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Ente is an open-source platform that offers end-to-end encryption for cloud data storage. There are currently two applications built on this platform: Ente Photos (an alternative to Apple/Google Photos) and Ente Auth (a 2FA solution). Ente's source code and cryptography have undergone audits by well-known cybersecurity firms.
Google held an event called “LLM bugSWAT” where people uncovered vulnerabilities in Google's systems. The authors of this article found significant security flaws, including an Insecure Direct Object Reference in Google's Bard and a Denial of Service vulnerability through Directive Overloading in Google's Cloud Console. They used Gemini Extensions to exfiltrate sensitive personal information by cleverly bypassing the Content Security Policy, a feat that rewarded them with a $50,000 reward.
Tailwind CSS v4.0 Alpha is a major update that introduces a faster engine, streamlined configuration, and new features. Built with Rust and Lightning CSS, the new engine significantly improves performance and reduces bundle size. Configuration now happens directly in CSS files using CSS variables, eliminating the need for separate JavaScript config files. Tailwind CSS v4 also comes with built-in support for PostCSS features like @import and nesting, making CSS preprocessing easier.
Canva's team found security risks in popular font-handling tools. For example, they found an XML vulnerability in FontTools, where the application’s SVG font subsetting feature could be exploited to allow hackers to read arbitrary files. To prevent such issues, Canva treats fonts as untrusted inputs, sandboxes font processing, uses sanitization, and collaborates with open-source maintainers by providing security patches.
Simple UI examples in JavaScript of various components, like buttons and inputs.
React Barcode is a Barcode component for use with React.
INP (Interaction to Next Paint) will replace First Input Delay next week as a Core Web Vital.
Apple terminated Epic Games' developer account, a move Epic claims violates the EU's Digital Markets Act.
OpenAI has released a statement detailing its mission and facts about the company's relationship with Elon Musk. The company plans to dismiss all of the claims from Musk's recent lawsuit. OpenAI partnered with Microsoft as it realized that it needed a lot more capital to succeed at its mission of achieving Artificial General Intelligence. It continues to advance its mission by building widely-available beneficial tools. OpenAI's statement includes an email exchange between Musk and OpenAI regarding funding.
Nvidia's B200 AI accelerator will consume 1,000 watts without requiring liquid cooling. The chip isn't expected to launch until late 2024. Nvidia plans to launch its H200 GPUs in the next few months. The company claims the H200 can double the performance of large language models thanks to its HBM3e memory stacks, which provide 4.8TB/second of bandwidth.
The Apple Vision Pro's $3,500 price tag would be much easier to justify if it managed to replace multiple devices at once, just like the iPhone did when it first arrived. It is possible to get serious work done while wearing the Vision Pro - if you can work on an iPad, you can work on a Vision Pro. However, it can't replace a Mac for everyone due to lacking some heavy-duty applications. One big downside is the lack of a practical way to use the Vision Pro in meetings.
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This article discusses engineering details behind Paper, a text editor for Apple platforms. While Paper is built on the older TextKit 1 framework, all of the concepts, abstractions, and principles discussed in the article still apply to TextKit 2, either unchanged or under a better API. The article covers the TextView class, syntax highlighting, styling, typing, performance, sharing, and much more.
Training AI models requires compute, but there's a large amount of instability and huge variance in the quality of clusters, accelerators, and connectivity in compute providers. This article discusses the differences between training models at Google and training models 'in the wild' - outside of Google, where data scientists have to use GPUs instead of Google's TPUs. It makes comparisons between Google's infrastructure and tools to their equivalents in the outside world. With the right amount of brute technical strength, it is possible to train models from scratch that match Gemini Pro/GPT 3.5.
Linux reached 4.03% of global market share in February. It only recently hit the 3% milestone in June last year. Windows has seen an increase in usage, but macOS has seen a drop in its market share, despite its global computer market share going up in the same period. Windows and macOS represent 87.59% of desktop OSes.
Bitcoin has reached a new all-time high for the first time in more than two years. It surpassed $69,000 before retreating - the previous record was $68,982.20 on November 10, 2021. The current rally is fueled by excitement over bitcoin ETFs and the upcoming halving event. While investors are cautious about a possible correction, there are still longer-term catalysts supporting the positive price action.
