Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.

If you're a graphics dev looking to understand more about deep learning, this blog introduces the basic principles in a graphics dev context.

High level explanation of the SAML authentication protocol for beginners

Nature - Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in...

SCOOP: OpenAI may lose $5B this year & may run out of cash in 12 months, unless they raise more $, per analysis @theinformation.

Investors should ask: What is their moat? Unique tech? What is their route in profitability when Meta is giving away similar…

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals’ skills. A good manager is someone who consistently…

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Intel has finally published a statement about the instability of its Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs in the 13th & 14th Gen families of CPUs. The Intel 14900K, 13900K, and…

A method that helped create two atoms of the rare, super-heavy element livermorium may pave the way towards making the hypothetical element 120

Read the preliminary post incident report regarding the CrowdStrike Falcon content update affecting Windows hosts.

The company’s strategy to set prices low for Echo speakers and other smart devices, expecting them to generate income elsewhere in the tech giant, hasn’t paid off.

Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix

You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

The Chinese company in charge of handing out domain names ending in “.top” has been given until mid-August 2024 to show that it has put in place systems for managing phishing reports and suspending abusive domains, or else forfeit its…

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

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Bitsight's analysis of the CrowdStrike outage and timeline mysteries.

LLMs are being commoditized

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