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Meta releases Large Language Model Meta AI, or LLaMA, a foundational LLM designed to help AI researchers, available in sizes ranging from 7B to 65B parameters — As part of Meta's commitment to open science, today we are publicly releasing LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) …
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| Jon Rice / Blockworks: |
Jump Crypto recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit after Oasis upgraded a DeFi contract following a UK high court order — The Chicago trading firm appears to have recovered the 120,000 ether stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit.
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| Sam Altman / OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its preparations for “if AGI is successfully created”, including being cautious with its models and operating as if the risks are existential — Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.
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Tina's Newsletter, The New Stack, and The Verge
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans a cheaper second-gen AR/MR headset with two high-end and low-end models built by Luxcaseict and Foxconn, respectively, likely launching in 2025 — Apple's cheaper second-generation AR/VR headset will come in two high-end and low-end models, according to Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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Tweets: @mingchikuo and @neilcybart
| CyberScoop: |
A year after Russia's invasion, a look at the unprecedented cyberdefense effort by Ukraine and its allies against Russian wiper malware and other attacks — The Ukraine war has inspired a defensive cyber effort that government officials and technology executives describe as unprecedented.
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Cybersecurity …, Axios, WeLiveSecurity, CNET, Infosecurity, Nextgov, TNW, CSO, Security Affairs, DataBreachToday.com, Cybersecurity Dive, The Hacker News, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @sentinelone, @migoked, and @juanandres_gs
| Derek Willis / ProPublica: |
Politwoops, a ProPublica project that tracked and archived politicians' deleted tweets since 2012, is shutting down as the required Twitter tools no longer work — Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all.
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Canada's second-largest telecom TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a hacker put up private GitHub repositories and payroll records for sale — Canada's second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to be employee data.
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The Register, Dark Reading, IT World Canada, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Neowin
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A major outage has taken down Dish Network's websites, apps, and customer support systems; remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems — Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that's taken down the company's main websites, apps … | Bloomberg: |
Financial firms like Bank of America, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase are restricting staff use of tools like ChatGPT — Wall Street is clamping down on ChatGPT as a slew of global investment banks impose restrictions on the fast-growing technology …
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Memo: Ericsson plans to lay off 8,500 of its 105K+ employees, or 8% of its staff; in December, the company said it would cut costs by ~$880M by the end of 2023 — Telecom equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) will lay off 8,500 employees globally as part of its plan to cut costs, a memo sent to employees and seen by Reuters said.
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SiliconANGLE, Tech Xplore, USA Today, The Register, DCD, CNN, Light Reading, Neowin, CNBC, The Hill, Bloomberg, and Livemint
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
A look at the Nvidia A100, a ~$10K GPU that has become a critical tool for generative AI; Nvidia has an estimated 95% market share of machine learning GPUs — - Companies like Microsoft and Google are fighting to integrate cutting-edge AI into their search engines, as billion-dollar competitors … | Jan Wolfe / Wall Street Journal: |
The US FTC drops its administrative trial to block Meta's acquisition of Within less than a month after its federal court loss, handing a final victory to Meta — Antitrust regulator drops administrative trial to block Facebook parent's purchase of Within Unlimited
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