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Microsoft will change how 'Call of Duty' is sold

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Low-wage workers' wages surged after decades of slow growth

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The current business cycle is a notable reversal of fortune for lower-wage workers in the U.S....
The current business cycle is a notable reversal of fortune for lower-wage workers in the U.S. labor market. Between 1979 and 2019, low- and middle-wage workers in the U.S. labor market experienced only a few short years of strong growth in real (inflation-adjusted) wages. But, between 2019 and 2023, workers in the ...
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Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 years in prison for $5M fraud

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A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to five years and three months...
A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for stealing a total of more than $5 million from those companies.Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud in the case in December, stole more than $4.9 million from Facebook "utilizing a scheme invo...

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Anvil – Acme inspired text editor written in Go

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I'm Bearish OpenAI

substack.com

At its spring demo day on Monday, OpenAI unveiled its latest flagship model, GPT-4o. The model...
At its spring demo day on Monday, OpenAI unveiled its latest flagship model, GPT-4o. The model itself is impressive:And some of the demo videos are literally breathtaking:Couple this with the news that OpenAI is nearing a deal to put ChatGPT’s technology into the iPhone, and it seems like there are plenty of reasons...
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Android 15 improves standby battery life by up to 3 hours on some devices

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Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity

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Get Yourself a /dev/lunch

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EU is pushing Meta to end online anonymity, push for Digital ID

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GPT-4o's Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites

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The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% are in non-English languages, says...
The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% are in non-English languages, says Deedy Das, an AI investor at Menlo Ventures. He used language filters to count the number of tokens in different languages, and the top languages, besides English, are Russian, Arabic, and Vietnamese. “So the tokenizer’s ...

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Building a Crystal Clear Whiteboard (2013)

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[Michael Peshkin] teaches mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. He likes to use diagrams to illustrate his...
[Michael Peshkin] teaches mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. He likes to use diagrams to illustrate his point, but he also likes to face his students when doing so. His solution was to develop this clear whiteboard which ends up unlocking a lot more than just some hand-drawn schematics. It’s a bit ha...
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VW and Renault end talks to develop affordable EV

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How to Turn Off AI Overviews When Searching

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Highway 1 to Big Sur Has Reopened

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Updated 8:40 a.m. Friday “When will Highway 1 reopen?” For months, that’s been the question for...
Updated 8:40 a.m. Friday “When will Highway 1 reopen?” For months, that’s been the question for many Bay Area residents hoping to drive south to visit Big Sur — the remote coastal region cut off since March 30, when a rockslide forced the closure of this iconic stretch of road. Now, there’s an answer. The affected p...

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The Delta Emulator is changing its logo after Adobe threatened it

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Delta Emulator is abandoning its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark — because Adobe thinks...
Delta Emulator is abandoning its current logo for a different, yet-to-be-revealed mark — because Adobe thinks Delta’s stylized letter “D” is a bit too close to its stylized letter “A” for comfort. It’s not every day you see an app changelog that includes news of a legal threat, but get a load of this:“Adobe threaten...
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ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F#

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Apple geofences third-party browser engine work for EU devices

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Test Scores Down, GPAs Up: The New Angst over Grade Inflation

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The Vietnamese Computer Scientist Who Made Toy Story Possible

time.com

You have probably already seen the work of Bùi Tường Phong. A Vietnamese computer scientist working...
You have probably already seen the work of Bùi Tường Phong. A Vietnamese computer scientist working in the United States in 1973, Bùi developed the Phong shading and reflection algorithms, which have been ubiquitous in computer-generated movies and 3D video games for the last 50 years. Bùi’s algorithms excelled at d...
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iOS 17.5 Bug May Also Resurface Deleted Photos on Wiped, Sold Devices

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Reddit reintroduces its awards system

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Apps 26 mins ago Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature...
Apps 26 mins ago Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature that borrows concepts from others — in this case, BeReal and Snapchat. The company is developing a feature… Startups 2 hours ago Welcome to Startups Weekly! We’ve been drowning in AI news this week, with Google’s I/O setting the pa...
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OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on...
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023.Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI has disbanded its team focused on the long-term risks of artificial intelligence just one year after the company announced the group, a person familiar with the situ...

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HIV Life Cycle – animated and narrated [video]

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"Unprecedented" Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups

arstechnica.com

Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud's biggest blunders...
Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud's biggest blunders ever: Google's Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason. UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire ac...
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