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/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23932740/acastro_STK070__02.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Instagram’s ‘social library’ could keep track of that funny video someone sent you")
Source: The Verge Instagram appears to be working on a new “Social Library” section in the app where you can easily access things shared in chat threads, your collections, and posts you’ve liked, according to an image shared by developer and leaker Alessandro Paluzzi. Judging from the looks of the screenshot from Paluzzi, the section…
Source: Venture Beat A simple change to the attention mechanism can make LLMs much more effective at finding relevant information in their context window. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25532398/STK204_JD_VANCE_D.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "JD Vance thinks monarchists like Curtis Yarvin have some good ideas")
Source: The Verge JD Vance is, by his own admission, “plugged into a lot of weird right-wing subcultures.” His much-mocked comments about childless cat ladies and unassimilated Italian immigrants were made on a “masculinist” podcast. He doesn’t eat seed oils, a dietary restriction du jour on the extremely online right. When he was nominated to…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25682323/apple_business_update.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Apple’s new feature lets brands put their stamp on emails and calls to your iPhone")
Source: The Verge Soon, Apple will let businesses customize how they appear in emails and phone calls on the iPhone. Apple announced on Wednesday how companies using its Business Connect tool can add their brand name and logo in ways that will pop up in iPhone apps used for email, phone calls, and payments. Each…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/18329976/akrales_190723_3560_0055.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons")
Source: The Verge Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons. The company announced a new Kindle lineup earlier today, but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving on from the Oasis. “Once current inventory of Kindle Oasis sells out online and in stores, we…
Source: Venture Beat SuperGaming launched its made-in-India Indus Battle Royale, targeted at mobile gamers and esports tournaments. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25531732/_STK062_DISCORD_CVIRGINIA_A.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Discord fights DMCA subpoena it says would violate the First Amendment")
Source: The Verge Discord is fighting to keep its users anonymous in a court battle over piracy on the platform, claiming it would violate users’ First Amendment rights to hand over too much of their information. Nexon, which publishes games including MapleStory, alleges that Discord has refused to comply with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act…
Source: Venture Beat Mistral AI, a rising star in the artificial intelligence arena, launched two new language models on Wednesday, potentially reshaping how businesses and developers deploy AI technology. The Paris-based startup’s new offerings, Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, are designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to edge devices, marking a significant s… Read Full…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25681690/AxEMU_Prada_Spacesuit_Mockup_20241007_085_AxEdit.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Prada helped make a spacesuit")
Source: The Verge Space travel, it must be said, does not seem glamorous. You have to pee your pants and eat reconstituted roast beef for dinner. But future space flights might get a little fancier when the next moon-bound astronauts put on Axiom Space’s new spacesuit, designed in partnership with Prada. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25469941/STK202_DARIO_AMODEI_CVIRGINIA_D.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first")
Source: The Verge If you want to raise ungodly amounts of money, you better have some godly reasons. That’s what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out for us on Friday in more than 14,000 words: otherworldly ways in which artificial general intelligence (AGI, though he prefers to call it “powerful AI”) will change our lives….
