The Daily Index — Wednesday, May 29, 2024 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI TRAINING ITS NEXT MAJOR AI MODEL, FORMS NEW SAFETY COMMITTEE

OpenAI has announced the formation of a new Safety and Security Committee to oversee risk management for its projects and operations. The company recently began training its next frontier model. The new Safety and Security Committee will be responsible for making recommendations about AI safety to the full company board of directors. It will be responsible for processes and safeguards related to alignment research, protecting children, upholding election integrity, assessing societal impacts, and implementing security measures.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

OPENAI SAFETY BOARD

OpenAI formed a Safety and Security Committee after announcing the training of its new foundation model. This committee will be tasked with issuing recommendations to the board about actions to take as model capabilities continue to improve.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

INTRODUCING THE CSS ANCHOR POSITIONING API

The new CSS Anchor Positioning API allows native positioning of elements relative to anchors you define. You can set up anchors implicitly or explicitly and then position other elements relative to them using the anchor() function. The API also allows for centering elements with anchor-center, anchoring to multiple elements, positioning with inset-area, and sizing elements with anchor-size().

developer.chrome.com · 11 min

TLDR InfoSec

2.8 MILLION IMPACTED BY DATA BREACH AT PRESCRIPTION SERVICES FIRM SAV-RX

Pharmacy prescription services provider Sav-Rx is notifying around 2.8 million individuals that their personal information was compromised in a cyberattack on October 8, 2023. The compromised information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, eligibility data, and insurance identification numbers.

securityweek.com · 3 min

TLDR Crypto

GNOSIS PAY PARTNERS VISA TO CONNECT WEB3 ECOSYSTEMS WITH TRADITIONAL PAYMENTS

Gnosis Pay has partnered with Visa to connect Safe self-custody smart accounts to Visa debit cards. This card will allow users to spend an onchain account at any merchant that accepts Visa. The feature will be available first in European markets.

finextra.com · 3 min

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AN ANONYMOUS SOURCE SHARED THOUSANDS OF LEAKED GOOGLE SEARCH API DOCUMENTS WITH ME; EVERYONE IN SEO SHOULD SEE THEM

API documentation from Google Search was recently leaked. The 2,500-page document contained 14,014 attributes that appear to come from Google's internal Content API Warehouse. While it doesn't show things like the weight of particular elements in the search ranking algorithm or prove which elements are used in the ranking systems, it shows incredible details about the data Google collects. This article looks at the leak and extracts some of the most interesting details, for example, how Google utilized cookie history, logged-in Chrome data, and pattern detection to fight manual and automated click spam.

sparktoro.com · 32 min

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NEURALINK RIVAL SETS BRAIN-CHIP RECORD WITH 4,096 ELECTRODES ON HUMAN BRAIN

Precision Neuroscience claims to have set a new record for the number of neuron-tapping electrodes placed on a living human's brain at 4,096. The high density of electrodes allowed neuroscientists to map the activity of neurons at an unprecedented resolution during a surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. Precision's device sits on top of the brain and does not penetrate the brain at all. It consists of a film that contains 1,024 electrodes embedded in a lattice pattern. The device is modular, allowing for multiple films to be used at once - four devices were used during the surgery.

arstechnica.com · 2 min

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WILL SCALING SOLVE ROBOTICS?

Over 900 people attended last year's Conference on Robot Learning, which featured 11 workshops and almost 200 accepted papers. One of the largest debates at the event was whether training a large neural network on a very large data set was a feasible way to solve robotics. This post presents the different sides of the argument to deepen people's understanding of the debate. Scaling has worked for other similar fields. However, it is impractical as there isn't much robotics data available and there's no clear way to get it. Even if scaling works as well as in other fields, it likely still won't solve robotics.

spectrum.ieee.org · 15 min

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DOING IS NORMALLY DISTRIBUTED, LEARNING IS LOG-NORMAL

A process taking two, three, or five times as long as estimated is much more common when learning is involved. It is almost never the case in software development that you know all or even most of the technical hurdles that you will face in the process of development. This throws everything we know about traditional project management into disarray. Knowing your tooling and having enough experience can help you provide better estimates.

hiandrewquinn.github.io · 3 min