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Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
Microsoft plans to roll out a new one-time purchase edition of Office for Windows and macOS throughout 2024 – the productivity suite's first significant update since Office 2021 launched alongside Windows 11. Office LTSC will cost 10 percent more while the consumer edition maintains its current price.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
University researchers have developed a way to "jailbreak" large language models like Chat-GPT using old-school ASCII art. The technique, aptly named "ArtPrompt," involves crafting an ASCII art "mask" for a word and then cleverly using the mask to coax the chatbot into providing a response it shouldn't.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
Apple researchers have developed MM1, a new approach for training large language models (LLMs) that incorporate both textual and visual information. MM1 is part of a family of multimodal models that includes up to 30 billion parameters, utilizing a dataset comprising image-caption pairs, interleaved image-text documents, and text-only data, according...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
Last week, internal Sony documents revealed that the upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro sports improved ray tracing performance and a new upscaling technology. More information surfaced this week, providing a clearer picture of the console's specs. While the PS5's GPU has undergone a full-architecture hardware refresh, PlayStation 5's main computing chip...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
The second-generation PlayStation VR launched in February 2023 to what seemed like a warm enough reception. Sony later said the PSVR 2 had outperformed the original during launch by eight percent, notching 600,000 unit sales in the first six weeks on the market.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
While internet traffic continues to grow at an accelerated pace, BitTorrent has seemingly ceased to contribute a substantial portion of upstream data sources. Canadian network intelligence company Sandvine recently released its latest report on "internet phenomena," highlighting significant changes in the network traffic market.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
NES Hub will support four player wireless connectivity (that's also functional when wired controllers are in use), and will enable the use of SNES controllers with an "inexpensive" add-on. The modder is also experimenting with Famicom peripheral support, and said the device will also introduce "audio expansion" that works exactly...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
Mikhail Vasiliev, a 33-year-old Canadian-Russian national, who has been living in Ontario, Canada, was arrested in November 2022. Last month, he pleaded guilty to eight counts of cyber-extortion and mischief, along with weapons charges, involving Canadian victims, including businesses in Saskatchewan, Montreal, and Newfoundland.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
In a scathing report (via The Register), the OIG stated that NASA's high-end computing (HEC) technologies need a complete overhaul if it wants to compete with space research programs of other nations and retain its leadership position. Without massive changes, the agency's supercomputing resources will "likely constrain future mission priorities...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Posted on Monday March 18, 2024
Apple has been the slowest of all the tech giants to jump on the generative AI bandwagon, preferring instead to let the market mature slightly before committing.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »