Venture Beast
AUGUST 30, 2020
GUEST: I remember it fondly … long road trips with my family and hours in the car, with Tetris on my brother’s Game Boy keeping us company. Clearing line after line, nailing a Tetris whenever I could, having that iconic music loop in my head for hours until the batteries died … for many of us, this was our first experience with Te… Read More.
TechSpot
AUGUST 30, 2020
The most recent leak is brought to us courtesy of Zotac, who appears to have briefly listed several of its GeForce graphics cards based on Ampere. The leak, along with some renders, were spotted by a pair of Twitter users.
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Fountainhead
AUGUST 30, 2020
I’ve spent the past few weeks busy evaluating team performance for our semi-annual review process. And every year, I take it more seriously because every year I realize how much more important *people* are to the company. I used to think this was a throw-away comment - but hiring, developing, promoting and rewarding the “A” players is the difference between a high-performing company, and all the other average players.
Venture Beast
AUGUST 30, 2020
Asssigning people to priority projects as needed -- rather than having them 'own' a project -- is an antifragility measure companies need to survive today. Read More.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
The Verge
AUGUST 30, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Cloudflare said its Sunday morning outage affecting numerous websites was due to an IP outage by internet service provider CenturyLink. According to a tweet from CenturyLink, all affected services have been restored as of 11:15AM ET. “Today we saw a widespread Internet outage online that impacted many multiple providers,” a Cloudflare representative said in an email to The Verge.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
Park authorities in Zimbabwe are investigating the mysterious death of 11 elephants in the western region of the country after ruling out cyanide poisoning and poaching, according to a Sunday Associated Press report. Read more.
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TechSpot
AUGUST 30, 2020
In the current age of remote working, more people are relying on team collaboration tools and Slack is one of the top services in the category. A security vulnerability in the service's desktop app, which is now fixed, could have caused major problems. In the wrong hands, the exploit would.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
At times, we’ve come to you with stories about security researchers being paid thousands—and in some cases hundreds of thousands —of dollars by companies for finding critical bugs in well-known software or hardware. However, this time, the story is different. It’s about a company that was stingy, and that’s not cool. Read more.
GeekWire
AUGUST 30, 2020
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 23, 2020. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire. Zillow report fuels talk of ‘mass exodus’ in San Francisco, but other markets not seeing urban flight.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
If you’ve come to Lev Grossman from his most popular work , The Magicians series of novels, his newest is going to be something of a departure. The Silver Arrow is his first middle-grade book, a story of an 11-year-old girl named Kate and an enchanted train given to her as a gift by her eccentric uncle. But even though… Read more.
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The Verge
AUGUST 30, 2020
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A Sunday tweet from Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) showing a video of activist Ady Barkan got a “manipulated media” label from Twitter. Barkan has ALS and speaks through voice assistance. In the video , a conversation between Barkan and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Barkan asks “But do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?
Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
It might not seem like it since time is all out of whack during the pandemic, but in a few short weeks, it will be fall. Anyone else have trouble knowing what month, or day, it is? Read more.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
2020 seems like a good year to take up new hobbies. Let’s take that nice, collectible action figure collection you might have. Why not make it a bit more impressive? Read more.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
Considering, y’know, the coronavirus. Read more.
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Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
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Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
Widespread internet outages knocked down Cloudflare, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Amazon, Hulu, and a slew of other sites on Sunday morning, and it’s apparently all because of a single internet service provider: CenturyLink. Read more.
Gizmodo
AUGUST 30, 2020
China has something to say about the potential deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations: not so fast. Read more.
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