2023

You can now fine-tune OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 for specific tasks – it may even beat GPT-4 23/08/2023 at 05:02 By Katyanna Quach And work out cheaper than top-end model Developers can now fine-tune OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo model to improve its performance on specific tasks – making it potentially more effective and cheaper to run that OpenAI’s […]

Cool, more promises of a Universal Translator from Big Tech. This time, Meta – again 23/08/2023 at 04:02 By Thomas Claburn SeamlessM4T seems less open source than some might wish Meta on Tuesday released a multimodal AI foundational model called SeamlessM4T that’s designed for translating and transcribing speech and text.… This article is an excerpt

IBM sells off cloud business – yes, we mean Weather.com 23/08/2023 at 03:02 By Tobias Mann What better time for private equity to capitalize on changing climate Weather.com is an IBM business no more. Big Blue has sold off the unit to private equity.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

‘Millions’ of spammy emails with no opt-out? That’ll cost you $650K, Experian 23/08/2023 at 01:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Credit-reporting giant disagrees with FTC, will hand over the pocket change to make Feds go away Experian has agreed to cough up $650,000 after being accused of spamming people with no opt-out button.… This article is

Pentagon dumps $1.5B more into military sat network that’s already slipping behind 23/08/2023 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo One might say this program is already up in the air Things haven’t gone to plan exactly for the US military’s latest warfighting satellite constellation, but that hasn’t stopped the Department of Defense from shelling out more

Cybersecurity risks found in browser extensions 22/08/2023 at 23:47 By Browser extension security was analyzed in a recent report by Spin.AI, finding extensions with unknown authors attached to personal email accounts. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft teases Python scripting in Excel 22/08/2023 at 22:46 By Thomas Claburn Snakes on a dataframe Microsoft has added support for running Python code from within Excel, bringing the world’s most popular programming language, by some measures, to the world’s most popular spreadsheet.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you 22/08/2023 at 22:01 By Dan Robinson Folks in the Z mainframe game can have a play soon… if they dare IBM is giving its mainframe customers a tool infused with generative AI to translate COBOL code to Java as part of application

Musk’s latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned 22/08/2023 at 21:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo If advertisers weren’t happy before, this is sure to win them over Elon Musk’s seemingly arbitrary decision making was on display over the past few days at the site formerly known as Twitter, most recently in the

Lockheed’s ARRW hypersonic missile: Sometimes it flies, sometimes it just tries 22/08/2023 at 20:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo US Air Force keeping mum on results of weekend test A deal’s a deal. Despite canning Lockheed Martin’s hypersonic weapon program over repeat failures, the US Air Force is still flying planned tests of the platform – including

US and UK express interest in cybersecurity education for children 22/08/2023 at 20:17 By According to ThreatX research, consumers in the U.S. and U.K believe increasing cybersecurity education in schools will help close the talent gap. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source