IT News 1 year ago

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview - OCR tech not quite ready for primetime, in this bit of Windows at least Microsoft has dis... -

theregister

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview

OCR tech not quite ready for primetime, in this bit of Windows at least

IT News 1 year ago

Will AI kill Google? Past predictions of doom were totally wrong. - Past technology revolutions made Google even stronger rather than weaker, as many tech du... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/22/google-monopoly-ai/

IT News 1 year ago

Score 4TB of PCIe 4.0 SSD storage for just 5 cents per GB — Crucial's P3 Plus is a Black Friday steal - Crucial P3 Plus 4TB drops to $212.99 ahead of Black Friday.... -

Tom

Best SSD deals 2026 — savings on Samsung, WD, Crucial, and other SSDs at Amazon, Newegg, and others

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IT News 1 year ago

How the World's Vital Undersea Data Cables Are Being Targeted - Damage to two undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea this month points to g... -

How the World

Damage to two undersea fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea this month points to growing vulnerability of critical submarine infrastructure, with G...

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IT News 1 year ago

Elon Musk Gets a Crash Course in How Trumpworld Works - The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat c... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/us/politics/elon-musk-trump.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #governmentefficiencydepartment(us) #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #presidentialelectionof2024 #highnetworthindividuals #trumpdonaldj #mulvaneymick #muskelon

IT News 1 year ago

AMD increases official Ryzen 7 9800X3D pricing to 542 Euros in Europe due to exchange rate fluctuations - AMD might be worried about changing prices based on the exc... -

Tom

AMD increases official Ryzen 7 9800X3D pricing to 542 Euros in Europe due to exchange rate fluctuations

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IT News 1 year ago

Amazon Doubles Investment in AI Startup Anthropic To $8 Billion - Amazon said on Friday it will invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup Anthro... -

Amazon Doubles Investment in AI Startup Anthropic To $8 Billion - Slashdot

Amazon said on Friday it will invest an additional $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, following earlier investments of $4 billion made in Septembe...

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IT News 1 year ago

OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser - An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI is preparing to launch a frontal assau... -

OpenAI Considers Taking on Google With Browser - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI is preparing to launch a frontal assault on Google. The ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a ...

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IT News 1 year ago

DOJ Antitrust Case Aims To Undo Google-Anthropic Partnership - An anonymous reader quotes a report from PYMNTS: The Justice Department's proposal... -

DOJ Antitrust Case Aims To Undo Google-Anthropic Partnership - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PYMNTS: The Justice Department

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IT News 1 year ago

Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Documents, CEO Emails - According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft's Copilot tool inadvertently ... -

Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Documents, CEO Emails - Slashdot

According to Business Insider (paywalled), Microsoft

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IT News 1 year ago

Apple Is Reportedly Building a More Conversational Siri Powered By LLMs - According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is developing a new version of Siri powe... -

Apple Is Reportedly Building a More Conversational Siri Powered By LLMs - Slashdot

According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is developing a new version of Siri powered by large language models (LLMs). TechCrunch reports: The new...

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IT News 1 year ago

Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry - An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Instagram is flooded with hund... -

Inside the Booming

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Instagram is flooded with hundreds of AI-generated influencers who are stealing videos from rea...

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IT News 1 year ago

DeepSeek's First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance - An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of ... -

DeepSeek

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management foc...

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IT News 1 year ago

'Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine' - AI tools remain prediction engines despite new capabilities, requiring both qualit... -

'Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine' - Slashdot

AI tools remain prediction engines despite new capabilities, requiring both quality data and human judgment for successful deployment, according to...

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IT News 1 year ago

An Animated Walkthrough of How Large Language Models Work - If you wonder how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and aren’t afraid of getting a... -

Hackaday

An Animated Walkthrough Of How Large Language Models Work

If you wonder how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and aren’t afraid of getting a bit technical, don’t miss [Brendan Bycroft]’s ...

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IT News 1 year ago

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 - Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit  Professor Thomas Eugene K... -

theregister

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week

IT News 1 year ago

Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' in UK - The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an "assertive" approach from the regula... -

Social media ban for under-16s 'on the table' says UK government

The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an "assertive" approach from the regulator, Ofcom.

IT News 1 year ago

Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous - CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes ex... -

theregister

Data is the new uranium – both powerful and dangerous

Column: CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value

IT News 1 year ago

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system - Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating th... -

Ars Technica

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system

Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a "Large Geospatial Model."

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IT News 1 year ago

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI - An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the... -

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: The US Patent and Trademark Office banned the use of generative artificial intelligence for any purpose last y...

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