Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), one of the affected countries. (credit: Getty) Thirteen countries across Africa experienced Internet outages on Thursday due to damage to submarine fiber optic cables. Some countries, including Ghana and Nigeria, are still suffering from...
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Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected
Enlarge / View of Le Plateau and Ebrie Lagoon from the top of the Cathedrale St-Paul in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), one of the affected countries. (credit: Getty) Thirteen countries across Africa experienced Internet outages on Thursday due to damage to submarine fiber optic cables. Some countries, including Ghana and Nigeria, are still suffering from...
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Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT called GPT-2—originally released in 2019 after some trepidation from OpenAI—into a working Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It’s freely available...
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Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT called GPT-2—originally released in 2019 after some trepidation from OpenAI—into a working Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It’s freely available...
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After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease”
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners have experienced after the sweeping changes that Broadcom has instituted since it acquired the virtualization company 114 days ago. In a blog post Thursday, Tan noted that Broadcom spent 18 months evaluating and...
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After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease”
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners have experienced after the sweeping changes that Broadcom has instituted since it acquired the virtualization company 114 days ago. In a blog post Thursday, Tan noted that Broadcom spent 18 months evaluating and...
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Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Previously, on “Weekend Projects for Homelab Admins With Control Issues,” we created our own dynamically updating DNS and DHCP setup with bind and dhcpd. We laughed. We cried. We hurled. Bonds were forged, never to be broken. And I hope we all took a little something special away...
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Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Previously, on “Weekend Projects for Homelab Admins With Control Issues,” we created our own dynamically updating DNS and DHCP setup with bind and dhcpd. We laughed. We cried. We hurled. Bonds were forged, never to be broken. And I hope we all took a little something special away...
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TikTok Is Its Own Worst Enemy
The video-sharing app has received unfair treatment in Washington. But the company’s biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
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TikTok Turns to Creators to Fight Possible Ban
Dozens of popular figures on the app have traveled to Washington to urge lawmakers to oppose a bill that could result in the platform being blocked in the United States.