Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.
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Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.
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Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.
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Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes
In 1982, a young Mac developer turned Jobs into a UI designer—and accidentally invented a new technique.
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Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict Redditor confessed to violating actresses' "moral rights" in landmark ruling.
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Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict
Redditor confessed to violating actresses' "moral rights" in landmark ruling.
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ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.
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ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of
Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.
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Study finds AI models store memories and logic in different neural regions Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
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Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks
Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
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New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability."
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New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games
But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability."
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Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes Early superdense star clusters may have planted seeds for monster black holes.
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Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes
Early superdense star clusters may have planted seeds for monster black holes.
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James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racists, sexist comments.
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James Watson, who helped unravel DNA’s double-helix, has died
His work was celebrated, but he was ostracized for racist, sexist comments.
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Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
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Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.
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Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year
Targeted attack could steal all of a phone's data and activate camera or mic.
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