Save hundreds on a MacBook this Labor Day, starting from just $999 with up to $300 off on upper-range models — Apple’s latest laptops are on sale

This Labor Day weekend, treat yourself to a new laptop—but not just any laptop—instead, opt for one of the best work machines available today. Apple’s MacBook is a go-to choice for reliable, recommended laptops that suit a wide range of users. With the advent of the M-series chips, they’ve become super competitive in terms of […]

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Sequence Modeling with CTC

Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes training a speech recognizer harder than it might at first seem. Without this alignment, the simple approaches aren’t available to us. We could devise a […]

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The Threat Of Extreme Statutory Damages For Copyright Almost Certainly Made Anthropic Settle With Authors

from the can’t-risk-it dept In what may be the least surprising news in the world of copyright and the internet, Anthropic just agreed to settle the copyright lawsuit that everyone’s been watching, but not for the reasons most people think. This isn’t about AI training being found to infringe copyright—in fact, Anthropic won on that […]

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Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections

The Copilot Chat extension for VS Code has been evolving rapidly over the past few months, adding a wide range of new features. Its new agent mode lets you use multiple large language models (LLMs), built-in tools, and MCP servers to write code, make commit requests, and integrate with external systems. It’s highly customizable, allowing […]

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Making continuous learning work at work

The most impactful learning happens in the flow of work—during code reviews, retros, and problem-solving—not in classrooms or LMS platforms. Leaders should embed learning into daily routines using the Learn → Question → Answer → Apply cycle. To make continuous learning stick, focus on three practices: be intentional, lead by example, and offer multimodal solutions. […]

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

What are computers for? Historically, different answers to this question – that is, different visions of computing – have helped inspire and determine the computing systems humanity has ultimately built. Consider the early electronic computers. ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer, was commissioned to compute artillery firing tables for the United States Army. Other […]

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GeoServer Exploits, PolarEdge, and Gayfemboy Push Cybercrime Beyond Traditional Botnets

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to multiple campaigns that leverage known security vulnerabilities and expose Redis servers to various malicious activities, including leveraging the compromised devices as IoT botnets, residential proxies, or cryptocurrency mining infrastructure. The first set of attacks entails the exploitation of CVE-2024-36401 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting […]

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AMD accidentally marks FSR 4 open-source — source code reveals potential support for older Radeon GPUs

AMD recently published a new version of its FidelitySDK with FSR 4 upscaling and FSR 3.1.5 frame generation support. However, during the process, the GPU manufacturer accidentally published the full FSR 4 source code on GitHub (seemingly unintentionally). Before AMD took it down, some media outlets and X users managed to record screenshots of the […]

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