Sat.Mar 22, 2025

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Cool Site Shows Exactly Which Books Zuckerberg's Minions Illegally Downloaded to Train Meta's AI

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For all the revolutionary change artificial intelligence promises, it also makes lofty demands. For starters, AI is extraordinarily power hungry. Generating all the electricity that AI datacenters consume takes forest-loads of energy, not to mention hardware and cooling infrastructure. That stuff all costs a lot, making AI a huge money pit. That's had a big effect on our economy, as the tiniest bit of AI hype can send huge shockwaves through Wall Street and beyond.

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CVE-2025-29927 – Next.js

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Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability CVE-2025-29927.

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Texas private school’s use of new ‘AI tutor’ rockets student test scores to top 2% in the country

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A Texas private school is seeing student test scores soar to new heights following the implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI) "tutor.

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How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It

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Documents and insiders reveal how one of the worlds major money laundering networks operates.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook For Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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The 20 hottest open source startups of 2024

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A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. The report is the handiwork of European venture capital firm Runa Capital, which has operated the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index since 2020.

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The Cybernetic Teammate

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Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience

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Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs

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Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.

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OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

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WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.

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Facebook to stop targeting ads at UK woman after legal fight

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Tanya O'Carroll says her case opens a "gateway" for others wanting to stop personalised adverts.

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Thinking About Thinking—How AI Reshapes Cognition

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What happens when intelligence moves beyond the boundaries of the brain? This is the first post in a series.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI

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'Watch the Skies' -- released in its native country as UFO Sweden -- was shot in Swedish but will look like it was made in English.

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‘Gradually then suddenly’: Is AI job displacement following this pattern?

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Whether by automating tasks, serving as copilots or generating text, images, video and software from plain English, AI is rapidly altering how we work. Yet, for all the talk about AI revolutionizing jobs, widespread workforce displacement has yet to happen.

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Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R&D

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AIs biggest impact will come from broad labor automationnot R&Ddriving economic growth through scale, not scientific breakthroughs.

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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’

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Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless AI-generated nonsense.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Rest Easy

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The Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov once said of writers, And to write and write, like a wheel or a machine, tomorrow, the day after, on holidays; summer will comeand he must still be writi.

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I use ChatGPT to hit my fitness and exercise goals – here are 7 prompts to help you get in shape using AI

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When it comes to staying on top of your health, theres a wealth of technology out there that can give you a boost.

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Mindfulness mediates the association between chronotype and depressive symptoms

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Background Chronotype influences risk of depression, with evening-types at higher risk, although the reasons for this are uncertain. Potential mediating factors include mindfulness, sleep quality, rumination, and alcohol consumption, but research is lacking. Methods We explored the role of these factors in the association between chronotype and depressive symptoms amongst young adults, using cross-sectional data collected from a university student sample (N = 546).

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OpenAI and Meta Seek AI Alliance With India’s Reliance

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OpenAI executives in recent months have spoken multiple times with their counterparts at Reliance Industries, which owns the worlds largest oil

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Data Engineering Requires Human+Machine Fusion

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We sit at the point of an extended automation revolution where basic RPA software robots look like legacy relics from a bygone era, before modern AI.

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Cambridge researchers unveil faster and more accurate AI weather system that rivals supercomputers

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The speed and efficiency of modern forecasting systems are vital, as traditional methods rely on powerful supercomputers and extensive teams of experts, often requiring several hours to produce forecasts.

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WWI's 'Dazzle' Camouflage Seemed Effective Due to Unexpected Optical Trick

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A reanalysis of a 1919 study suggests that a separate illusion, the "horizon effect," played a bigger role in warping visual perception than dazzle paint.

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I'm a published author and I tested Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3 at creative writing — here's my verdict

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Claude and Grok have both been winning plaudits for their creative writing ability so here's what happens when a published author critiques their work.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices: DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor

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ChatGPT Use Could Correlate With Higher Levels of Loneliness

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Users who were classified as more prone to emotional attachment were more likely to report increased loneliness in response to frequent personal conversations with the chatbot.

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A sodium-ion portable power bank comes to market

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A better battery is finally here.

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I tested the future of AI image generation. It’s astoundingly fast.

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One of the core problems with AI is the notoriously high power and computing demand, especially for tasks such as media generation.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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After racing around the pole for the last several months, the polar vortex is ready for a break. Will this break be temporary, or is it done for the season? Read on to find out.

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I generated 5 AI images with the new Ideogram 2a model — and the results truly surprised me

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Image generation is the veteran tech of AI.

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Meta pirated at least 101 of my books, and others

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And they knew perfectly well what they were doing

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OpenAI and Meta Seek AI Alliance With India’s Reliance

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OpenAI executives in recent months have spoken multiple times with their counterparts at Reliance Industries, which owns the worlds largest oil

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?