meta has unveiled the second version of their llama large language model and
even better managed not to leak at this time I'm Riley Murdoch this is
techlinked and according to meta llama 2 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 million human annotations probably left over from when
they programmed Mark Zuckerberg he seems more human recently does Jujitsu yeah
they've improved his uh they've improved his model meta claims llama 2 is open source but
the open source initiative is calling BS because Mida Mida I was Australian for a
second there Mira doesn't allow Lama 2
licensees 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 llama2 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 dank meme but just like the force there's a dark
side to llm's being open source a black hat hacker recently used an open model
called gptj to release worm GPT which is
like Chachi PT but without ethics and with an unhealthy enthusiasm for
creating malware is there
right you know I was just gonna say everything in moderation a cyber
security expert at nordvpn called it Chachi BT's evil twin and as if we
didn't have enough AI stuff to worry about now I have an image of a chatbot
with a goatee in my head it's very unsettling Intel announced earlier this
week that it's nuk 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 this is
already my favorite episode ASUS will get a non-exclusive license to Intel's
next unit of computing or knock product designs this will allow ASUS to
manufacture 10th gen to 13th gen nox systems and maybe even develop later
designs based on team Blue's future processors ASUS will even establish a
new business unit for the Nook called ASUS nuk bu which of course is an
anagram for CU you ass bun and see you
as unbus which is for English 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 designs indicating that ASUS has big plans for the nut 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 development
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 Trustmark is intended to raise security standards and give users Peace
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quick bitter Norway has issued a three-month ban against meta starting
August 4th that Barr's 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 free to oh 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 9 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 her charging users to change it back also They're bringing back our
slash place the pixelated canvas all redditors can contribute to well that's
kind of cool I for one can't wait to see all the varied illustrations of CEO
Steve Huffman surrounded by phallic objects it's probably
probably going to happen 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 2500 employees in 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 Waze and YouTube are they being hacked
are they about to be fired is
this and millions of U.S military emails have been leaked and the culprit
surprisingly is the letter i it's like a dark Sesame Street episode
see the U.S 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 U.S 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
you're emailing passwords come on we've
got bigger problems yeah this is not Molly's fault while the
military claims to block internal emails accidentally sent to a Malian address
the same contractor received an army General's itinerary for a diplomatic
trip to Indonesia as recently as this past May
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