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It’s not often you encounter a device that looks like it came straight out of a movie set. But Lenovo’s Project Crystal, supposedly the world’s first laptop with a transparent microLED display, is an example of sci-fi come to life.
Currently there are no plans to turn Project Crystal into a retail product. Instead Lenovo’s latest concept device was commissioned by its ThinkPad division to explore the potential of transparent microLED panels and AI integration. The most obvious use case would be sharing info somewhere, like a doctor’s office or a hotel desk. Instead of needing to flip a screen around, you could simply reverse the display via software, allowing anyone on the other side to see it while getting an in-depth explanation. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Research
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Code Llama 70B can generate and debug larger programming strings than Meta’s previous models.
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MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here.
This time last year we did something reckless. In an industry where nothing stands still, we had a go at predicting the future.
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Apple, which many had considered very conservative in its approach to AI, quietly released frameworks and model libraries designed to run on its chips and maybe bring generative AI apps to MacBooks.
The company’s machine learning research team released MLX, a machine learning framework where developers can build models that run efficiently on Apple Silicon and deep learning model library MLX Data. Both are accessible through open-source repositories like GitHub and PyPI.
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Russian hackers and cybercrime forums are notorious for exploiting critical infrastructure. Last month, Hackread.com exclusively reported that a Russian-speaking threat actor was selling access to a US military satellite. Now, researchers have identified macOS malware being sold for $60,000.
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Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots, including ChatGPT
Like a magic wand that turns chatbots evil.
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Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers to a botnet designed to steal bandwidth and provide a hidden residential proxy service.
This allows its operators to hide a wide spectrum of malicious activities, from digital advertising fraud to password spraying.
According to Lumen's Black Lotus Labs threat research team, while the AVrecon remote access trojan (RAT) compromised over 70,000 devices, only 40,000 were added to the botnet after gaining persistence. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Linux
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“The cloud” was a big tech buzzword about a decade ago. Everything would be accessible everywhere. And that more or less happened — with a little prep work and a decent connection, you can access pretty much anything from anywhere, from your resume .doc file to a collection of movies to full streaming PC games. But, according to recently revealed information, Microsoft is looking into streaming all of Windows to client PCs from cloud-based servers. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Microsoft
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Bing AI is now open to all—sort of. Three months after debuting its revamped search engine, Microsoft has announced that it's now moving into open preview. You'll still need to sign into Bing on the Edge browser (or the Bing mobile apps) to use the chatbot, but at least you no longer have to deal with a waitlist.
As if to celebrate this new phase of Bing (powered by OpenAI's GPT-4), Microsoft is also rolling out several new features. For one, it can go beyond mere text responses to deliver charts, graphs and rich formatting. The Bing Image Creator, which taps into DALL-E to craft AI-generated pictures, also now supports the more than 100 languages that Bing's standard search offers.
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Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup that’s valued at €2 billion (about $2.1 billion). The Financial Times reports that the partnership will include Microsoft taking a minor stake in the 10-month-old AI company, just a little over a year after Microsoft invested more than $10 billion into its OpenAI partnership.
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Restraints required
Companies selling AI models and services clearly understand there's a problem. They refer to "guardrails" put in place around foundational models to help them stay in their lane – even if these don't work very well. Precautions of this sort would unnecessary if these models didn't contain child sexual abuse material and a panoply of other toxic content.
It's as if AI developers read writer Alex Blechman's viral post about tech companies interpreting the cautionary tale "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" as a product roadmap and said, "Looks good to me."
Of course there are older literary references that suit AI, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Pandora's Box – a particularly good fit given that AI models are frequently referred to as black boxes due to the lack of transparency about training material.
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CHATGPT AND ITS artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal information, or step-by-step instructions for building an improvised bomb. But researchers at Carnegie Mellon University last week showed that adding a simple incantation to a prompt—a string text that might look like gobbledygook to you or me but which carries subtle significance to an AI model trained on huge quantities of web data—can defy all of these defenses in several popular chatbots at once.
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Anthropic, an AI company, released its latest large language model-powered chatbot, Claude 2, last week, the latest development in a race to build bigger and better artificial intelligence models.
Claude 2 is an improvement on Anthropic’s previous AI model, Claude 1.3, particularly in terms of its ability to write code based on written instructions and the size of its “context window,” which means users can now input entire books and ask Claude 2 questions based on their content. These improvements suggest Claude 2 is now in the same league as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, the models which power OpenAI’s ChatGPT. However, like OpenAI’s models, Claude 2 still exhibits stereotype bias and ‘hallucinates’ — in other words, it makes things up. And there remain larger questions about the race between AI companies to bring out more powerful AI models without addressing the risks they pose.
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Mastodon, the free and open-source decentralized social networking platform, has patched four vulnerabilities, one of them critical that allows hackers to create arbitrary files on the server using specially crafted media files.
Mastodon has about 8.8 million users spread across 13,000 separate servers (instances) hosted by volunteers to support distinct yet inter-connected (federated) communities.
All the four issues fixed were discovered by independent auditors at Cure53, a company that provides penetration testing for online services. The auditors inspected Mastodon's code at Mozilla's request. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/social-media-and-its-influence/?&tag=Mastodon
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Folks are spending less time on Twitter since Elon Musk bought the social media site last year, but there’s still plenty of demand for similar platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky. To that point, Meta has long been rumored to be building its own platform to rival Twitter. After months of speculation, there’s finally some details to go along with the rumors, according to digital media marketing expert Lia Haberman. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/social-media-and-its-influence
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When it comes to online marketing, user experience (UX) drives conversion rates and customer loyalty.
User experience comprises design, content, the speed of a website or application, and more.
However, content influences UX more than most other factors. If leveraged well, it motivates users, guides them, and converts them.
In this post, I’ll share how content curation can improve user experience for your audience.
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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=curation
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https://globaleducationandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/pkm-personal-professional-knowledge-management/
https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Blogging
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