This article is talking about how banks are using Mistral, an open source/private LLM from France, to power their banking transactions to keep the financial data private and in house instead of sharing it with the LLM company.
I have consistently, since term 1, used the "family annihilator" framing when discussing the MAGA movement. Once you realize it, it's impossible to miss seeing it in everything they do.
Finally, PDS hosting as a service (for people who want their Bluesky/Atmosphere personal data hosted independently but who don't want to DIY it)
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
Heeey, look, it's me!
I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.
This week on the Twitch channel
✔️ Mar 11 @ 10a - High Energy Coworking
🏗️ Mar 12 @ 2p - Building Taskless Live. We have a lightning demo at the end of the month to prep for
✨ Mar 13 @ 2p - Stream Fun Fridays. Giving every chatter a persona and a voice
twitch.tv/theCodeDrift
Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.
More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Interesting, that is unexpected.
I hope it helps Bluesky to grow.
There's been a lot of conversations about open source/private, custom trained LLMs.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Anthropic has released their own analysis of how AI is impacting the job market in the US.
Most affected workers seem to be older, highly educated women and younger, fresh graduates.
www.anthropic.com/research/lab...
My sister rescued a new pom. He's inbred and his name is Sandwich
Think your proprietary AI is safe behind closed doors? Xiao et al. introduce ModelSpy, a side-channel attack that steals complete neural network architectures from up to six meters away just by listening to a GPU's electromagnetic leakage through a wall. www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/p...
How not to IAM | LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files #devopsish
92,000 Americans lost their jobs in ONE month while this administration plays golf and picks trade wars. Unemployment hits 4.4% and nobody’s being held accountable.
ENOUGH.
#TrumpsJobsSlump
"Wow. A big drop" -- CNBC highlights that labor force participation is now the lowest it has been since in late 2021, before the covid vaccine was widely available
I'm done with 20-years-on revivals where the stars have been Polyfilla-d and given wigs but their voices have gone weird and they look tired. Agree with this. Onward!
🚀 I've just opened 2 new roles at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on @home-assistant.io!
🖥️ Frontend Engineer
🔐 Security Engineer
Fully remote. Full-time. Open source every day.
Best job in the world. It changed my life. This is your chance to change yours.
🔗 openhomefoundation.org/jobs
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...
Me: surely, he didn't actually say the words in the quotes in that order. this is cartoon villain level stuff...
[looks it up, confirms that he did, in fact, say this]
Jesus Christ.
bsky.app/profile/snyf...
I wrote about what happens when you rewrite mature software with agents. You rebuild the features. You don't rebuild the scars.
vinext: one engineer, one week, $1,100 in tokens. Then plenty of vulnerabilities found within days.
pentesterlab.com/blog/what-yo...
Oh yeah. I have an old laptop I installed Mint on and I've been meaning to bring it into rotation so I can test it out more before switching on my big desktop. I need to make that a priority.
ChatGPT is shedding users fast. Since yesterday alone, estimates suggest more than a million accounts have been deleted and the boycott continues to gain momentum. Incredible work, everyone!
GNU Terry Pratchett
Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.
Screenshot of a question posted to quora: "Why do older people not like putting spaces in file names when saving documents?"
Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.
‘Does its best’? It breaks the law every thirty minutes; it’s the felonious equivalent of the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica ep1
