unobserved, intermediate grid world states from the LM hidden states over the course of training, suggesting the LM acquires an emergent ability to interpret programs in the formal sense. We also develop a novel interventional baseline that enables us to disambiguate what is represented by the LM as opposed to learned by the probe. We anticipate that this technique may be generally applicable to a broad range of semantic probing experiments. In summary, this paper does not propose any new techniques for training LMs of code, but develops an experimental framework for and provides insights into the acquisition and representation of formal semantics in statistical models of code.
How to sideload on iOS without jailbreak or PC in the easiest way possible?
Relax, this is a tutorial and if you’re a seasoned torrentor than this should be fairly quick to learn even without the explanation but for anybody else this should be the simplest tutorial f…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18996736
> This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to sideload iPA (iPhone App) files on iOS without jailbreak or PC.
Publishers say blocking the company’s AI bot could also prevent their sites from showing up in search
Popular iPad design app Procreate is saying no to generative AI, and has vowed to never introduce generative AI features into its product.
Popular iPad design app Procreate is coming out against generative AI, and has vowed never to introduce generative AI features into its products. The company said on its website that although machine learning is a “compelling technology with a lot of merit,” the current path that generative AI is on is wrong for its platform.
Procreate goes on to say that it’s not chasing a technology that is a threat to human creativity, even though this may make the company “seem at risk of being left behind.”
Procreate CEO James Cuda released an even stronger statement against the technology in a video posted to X on Monday.
Anthropic asks court to dismiss music publishers' AI claims
Artificial-intelligence company Anthropic asked a California federal court on Thursday to dismiss some copyright claims brought by a group of music publishers over the alleged misuse of song lyrics to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.
Anthropic said that the court should reject the publishers' allegations that the company induced Claude users to infringe their copyrights or committed other copyright-related violations.
The company did not address the core claim from the publishers - Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), opens new tab, ABKCO and Concord Music Group - that the use of their lyrics to train AI violates their rights or the key defense that such training makes fair use of copyrighted work.
"Anthropic's latest motion is completely without merit and is yet another example of an AI company seeking to avoid taking responsibility for its massive infringement of copyrights," the publishers' attorney Matt Oppenheim of Oppenheim + Zebrak said in a statement on Friday.
All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address.
If you have the August 13, 2024—KB5041580 update. You're good.
The AI Hangover is Here – The End of the Beginning
The AI Hangover is Here – The End of the Beginning
https://thehackernews.com/2024/08/the-ai-hangover-is-here-end-of-beginning.html?m=1
STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems
> > > A paper[1] presented in June at the NAACL 2024 conference describes "how to apply large language models to write grounded and organized long-form articles from scratch, with comparable breadth and depth to Wikipedia pages." A "research prototype" version of the resulting "STORM" system is available online and has already attracted thousands of users. This is the most advanced system for automatically creating Wikipedia-like articles that has been published to date. > > > > The authors hail from Monica S. Lam's group at Stanford, which has also published several other papers involving LLMs and Wikimedia projects since 2023 (see our previous coverage: WikiChat, "the first few-shot LLM-based chatbot that almost never hallucinates" – a paper that received the Wikimedia Foundation's "Research Award of the Year" some weeks ago). > >
Please read the article before commenting. Also, coming right up, another paper creates a structural diagram in comic sans.
Exploring Emerging Tech
Hello
As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace; it can be challenging to keep up with the latest trends and innovations. I'm interested in hearing from the tech-savvy community here about the emerging technologies that you find most exciting / promising.
Are there specific areas or trends you believe will have a significant impact on the industry in the near future?
Whether it's advancements in AI; new software developments; cutting-edge hardware aws developer / shifts in tech practices; I would love to hear your thoughts and predictions on what's worth paying attention to.
Thank you
Vietnam turns chip sector magnet with affordable, quality talent pool
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18625727
There's a book series, the first of which is called Dark Eden, which is set on a planet substantially like that 🙂
You don't need a different device, just root it and unlock the bootloader to disable the AI stuff..
Welcome to AI:
No, it's what BeOS used to be. I miss the BeBox, just out there flaunting its true multi-processor usage with LEDs
Here's a fitting AI generated Porky
It's kind of off-topic, but also on-topic:
The Queen/king and no one else.
King Charles uses a variety called Received Pronunciation, but both of his sons (William and Harry) use Southern Standard British instead. Geoff Lindsey has a video on the differences.
As such, once William rises to the throne, what's considered "the King's English" will change. And, alongside it, what plenty people in the UK consider as standard English will change too.
For anyone that never heard of, or doesn't know much about the Amiga, I highly recommend this series on Ars Technica
On part 5, it shows that the Amiga 1000 retailed for around 1,300 dollars, while then current Apple computers cost over 2k dollars.
"I agree [with the opposite of what you said]. Also, here, have an irrelevant anecdote that includes a funny misspelling and a supposed diss of FF from 1999"
Not to be confused with African-American Vernacular English.
