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Why scalpers can get tickets

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Ticketmaster's "Verified Fan" system doesn't help fans. It helps scalpers who have hundreds of accounts, use special internet browsers, and have dozens of credit cards.

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First ever AI-written poetry anthology is bleak and alarming: ‘I have the power to end your world’

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“I AM CODE” is the first-ever poetry anthology featuring poems written entirely by AI — and it does little to assuage any fears we might have about the rise of the robots.

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FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023

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FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this fall.

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A catalogue of genetic mutations to help pinpoint the cause of diseases

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We've released a catalogue of ‘missense’ mutations where researchers can learn more about what effect they may have. Missense variants are genetic mutations that can affect the function of human proteins. In some cases, they can lead to diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell anaemia, or cancer. The AlphaMissense catalogue was developed using AlphaMissense, our new AI model which classifies missense variants.

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Machine Learning Experiment Tracking Using MLflow

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Introduction The area of machine learning (ML) is rapidly expanding and has applications across many different sectors. Keeping track of machine learning experiments using MLflow and managing the trials required to construct them gets harder as they get more complicated. This can result in many problems for data scientists, such as: Given the above challenges, […] The post Machine Learning Experiment Tracking Using MLflow appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Auto-Regressive Next-Token Predictors Are Universal Learners

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Large language models display remarkable capabilities in logical and mathematical reasoning, allowing them to solve complex tasks. Interestingly, these abilities emerge in networks trained on the simple task of next-token prediction. In this work, we present a theoretical framework for studying auto-regressive next-token predictors. We demonstrate that even simple models such as linear next-token predictors, trained on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data, can approximate any function efficiently compute

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Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report

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You probably won’t be targeted by spyware, but if you are, odds are you won’t know about it. The latest spyware slips in unseen through online ads as you go about your digital life.

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If you wouldn’t take advice from a parrot, don’t listen to ChatGPT: Putting the tool to the test

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ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since OpenAI revealed the beta version of its advanced chatbot. OpenAI also released a free ChatGPT app for iPhones and iPads, putting the tool directly in consumers’ hands.

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EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access

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The European Commission has fined Intel €376 million for paying PC manufacturers to limit or delay products using AMD CPUs. Intel's restrictions included payments to HP, Acer and Lenovo.

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India fails to re-establish communication with its Moon probe

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New Delhi, Sep 22 (EFE).- The Indian space agency reported on Friday that it tried, without success so far, to re-establish communication with the probe it sent a month ago to the south pole of the Moon, ending the hope that the vehicle could withstand the low temperatures of the lunar night.

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0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt

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Last week Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), in partnership with The Citizen Lab, discovered an in-the-wild 0-day exploit chain for iPhones. Developed by the commercial surveillance vendor, Intellexa, this exploit chain is used to install its Predator spyware surreptitiously onto a device.In response, yesterday, Apple patched the bugs in iOS 16.7 and iOS 17.0.1 as CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41993.

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Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all

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Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit trained 120 volunteers worldwide to suppress thoughts about negative events that worried them, and found that not

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The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is

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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models

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Wowed by a new paper I just read and wish I had thought to write myself. Lukas Berglund and others, led by Owain Evans, asked a simple, powerful, elegant question: can LLMs trained on A is B infer automatically that B is A?

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The Design System Ecosystem

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What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a well-considered architecture? What's required and what's optional? Hold onto your butts, because we're going to go deep on this one.

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Will AI end education as we know it? Economist predicts schools, teachers could become 'obsolete'

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With the surge in growth of artificial intelligence, fears over the new technology have experts weighing in on what impact it will have on U.S. education. One economist warned that the technology will eventually lead to the elimination of teaching.

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Blocking Visual Studio Code embedded reverse shell before it's too late

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Visual studio code tunnel Introduction Since July 2023, Microsoft is offering the perfect reverse shell, embedded inside Visual Studio Code, a widely used …

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School Surveillance Tools Are Harming Kids

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Students and teachers alike say monitoring software and internet filtering tools are disproportionally harming LGTB+ students and students with disabilities.

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How much energy does AI use compared to humans? Surprising study ignites controversy

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AI’s carbon footprint is no open-and-shut case, according to scientists from the University of California-Irvine and MIT, who published a paper earlier this year on the open access site arXiv.

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AI Should Be Decentralized, But How?

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The case for greater transparency and verifiability in AI. But is decentralization the best way to achieve that and is feasible in practice? Jesus Rodriguez, of IntoTheBlock, says the technical challenges are tremendous.

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How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate

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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.

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Latest Prompt Engineering Technique Chain-Of-Verification Does A Sleek Job Of Keeping Generative AI Honest And Upright

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I have a quick question for you. Is it true that Abraham Lincoln said that the problem of believing what you read on the Internet is due to the difficulty of verifying what you find there? I’m sure that you would agree with me that Abraham Lincoln said no such thing.

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Luiz André Barroso has died

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Brazilian engineer Luiz André Barroso, who ripped up the rulebook at Google, has died. His radical ideas for data centers laid the foundations for cloud computing.

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Integrated Information Theory labelled pseudoscience

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Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention. Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention.

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The WebP 0day

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Early last week, Google released a new stable update for Chrome. The update included a single security fix that was reported by Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) team.

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Tesla buys German railway line, now hosting passenger trains

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BERLIN — Electric vehicle maker Tesla has opened its railway line east of Berlin to passenger trains designed for use by workers at its new ‘Gigafactory’ east of the German capital. Trains started running on Sept. 4, and are free of charge and available to all passengers whether Tesla employees or not.

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UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users

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The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.

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Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence

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The global IT giant was on the verge of acquiring the cybersecurity firm when it discovered inaccuracies in its ARR, which SentinelOne ultimately announced when it published its first quarter results in early June

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Wine's True Origins Are Finally Revealed

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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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The year Lou Reed gave up on music

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Between quitting the Velvet Underground and writing “Walk on the Wild Side,” the singer endured a long stretch of doubt, frustration and failure.

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Authors sue OpenAI for using their works without proper licensing

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The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot.

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