Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: An OpenAI paper on GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, reveals some of the model’s biases, flaws, and potential malicious use cases, and the company’s safeguards  —  When OpenAI first unveiled GPT-4, its flagship text-generating AI model, the company touted the model’s multimodality — in other words … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Over a dozen senior execs left Binance over the past three months; Kaiko: Binance handled ~70% of all direct crypto trades at year’s start, now it handles ~50%  —  ‘Every battle is a do-or-die situation,’ Binance co-founder Yi He writes  —  After FTX crashed, the world of crypto seemed to belong to the largest exchange, Binance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: An OpenAI paper on GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, shows some of the biases, shortcomings, and dangers of the model, and OpenAI’s efforts to add safeguards  —  When OpenAI first unveiled GPT-4, its flagship text-generating AI model, the company touted the model’s multimodality — in other words … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Review of macOS 14 Sonoma: a better stab at usable widgets, improved password manager, promising gaming enhancements, but more features are skipping Intel Macs  —  If at first you don’t create usable desktop widgets, try, try again.  —  I was preparing to write an intro calling macOS Sonoma … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is pitching investors on a possible share sale that would value the startup at between $80B and $90B, almost triple its level earlier this year  —  Startup was valued at about $29 billion in share sale earlier this year  —  OpenAI is talking to investors about a possible share sale … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail a cross-origin attack affecting Chrome that lets a malicious site read pixels from another site; it exploits how modern GPUs compress images  —  A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: The US FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality and “return to the successful rules the Commission adopted in 2015”  —  Net neutrality is back on the menu, citizens.  After a long, long battle ending in eventual defeat during Trump’s presidency, the FCC is set to reinstate rules … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Eddie Cue’s US v. Google testimony: Cue said Google was the only “valid” search choice for a deal; the DOJ noted Apple railed against Google’s privacy policies  —  Eddy Cue, in a dark suit, peered down at the monitor in front of him.  The screens in the Washington, DC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Over half of the testimony in the Google antitrust trial so far has been given behind closed doors thanks to arguments from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others  —  Efforts to seal testimony have increasingly raised questions as the federal antitrust case enters its third week in court. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The CIA is planning to roll out a ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to open-source intelligence  —  – Intelligence agency looking for ‘needles in the needle field’  — Program will help sift through huge amounts of available data Lees verder op Tech Meme