Aave is what I'd say is more "the kind of language a stereotypical black character in a movie would use".
African-American Vernacular English[a] (AAVE)[b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians.[4] Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more informal and casual end of a sociolinguistic continuum. However, in formal speaking contexts, speakers tend to switch to more standard English grammar and vocabulary, usually while retaining elements of the non-standard accent.[5][6] AAVE is widespread throughout the United States, but is not the native dialect of all African Americans, nor are all of its speakers African American.
It’s almost like they have a terrible track history and hold the gold medal for antitrust and enshitification.
To be fair, there is a young up and comer in that space. They could challenge the enshittification GOAT.
That's not an EV issue that's a modern car issue.
One of the worst privacy risks was Buick who didn't even make EVs.
Thank you for the information its really helpfull!
A free app with no advertising doesn’t make that kind of money, it gets progressively deeper into debt to a good Silicon Valley rich guy who got it off the ground, Brian Acton.
His biography on the Signal Foundation website:
Brian Acton is an entrepreneur and computer programmer who co-founded the messaging app WhatsApp in 2009. After the app was sold to Facebook in 2014, Acton decided to leave the company due to differences surrounding the use of customer data and targeted advertising to focus his efforts on non-profit ventures. In February of 2018, Acton invested $50 million of his own money to start the Signal Foundation alongside Moxie Marlinspike. Signal Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to doing the foundational work around making private communication accessible, secure and ubiquitous.
Prior to founding WhatsApp and Signal Foundation, Acton worked as a software builder for more than 25 years at companies like Apple, Yahoo, and Adobe.
The Wikipedia article on the Foundation says the loan balance was up to $105M later in 2018. Meanwhile, Acton is still worth $2.5B according to Wikipedia, so things are probably fine for now, even 6 years later.
But you’re right that Signal eventually needs revenue to keep even a small team of high caliber software engineers and devsecops folks around. You very much want excellent engineers to continue to be involved with critical encrypted communications software on an ongoing basis, so it will cost money indefinitely. Presumably Acton does not wish to bankroll it indefinitely.
Again back to the interview:
I wouldn’t imagine that most nonprofits pay engineers as much as you do.
Yeah, but most tech is not a nonprofit. Name another nonprofit tech organization shipping critical infrastructure that provides real-time communications across the globe reliably. There isn’t one.
This is not a hypothesis project. We’re not in a room dreaming of a perfect future. We have to do it now. It has to work. If the servers go down, I need a guy with a pager to get up in the middle of the fucking night and be on that screen, diagnosing whatever the problem is, until that is fixed.
So we have to look like a tech company in some ways to be able to do what we do.
I’m really glad they pay those engineers that much, so that Zuckerberg and his ilk can’t entice them away with oodles of money. One presumes they also believe in the cause, but I think this currently looks like Acton fighting surveillance capitalism with what capitalism got for him earlier in his career.
Cofounder Moxie Marlinspike is clearly a brilliant hacker and coder who was crucial to Signal’s creation, but I think it makes sense that he hasn’t stuck around to try to solve the long term business problem of keeping it aloft infinitely.
So what to do about it? The OP interview is with Meredith Whittaker, who’s entire job is figuring that out:
Since she took on the presidency at the Signal Foundation, she has come to see her central task as working to find a long-term taproot of funding to keep Signal alive for decades to come—with zero compromises or corporate entanglements—so it can serve as a model for an entirely new kind of tech ecosystem.
I’m a recurring donor because I want Signal to succeed and I want to vote now with my wallet, but fundamentally it’s on Whittaker to figure out how to make the long term work. Here’s what she says:
I see Signal in 10 years being nearly ubiquitous. I see it being supported by a novel sustainability infrastructure—and I’m being vague about that just because I think we actually need to create the kinds of endowments and support mechanisms that can sustain capital-intensive tech without the surveillance business model. And that’s what I’m actually engaged in thinking through.
I only use Windows in a VM, and never activated it, ever, but my point is that M$ officially thinks that their "advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader" is worth 259.00€.
$160 for OEM Win 11 Pro, or $120 for OEM Win 11 Home. Just be careful because swapping hardware could break the license, and you'd need to call M$ to get it fixed.
Or just install w/o a license key and deal with the watermark (I assume it's the same as w/ Win 10). That's what I did since I primarily use Linux and only use Windows to test random stuff.
this article has not been edited, is from 2022, and says the feature was rolled out in June.
That's just not true. Go to https://ev-database.org/ and compare the dry weight of the different models. You don't add 66kg going from standard to long range in software.
They've been delaying a vote on it because they haven't had enough support to get it through.
Looks like they'll prepare another round in October, which would be voted on in December. They'll want this to pass under the radar, preferably behind closed doors.
Seems enough countries have changed their stance that it could pass this time, unless we keep putting pressure on our representatives.