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Over a hundred TSMC engineers have been poached by Chinese chip makers

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Quanxin Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (QXIC) was founded in 2019, while Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (HSMC) was founded in 2017. Neither are producing competitive products yet, but both have received several billion dollars from the state to accelerate their development. They’re also both led by former TSMC executives.

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Bald eagle takes out EGLE’s drone because it’s 2020 and irony is dead

The Verge

Don’t eff with this bird | Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images. A bald eagle beat the crap out of a government drone mapping the shoreline of Lake Michigan, ripping off its propeller and sending it plunging to the lake’s bottom, according to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. Yes. The agency operating the drone murdered by an eagle goes by the acronym EGLE.

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How Wargaming overcame mistakes and reclaimed the future of World of Tanks

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World of Tanks has racked up more than 200 million registered players in the past 10 years, but it hasn't all been easy for Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi. Read More.

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A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. College student Liam Porr used the language-generating AI tool GPT-3 to produce a fake blog post that recently landed in the No. 1 spot on Hacker News, MIT Technology Review reported. Porr was trying to demonstrate that the content produced by GPT-3 could fool people into believing it was written by a human. And, he told MIT Technology Review , “it was super easy, actually, which was the scary part.”.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Russell Kirsch, the computer scientist who invented the pixel, has passed away

TechSpot

Russell Kirsch was born in 1929, and after graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, moved onto Harvard and MIT to further his education. Kirsch would then embark on a career as a computer scientist during the 1950s at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, back then known.

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IBM unveils Power10 processor for big data analytics and AI workloads

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At the Hot Chips 2020 virtual conference, IBM unveiled the Power10, its first commercial 7-nanometer processor, manufactured by Samsung. Read More.

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Key moments in Kamala Harris’ history with Silicon Valley

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A look at Kamala Harris history with tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Uber, and her influence on tech policy matters over the span of the past decade. Read More.

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The Biggest Unanswered Questions About a Covid-19 Vaccine

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A vaccine for the coronavirus that causes covid-19 appears to be our best strategy to ending the current pandemic. Unfortunately, the fastest time frame in which scientists have managed to create any vaccine in history was four years, and there’s already plenty of skepticism surrounding the safety, availability, and… Read more.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 9, 2020

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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. 9, 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. Seattle business leaders ask city to reconsider tax after Amazon polls employees about relocation.

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Yale Is Working on a Cheap Coronavirus Saliva Test, and the NBA Is Giving It Spit

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The Yale School of Public Health on Saturday received emergency regulatory authorization for a new covid-19 diagnostic test that detects the novel coronavirus using saliva samples instead of samples from nasopharyngeal swabs. Next, it wants to find out if the test can be used to detect cases in asymptomatic… Read more.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Deception and Forensics for the Next Generation – Part 6: Exploring a Threat from Outside

SecureWorld News

Last time , we looked for a phantom attacker from inside the deception network and found that it was not an attack at all but, rather, was the normal activity of our AlienVault UTM scanning the internal network. Had we gone further, we could have whitelisted the UTM and we would not have seen the phantom attacks in the future. This is a common occurrence, and we can whitelist any device that shows up as false positive activity in the deception net.

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Lovecraft Country Showrunner Misha Green Discusses the Power of Horror and the Horror of Marginalization

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In a new interview, Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green ( Underground ) goes deep on some of the intriguing, powerful ideas behind the upcoming show. Read more.

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Go Read This Washington Post report about race problems at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

The Verge

Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images. Facebook has come under heavy criticism over the past year for how the social media behemoth has fumbled its approach to civil rights issues on the platform. A recent audit found that despite recent steps to expand its policies and prohibit discrimination, Facebook continues to undermine its own progress. A new report from The Washington Post digs into the ways the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the philanthropic organization founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuck

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CBS All Access might become Paramount+ because originality is overrated

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We’ve been hearing for a few months that ViacomCBS wants to completely rebrand the CBS All Access streaming service, turning it into a proper Netflix/Hulu/Disney/Amazon/Apple/HBO/Quibi competitor rather than just the dedicated home of The Good Fight , The Twilight Zone , and the various Star Trek shows. We’ve already… Read more.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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At Walmart, Get Some Popular Nintendo Switch Titles For $50

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | $50 | Walmart Luigi’s Mansion 3 | $50 | Walmart Animal Crossing: New Horizons | $50 | Walmart Read more.

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George Miller Isn't Sure Whether Furiosa Would Stay a Hero or Turn Tyrant After Mad Max: Fury Road

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What happens after you win? Read more.

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David Sandberg Shares Silly Trailer for Some Very Early Reviews of the Not-Yet-Filmed Shazam 2

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It’s never too early to start doing good publicity. Read more.

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Get Back Into a Routine With a Fitbit One Fitness Tracker, Now $70 Off

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Fitbit One Wireless Activity Plus Sleep Tracker | $180 | DailySteals Read more.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Save Big on Kindle Sci-Fi and Fantasy eBooks, Today Only

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Sci-Fi and Fantasy Must Reads | Amazon Kindle Store Read more.

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Elections, Summer Blockbusters, And Roach-Infested Computers: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Gizmodo

The fact that we’re already halfway through August defies explanation. I feel like these past few months will go down as “the summer that never was” given the distinct lack of summer things available to most folks. Beach day? Forget about it. Cookouts? You better be social distancing around that grill. Water park?… Read more.

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Donald Trump, the 'Professional at Technology,' Is Now on TikTok Rival Triller

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In case we needed further proof that President Donald Trump really does not like TikTok, here’s the latest: Trump and his team have created a verified account on TikTok rival Triller, and are apparently trying to figure out how video-sharing apps work. Read more.

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