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TL;DR With the newest version of Android Auto, references to “Google Assistant” are being replaced with generic terms like “Digital Assistant,” despite still referring to the existing Google Assistant settings. The changes indicate Google’s ongoing transition from Google Assistant to Gemini across supported platforms. Google has long begun phasing out Google Assistant in favor of […]
Even the most affordable Kindle usually has a $110 MSRP, so holding out for the best Prime Day Kindle deals Amazon offers makes a lot of sense. Right now, nearly every Kindle Amazon sells is seeing a discount — and a couple are hitting the best prices we’ve seen since this year. Just note that […]
Megan: And last year, when Michigan’s Governor Whitmer announced this new initiative and your position, she noted the need to foster this sort of culture of innovation. And we hear that a lot that terminal in the context of company cultures. It’s interesting to hear in the context of a U.S. state’s economy. I wonder […]
From overprivileged admin roles to long-forgotten vendor tokens, these attackers are slipping through the cracks of trust and access. Here’s how five retail breaches unfolded, and what they reveal about… In recent months, major retailers like Adidas, The North Face, Dior, Victoria’s Secret, Cartier, Marks & Spencer, and Co‑op have all been breached. These attacks weren’t sophisticated […]
Imagine you’re a developer itching to fine-tune a language model but dreading the setup hassle—managing tokens, wrangling hardware, configuring datasets, and keeping everything secure. Enter Nexa Auto, a slick tool that takes the pain out of fine-tuning Hugging Face-compatible large language models (LLMs). It’s like having a personal assistant who handles the boring stuff, letting […]
Traditional AI coding assistants typically operate in isolation, limited to the code in your current workspace. Now with the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI development workflows are further evolving to incorporate more tools and context. MCP can enable AI assistants to interact with external systems like knowledge bases, data stores, and testing […]
Being a developer is all about problem-solving and learning along the way. Last month, in celebration of this, our Community Products team launched a new experiment to test the concept of coding challenges for technologists to showcase their skills on Stack Overflow. Giving the community a place to connect with other developers and share their […]
A figure in Ilyas, et. al. that struck me as particularly interesting was the following graph showing a correlation between adversarial transferability between architectures and their tendency to learn similar non-robust features. Adversarial transferability vs test accuracy of different architectures trained on ResNet-50′s non-robust features. One way to interpret this graph is that it shows […]
Getting your hands on an OLED gaming monitor continues to be an expensive affair. However, if you’re looking for something affordable that doesn’t compromise on visual quality or refresh rate, then LG has some interesting deals. The 32-inch UltraGear 32GS60QC-B curved gaming monitor is available for $199 for a limited period, down from its regular […]
from the that-was-that dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020… remember Parler? The uncensored free speech social media platform? Well, it was changing its tune and starting to ban users as it embarked on a speedrun of the content moderation learning curve (and we also noted some striking clauses in its terms of service). […]
