Meta has unveiled the second version of their Lama large language model and even better managed not to leak it this time
I'm Riley Murdoch. This is Techlinked and according to Meta Lama to electric boogaloo
Not the real name is pre-trained on two trillion tokens with fine-tuned models for chat apps being further trained on over
1,000,000,000 human annotations probably left over from when they programmed Mark Zuckerberg
He seems more human recently does jujitsu
Meta claims Lama 2 is open source But the open source initiative is calling BS because mida mida
I was Australian for a second the mida doesn't allow Lama 2
Licenses with over 700 million active daily users and doesn't want people using Lama 2's outputs to improve other LLMs
but even with those restrictions most researchers and commercial users should be able to use it and
Meta has announced a partnership with Qualcomm to get Lama 2 running locally on their processors next year
Finally realizing humanity's collective dream of being able to tell your phone computer
Show me Elon's latest dink meme
But just like the force there's a dark side to LLMs being open source a black hat hacker recently used an open model called
GPTJ to release worm GPT
Which is like chat GPT, but without ethics and with an unhealthy enthusiasm for creating malware
I was just gonna say everything in moderation a cyber security expert at Nord VPN called it chat GPT's
Evil twin and as if we didn't have enough AI stuff to worry about now
I have an image of a chat bot with a goatee in my head. It's very unsettling
Intel announced earlier this week that its NUC mini PC brand was dead
But it turns out it was only mostly dead and ASUS had the chocolate covered miracle pill to bring it back to life
Wow a princess bride reference is already my favorite episode ASUS will get a non-exclusive
License to Intel's next unit of computing or NUC product designs
This will allow ASUS to manufacture 10th gen to 13th gen NUC systems
And maybe even develop later designs based on team blue's future processors
ASUS will even establish a new business unit for the NUC called ASUS NUC BU
Which of course is an anagram for see you you ass bun and see you as unboos
Which is franglish for I see you as a bus. I'm sorry for the last 10 seconds
I wish I could take them back this new business unit will take over customer support and handle the design indicating that ASUS
Has big plans for the NUC brand finally Intel can be free to focus on its core passions
Making great consumer chips and eventually getting around to launching graphics cards after years of edging the US government is preparing a new
Cyber trust mark for smart devices that meet elevated cyber security standards
So buyers can know on-site which baby monitor will quickly patch vulnerabilities and which will email your child's social security number to Russian cyber
Criminals the moment you turn your back straight live stream to Vladimir Putin
He wants to know the label might be available as soon as next year and like say the energy star certification for energy efficiency
This one will likely require products to undergo annual
Recertification to make sure they're up to date with current best practices such as in this case well implemented intrusion detection and not having a
Universal password for every single smart garage door opener you've ever sold and yes
I'm talking about you next with two X's
Why do you have two X's? According to cyber security experts smart appliances like plugs routers cameras and especially TVs are the most vulnerable
Devices in a typical home raising the question of whether my doctor is right and I just need to get more sleep or Elmo really is spying on me
The cyber trust mark is intended to raise security standards and give users peace of mind knowing that the next toaster
They buy is definitely not a sleeper agent for North Korea
Some might say that we don't need so many quick bits, but I just think they're a quick bitter
Norway has issued a three-month ban against Metta starting August 4th that bars Facebook and Instagram from any and all
Behavioral advertising based on data collection and profiling of Norwegian users. I guess Norway hasn't heard about threads yet
Threads is freedom. Oh, it's it's not in Europe. Oh
Uh-oh while meta is free to continue operating in Norway
The company will be fined a hundred thousand dollars for every day
They fail to comply with the order which could total over nine million dollars over the course of the three-month ban
That might sound like a lot, but considering meta made a gross profit of 92 billion dollars last year
It's a bit like threatening to remove hundreds of spoonfuls of water from the ocean
Don't make me mad. Don't test me Reddit decided to delete all users chat history older than January 1st of this year costing one user
His first messages with his now wife Reddit was what they did together
Continuing their string of just outstanding PR moves Reddit also made the iOS app icon uglier and are charging users to change it back
Also, they're bringing back r slash place the pixelated canvas all Redditors can contribute to
I for one can't wait to see all the varied illustrations of CEO Steve Huffman
Surrounded by phallic objects
Several clips showing footage of Amazon's delivery driver-facing cameras have been posted to reddit prompting concerns about worker privacy
The driver cams use AI to track the driver the speed of the vehicle and even its location data
Amazon drivers must give signed consent for their biometric data to be collected by the cameras
Presumably drivers must also sign the waiver in blood and have it witnessed by at least one demon
Google is disabling internet access for more than
2,500 employees and a pilot program aimed at reducing the risk of
Cyber attacks the workers will still have access to Google owned websites and Google's own internal network
If only because having thousands of employees forced to communicate written missives via telegram and carrier pigeon would be
Less convenient employees will apparently be allowed to opt-in or out of the pilot
Which I feel is poor experimental design Google should select a random sample of their workforce
Who get to wonder for the next few months why the only websites that are loading on their workstation are Google Drive ways and YouTube?
Are they being hacked? Are they about to be fired?
And millions of US military emails have been leaked and the culprit surprisingly is the letter I
It's like a dark Sesame Street episode See the US military uses the domain extension dot MIL
Which is only a single letter away from the country domain used by Russian ally Mali
Since 2013 a Dutch contractor managing the Mali domain has been repeatedly contacting US officials
Concerning millions of misdirected messages mostly boring routine emails
But with just a sprinkling of sensitive military intelligence including maps naval inspection reports terrorism briefings and passwords
Your emailing passwords come on
This is not Molly's fault while the military claims to block internal emails accidentally sent to a Mali and address the same contractor
Received an army general's itinerary for a diplomatic trip to Indonesia as recently as this past May
Don't worry it'll all be fine so long as no one with top-secret clearance misses a single key and accidentally emails
Molly the nuclear codes and we won't go nuclear if you don't come back on Friday for more tech news, but
We will be a tad miffed
You don't want to see that