CTOvision
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Read George Anadiotis explain how Chainlink is offering a new general-purpose secure compute framework on ZDNet: A deep technical development, with potentially far-reaching, albeit not obvious repercussions. That’s how we […].
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
The SolarWinds drama just won’t stop. It’s a tale of Russian hackers—and potentially Chinese hackers—alleged email spying, and a gaping hole of security vulnerabilities that seems to get worse as more details come to light. Now, we can add yet another twist to the story: the laughably insecure password… Read more.
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Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
The NLP application ecosystem is in its earliest stages, and it's not yet clear whether GPT-3 or a different model will be the foundation. Read More.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of the economy and culture of a community? And what does the outcome say about the tech giant’s larger impact on the world? This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the double-edged sword of the company’s rapidly expanding fulfillment and distribution network, through the lens of its large footprint in Southern California’s Inland Empire.
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.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
There’s no doubt that pandemic fatigue is high. I get it. Heck, my area has restrictions right now. But it’s important to remember that there are ways that we can get together as a community while being safe and considerate of others. If you need an example, check out the more than 200,000 Buddhists that got together… Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $650 million Facebook class action privacy settlement and ordered the 1.6 million members of the class in Illinois who submitted claims to be paid “as expeditiously as possible.”. Chicago attorney Jay Edelson sued Facebook in Cook County Circuit Court back in 2015, alleging that the platform’s use of facial recognition tagging was not allowed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Microsoft is finalizing its Xbox Game Streaming app for Windows PCs, which includes access to streaming games from the company’s xCloud service. We’ve managed to get access to the latest version of the Xbox Game Streaming app for Windows, an unannounced and unreleased app. Once released, the app will let Windows users stream games from their Xbox Series S / X consoles, and from xCloud.
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
By emphasizing the "professional" in esports, we succeed, can o tap into its potential to be a far-reaching, gender-neutral, global industry. Read More.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
This has been a rough week for anyone trying to play games online. Sony’s PlayStation Network began experiencing issues Friday afternoon, and the outage seems to have persisted into the weekend based on the PSN status page. The outage comes just one day after the equivalent service for Sony’s competitor Microsoft,… Read more.
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
IT service providers need to modernize IT platforms at a time when demand for external IT expertise is on the rise. Read More.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. An outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network that began Friday afternoon appeared to be persisting on Saturday morning. According to an update on the status page timestamped 6:33PM (not clear what time zone that is) on February 26th, the affected platforms are PS Vita, PS3, PS4, and PS5. “You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
(Amazon Photo). Amazon has added a new browser setting to Amazon Kids that lets parents give their children wider access to the internet. Amazon Kids — previously known as Amazon FreeTime — is a free suite of parental controls that lets parents set age filters, educational goals, and screen time limits by content type on Amazon Fire tablets. With the new setting, kids can explore on their own, but their internet access is still filtered with built-in controls that block mature content and social
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters. Read more.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Resizable BAR is a feature of the PCIe standard that enables a system’s CPU to see the entirety of the GPU’s memory subsystem, instead of just a small 256 MB portion. Implementing the feature requires low-level support in the CPU, motherboard, and GPU, which is how AMD, who designs all.
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Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Yet another vaccine is now part of our arsenal of weapons against the covid-19 pandemic. On Saturday, the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to the one-dose shot developed by Johnson & Johnson. It joins the two-dose mRNA vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech. Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Image: Square Enix. This week’s batch of deals runs the gamut of gadgets and games. Whether you’re a music fan who’s looking to outfit their tech repertoire with new headphones or a big, powerful Bluetooth speaker, or a gamer, this roundup is for you. There still aren’t any deals on hard-to-find graphics cards, but the good news is at least AMD’s powerful Zen 3 processors are in stock right now (but perhaps not for long).
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
SPN fam, next season of The Boys is for you. Read more.
SecureWorld News
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
In 2021, remote working is still very much considered the norm as the world continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Many businesses have requested their staff work remotely for the foreseeable future. Others are now taking advantage of the normalization of remote staff to hire long-distance employees. But while remote work can have many benefits to an organization, such as access to a broader talent pool and lower costs of premises, it can also come with challenges.
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Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Red Sonja has been a long, long time coming, but with a very welcome addition, it’s time to get the show on the road. Read more.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
Chuks Onwuneme. Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Seattle entrepreneur Chuks Onwuneme, which first appeared on LinkedIn. The version below includes additional material. I co-founded optimize.health with Jeff LeBrun, initially as Pillsy in 2015, and later pivoted to focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). Optimize.heath is now a market leader in the RPM space, providing physician practices with the tools to simplify clinical workflows in connected care programs, as well as automati
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
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FEBRUARY 27, 2021
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FEBRUARY 27, 2021
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