Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A critical zero-day vulnerability Google reported on Wednesday in its Chrome browser is opening the Internet to a new chapter of Groundhog Day. Like a critical zero-day Google disclosed on September 11, the new exploited vulnerability doesn’t affect just Chrome. Already, Mozilla has said that its Firefox browser is vulnerable to...
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Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social apps
Enlarge / Meta’s AI characters feature Snoop Dogg playing a dungeon master that dispenses gaming advice. (credit: Meta) On Wednesday, Meta announced its consumer-friendly entry into the crowded AI chatbot landscape, The Verge reports. During a presentation at Meta Connect 2023, the company said it is launching its own “Meta AI” chat assistant and a...
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AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Effective compression is about finding patterns to make data smaller without losing information. When an algorithm or model can accurately guess the next piece of data in a sequence, it shows it’s good at spotting these patterns. This links the idea of making good guesses—which is what large language models like...
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2023 MLB wins leaders
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Jann Wenner stopped the gaslighting. Let’s be thankful.
Recently, Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner sat down for an interview with The New York Times in which he explained why he only included white men in his book, The Masters, which includes seven interviews with rock ’n’ roll legends. Wenner asserted that no female artists were “as articulate enough on this intellectual level,”...
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LeBron James is the 2016 Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year
Sports Illustrated announced last week that Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James is the 2016 Sportsperson of the Year. In a year full of stirring and historic performances across all sports, James was transcendent, rallying the Cavaliers from a 3-1 deficit against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals to deliver the city of Cleveland’s first...
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The Black Streak Kitchen App Will Change the Way Americans View Cooking and Nutrition
Do you consider yourself to be healthy? Statistics show that Type-2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity, is on the rise in America, especially among children. This alarming health trend, which disproportionately affects African-Americans, has led brothers Justin and Terry Raimey to invent the Black Streak Kitchen mobile app, which approaches cooking and nutrition education...
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Black man indicted with Donald Trump the only person still in jail (video)
Of the 18 people who surrendered at the Fulton County Jail along with Donald Trump, there remains only one person, a Black man, who was actually thrown behind bars — and he remains there five days later. Harrison Floyd is the former leader of Black Voices for Trump whom Fulton County prosecutors accuse of engaging...