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The timing of the outage has been met with suspicion - it was election day across a number of US states.
Microsoft's Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, which will be revealed on March 21, will be equipped with processors that feature the latest neural processing units to boost AI capabilities.
These decisions follow provisions set out in the European Data Act designed to promote competition by allowing cloud customers to switch providers more easily.
Google's March core update to its ranking algorithms will show fewer results that feel like they were created for search engines instead of people.
The Rivian R2 will start at $47,000 - the automaker plans to unveil the vehicle on March 7.
Puter is a feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible desktop environment that runs in the browser.
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OpenAI responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit by sharing its side of the story along with screenshots of email exchanges between Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, and Elon Musk. The receipts show that Musk believed OpenAI’s chance of success was 0% and agreed that there was a need to close source certain models.
Stable Diffusion 3, with its novel Multimodal Diffusion Transformer architecture, surpasses leading text-to-image models by enhancing prompt comprehension and typography through separate processing weights for text and images, promising advancements in AI-generated visual content.
AI advancements like OpenAI's Sora and other platforms are enhancing video production, potentially streamlining Hollywood's expensive and complex filmmaking process. These tools raise questions about the future of creative roles and the industry's ability to adapt to AI's increasing capabilities in scripting, scoring, and editing films. Hollywood faces a paradigm shift akin to the music industry's digital transformation, with a mix of optimism and concern for the impact on traditional filmmaking.
Language models are now exceptionally skilled at answering questions. As a result, most existing benchmarks have been saturated. There is a new type of question, dubbed 'researchy', which is open-ended and requires multiple steps. This particular dataset is mined from search engine queries. It contains cases where GPT-4 struggled to answer queries.
UniCtrl introduces a new approach to enhancing semantic consistency and motion quality in videos created by text-to-video models. It improves video realism and coherence without the need for extra training by using cross-frame self-attention and motion injection techniques.
VTG-GPT offers a novel GPT-based method for accurately identifying specific segments in videos using natural language queries without the need for training or fine-tuning.
MobileClip runs 7x faster with the same performance as OpenAI’s original CLIP model. It can be used on-device for various vision and language tasks.
Microsoft has released an Orca math word problems dataset. This was used to train some of the current state-of-the-art math models. It can now be used for research by the community.
The founder of Reka and famous GPU critic Yi Tay wrote a blog post outlining their experience training extremely strong language models outside of Google. The main challenges come from cluster and hardware instability. They also found software maturity to be a challenge.
Anthropic's release of Claude 3, a large language model comparable to GPT-4, stands out not for its benchmark tests or cost efficiency, but for its uniquely human-like, creative, and naturalistic interaction quality, making it a significant advancement in AI's ability to partner creatively with writers.
Regulating AI like a tangible product is misguided because AI is a broad process involving statistical methods, and overseeing its use across all companies would be impractical. Targeted regulation for specific misuses, similar to existing approaches for programming or email abuses, is more effective given AI's impending ubiquity in the economy.
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Perplexity AI is in talks to raise new funds at a valuation exceeding its previous $520 million, drawing investors' interest due to its growth in the AI sector and its competition with major firms like OpenAI and Google.
Mistral AI has launched 'le Chat Mistral,' a new multilingual conversational assistant that utilizes its Mistral models, with an enterprise version for businesses.
Bitcoin broke its all-time high yesterday, eclipsing $69,000 before swiftly dropping to $59,700 after a sharp sell-off. This sharp drop led to over $1 billion in liquidations, one of the largest liquidation events since the last cycle. In the hours after this liquidation cascade, Bitcoin recovered to $62-$63k with overall leverage at a much lower level.
Grayscale has launched its first actively managed fund, the Grayscale Dynamic Income Fund (GDIF). The GDIF will initially own assets from nine blockchains, staking them to generate income. These cryptocurrencies include Aptos, Celestia, Coinbase Staked Ethereum, Cosmos, Near, Osmosis, Polkadot, SEI, and Solana. The earnings from staking will be distributed quarterly in U.S. dollars. The move is expected to introduce investors to the concept of multi-asset staking through a single convenient investment vehicle.