Tech Meme

xAI: Elon Musk’s xAI releases its AI model Grok, which it says surpasses other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users  —  Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Lees verder op Tech Meme

xAI: Elon Musk’s xAI releases its AI model Grok, which the company says surpasses “all other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5 and Inflection-1”  —  Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Okta’s autopsy report on its support system breach understated the role of a badly configured service account, the biggest contributing factor for the breach  —  If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you’re doing it wrong.  —  Identity and authentication management provider Okta … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: A look at BlizzCon 2023, the first in-person since 2019, which saw updates for WoW and more, and wasn’t sold out before the event began, unlike prior iterations  —  Tens of thousands of fans, a handful dressed up as their favorite characters from the video games Warcraft and Overwatch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at the disparity between Amazon’s drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects are delivered in perfect weather conditions  —  Amazon’s much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways.  Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Cranz / The Verge: A eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple  —  The Touch Bar was too ahead of its time.  This happens occasionally.  We finally reach the point we can make a really cool idea … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Young / AIModels.fyi: Researchers say AI models like GPT-4 respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context, because of how such models handle nuanced prompts  —  Researchers show LLMs respond with improved performance when prompted with emotional context  —  In the grand narrative … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Discord says links to files uploaded to its servers will expire after 24 hours to reduce the amount of malware distributed using its CDN, starting later in 2023  —  Discord will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to block attackers from using its CDN … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform that will be “contractually obligated” to honor creator royalties on NFT sales  —  Magic Eden’s new Ethereum NFT marketplace will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties.  What does that mean for traders? Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: Hands-on with Google’s real-time scanning in Play Protect for sideloaded apps: it didn’t restrict five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing  —  Here’s our hands-on review of the new Android security feature  —  Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect … Lees verder op Tech Meme