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News Image Duolingo’s Physical Keyboard Will Now Annoy You to Practice Your Scales as Much as Your French

The language learning app worked with Loog to create a digital piano that pairs with Duolingo Music. It has a small, wooden stand for your phone as well.

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AutoCanada says ransomware attack "may" impact employee data

AutoCanada is warning that employee data may have been exposed in an August cyberattack claimed by the Hunters International ransomware gang....

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News Image PlayStation State of Play September 2024: all the biggest news and announcements

Astro Bot DLC news, and and Sucker Punch’s next big game.

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News Image Sonic the Hedgehog Is Getting a DC Comic Book Run as the Justice League

The Sonic x DC Comics collab is being penned by writer Ian Flynn and will run for five monthly issues.

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News Image How to Stream Meta Connect 2024

The keynote goes live on September 25 at 1 PM E.T on the Meta for Developers Facebook page.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]

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Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for FTX fraud

Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX affiliate Alameda Research, was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday. Ellison pled guilty to conspiring with FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to steal $8 billion worth of customers’ funds, but she was an exceedingly cooperative witness, helping law enforcement to investigate the massive fraud scheme. Her two-year sentence […]

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News Image Hollywood is coming out in force for California’s AI safety bill

As Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision looms, SAG-AFTRA members leverage star power to push for SB 1047’s passage.

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Commvault acquires data backup provider Clumio

The deal is expected to close in early October. Commvault says it's not material to its earnings and that it'll be funded with cash on hand.

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News Image Get Clickin’ and Clackin’ With a Mechanical Keyboard for 62% off

Upgrade to a Keychron Q1 mechanical keyboard for just $80 at Woot with your choice of switches.

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News Image Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

Enlarge When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern. So Rehberger did what all good researchers do: He created a proof-of-concept exploit that used the vulnerability to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity. OpenAI engineers took notice and issued a partial fix earlier this month. The vulnerability abused long-term conversation memory, a feature OpenAI began testing in February and made more broadly available in September. Memory with ChatGPT stores information from previous conversations and uses it as context in all future conversations. That way, the LLM can be aware of details such as a user’s age, gender, philosophical beliefs, and pretty much anything else, so those details don’t have to be inputted during each conversation.

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The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out

We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement, but there are plenty of social apps that might be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter for whatever reason (we can think of plenty). Twitter’s current situation — advertisers leaving, Nazis logging back on — presents an opportunity to […]

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News Image Octopuses Like to Punch Their Fishy Hunting Buddies, New Study Reveals

The cephalopods team up with a variety of fish for hunting, and that results in some complex relationship dynamics that can include violence.

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News Image How Google made the ad tech industry revolve around itself

‘All roads lead back to Google,’ the government argued in the first two weeks of its ad tech antitrust trial.

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News Image FTX Insider Caroline Ellison Sentenced to Two Years in Prison

The former chief executive of Alameda Research, the trading company that acted as the vehicle for the multibillion-dollar fraud at crypto exchange FTX, has been given a two-year prison sentence after cooperating with investigators.

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News Image ChatGPT’s New Voice Assistant Is Here to Creep You Out

All paying subscribers should have access this week.

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