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The Fediverse — the name for a social network made up of interconnected servers such as Mastodon — received further legitimacy on Tuesday after the @Potus (President of the United States) account on an Instagram thread shared the first federation post. I just got it. An account run by Biden's team published a message about the president's support for reproductive freedom on Threads, a high-profile Twitter/X competitor of Meta. Soon after, the Threads user noticed that his posts were showing Threads' Fediverse sharing logo. The logo is circular, resembling a planet orbiting a star, giving a sense of the interconnected…
How do you get an AI to answer a question it shouldn't? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, but researchers at Anthropic suggest that by preparing yourself with a few dozen benign questions first, We just discovered a new technique that allows large language models to convincingly tell us how to make bombs. They call this approach a “multi-shot jailbreak,” and they wrote a paper about it and informed their colleagues in the AI community about it so they can mitigate it. This vulnerability is new and is due to the increased “context window” in the latest generation of LLMs.…
Rubrik, a privately held data cybersecurity company that raised more than $500 million, filed to go public after the bell Monday. Rubrik's choice to pursue an initial public offering now, on the heels of the debuts of Reddit and Astera Labs, could signal that the IPO market is warming for technology companies. Rubrik last raised a letter round as a private market company in 2019, when it closed on $261 million at a post-money valuation of $3.6 billion, according to Crunchbase data. If the company is lucky, it may be able to price its IPO shares significantly higher than the…
Meta denies giving Netflix access to users' private messages.This claim started recently Currently in circulation at X After X owner Elon Musk amplified multiple Post Regarding that matter,oh” and “Yeah'' The claim refers to court filings that surfaced as part of the discovery process in a class action lawsuit over data privacy practices between consumer groups and Facebook's parent company Meta. The document claims that Netflix and Facebook have a “special relationship” and that Facebook has even reduced spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service to avoid competing with Netflix, a major Facebook advertiser. . It also…
Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python Software Foundation, and Rust Foundation are pooling their collective resources and connecting the dots between existing security best practices in open source software development. When the new law takes effect in 2020, the much-maligned software supply chain will be up to the task. component It is estimated that between 70% and 90% of today's software is made…
A group of 200 musicians has signed an open letter calling on technology companies and developers not to undermine human creativity with AI music generation tools. The list of signature artists is so strong and broad that it could be a great Coachella lineup. Billie Eilish, Bob Marley Estate, Chapel Lawn, Elvis Costello, Greta Van Fleet, Imagine Dragons and Jon Bon Jovi are featured. , Jonas Brothers, Kacey Musgraves, Katy Perry, Mac DeMarco, Miranda Lambert, Mumford & Sons, Nicki Minaj, Noah Kahan, Pearl Jam, Sheryl Crow, Zayn Malik and more. “When used irresponsibly, AI poses a significant threat to our…
Like the headset it was designed for, Apple's persona is a work in progress. The original version of the beta avatar was: Is “nightmarish” too strong a word? Subsequent updates have made it more flavorful and more life-like, and Apple says it's still working on 3D capture. The company on Tuesday announced the “Space” persona for Vision Pro headsets running visionOS 1.1 or later. Previously, this feature was limited to chat platforms like FaceTime and Zoom, but the new version is designed to bring an even more collaborative feel to the headset. The spatial aspect still starts with FaceTime, but…
On Tuesday, Amazon launched a new service called Deadline Cloud that allows customers to configure, deploy, and scale up graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on AWS cloud infrastructure. The new service is aimed at the media and entertainment industry and was introduced in time for the National Association of Broadcasters conference, which begins in Las Vegas later this month. Deadline Cloud enables architecture and engineering as well as media and entertainment customers to use AWS computing to render content such as television shows, movies, advertisements, video games, and digital blueprints. , said Antony Passemard, GM of AWS Creative Tools.…
Y Combinator President Garry Tan I used social platform X On Tuesday, he again expressed his displeasure with elected officials representing San Francisco, home of the storied accelerator. This time, he slammed California Congressman Matt Haney over his late-night email bill. Mr. Haney serves in San Francisco's equivalent of the state House of Representatives. legalize hard labor Haney is spreading nonsense again, from the man who killed Algebra and started the fentanyl crisis in the Tenderloin https://t.co/SGJ9eGwW4f — Garry Tan 💥♻️ e/acc (@garrytan) April 2, 2024 The tweet read, “Legalize hard labor. Haney is spreading yet another nonsense from the…
Spotify announced Tuesday that it will also offer free audiobook benefits in Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. Users in these markets can listen to 15 hours of audiobooks for free each month. Spotify also announced that it will expand its audiobook catalog from 200,000 to 250,000 titles. This benefit is already available in the US, UK and Australia. The expansion comes two months after Spotify announced its audiobook service was the second-largest audiobook provider behind Amazon-owned Audible. Spotify says users have listened to more than 150,000 titles since the free service launched last November. Audiobooks can be found in the…