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25 Jun

OpenAI has delayed its seductive ChatGPT voice assistants

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If you’ve been dreaming about spending your summer whispering sweet nothings into the digital ears of one of the seductive ChatGPT voice assistants that OpenAI showed off last month, you’ll have to dream a little longer. On Tuesday, the company announced that its “advanced Voice Mode” feature needs more time in the oven “to reach our bar to launch.” The feature will be available to a small group of users to gather feedback, and then launch to all paying ChatGPT customers in the fall.“We’re improving the model’s ability to detect and refuse certain content,” OpenAI posted on X. “We’re also…

25 Jun

How to Conquer Imposter Syndrome

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It's been about 20 days, and I've been very busy with my college assignments. But on the side, I managed to finish the basics of web development and tried to get back into coding by creating a few small projects. However, I encountered a significant challenge: imposter syndrome. I kept comparing myself to many younger developers who are excelling in the field, securing jobs at multinational corporations, landing remote positions, or even starting their own SaaS businesses. Moreover, I've come across numerous YouTube videos suggesting that the MERN Stack and web development, in general, are becoming saturated fields, and all…

25 Jun

Threads can now show replies from Mastodon and other fediverse apps

stp2y0 CommentsNewsfediverse, gear, meta, news, threads

Meta just made an important update for Threads users who are sharing posts to the fediverse. The company began allowing users to opt-in to sharing their Threads posts to Mastodon and other ActivityPub-powered services back . But the integration has been fairly limited, with Threads users unable to view replies and most other interactions to their posts without switching over to a Mastodon client or other app.That’s now changing. The Threads app will now be able to and likes from Mastodon and other services, Meta announced. The change marks the first time Threads users who have opted into fediverse sharing…

25 Jun

Resourcely founder-led in person or virtual hands-on workshop

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Join Resourcely for a free founder-led in person or virtual hands-on workshop. Learn how easy it is to enable cloud infrastructure paved roads to prevent misconfigurations for your organization. In this session, you’ll learn how to: ✅ Navigate Resourcely user interface, and connection options. ✅ Integrate your SSO provider ✅ Integrate your VCS provider ✅ Understand what Resourcely Blueprints and Guardrails are in our catalog out of the box ✅ Understand the importance of Global Contexts ✅ Understand configuration options for Blueprints ✅ Understand configuration options for Really, our policy as code language ✅ Understand how Resourcely can integrate into…

25 Jun

Reddit puts AI scrapers on notice

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Reddit has a warning for AI companies and other scrapers: play by our rules or get blocked. The company said in that it plans to update its Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt file), which allows it to block automated scraping of its platform.The company said it will also continue to block and rate-limit crawlers and other bots that don’t have a prior agreement with the company. The changes, it said, shouldn’t affect “good faith actors,” like the Internet Archive and researchers.Reddit’s notice comes shortly after multiple reports that Perplexity and other AI companies regularly websites’ robots.txt protocol, which is used by…

25 Jun

The Terms for a Meeting with Me

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I just came out of a disaster of a sales meeting. The client was hostile, and I can actually understand why. My vertical is filled with 99.9% thieves and thugs, and the stigma of working with AI is real. It's a gold rush, and like always it attracts all the wrong people. If you don't believe me, then please log in to LinkedIn and try to find one of your contacts not being an alleged "AI expert" these days. My Credentials My credentials was one of the things the client was asking me about. I don't like bragging about myself…

25 Jun

OpenAI will block people in China from using its services

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OpenAI plans to block people from using ChatGPT in China, a country where its services aren’t officially available, but where users and developers access it via the company’s API anyway. Securities Times, a Chinese state-owned newspaper reported on Tuesday that OpenAI had started sending emails to users in China outlining its plans to block access starting July 9, according to Reuters.“We are taking additional taps to block API traffic from regions where we do not support access to OpenAI’s services,” an OpenAI spokesperson told the publication. The move could impact several Chinese startups which have built applications using OpenAI’s large…

25 Jun

Converting RGBA to HEX in JavaScript: A Comprehensive Guide

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In web development, managing colors efficiently is crucial for creating visually appealing applications. One common task is converting colors from RGBA (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha) format to HEX (Hexadecimal) format. In this article, we’ll explore a robust JavaScript function to achieve this conversion seamlessly. Introduction to Color Formats Colors in web development can be represented in various formats, including: RGBA: Specifies colors with Red, Green, Blue, and Alpha (opacity) values.HEX: Represents colors using a hexadecimal code.Converting between these formats is often necessary for consistent styling across different platforms and tools. The rgbaToHex FunctionThe rgbaToHex function is designed to convert an…

25 Jun

Firefox 127.0.2 fixes Google-caused YouTube playback issue – gHacks Tech News

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Mozilla released a new version of its Firefox web browser a moment ago. Firefox 127.0.2 fixes a long-standing playback issue on YouTube that was caused by the Google-owned property and not Firefox according to Mozilla's analysis of the issue. For the past five or so months, some Firefox users were running into roadblocks regularly on YouTube. The full number of affected users is unclear. We published an article about the issue just last week. Here are the details: It affected regular and live videos on YouTube, but not all of them. vp9 videos with a resolution of 1080 or higher…

25 Jun

Epileptic teen receives first ever seizure-controlling brain implant

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A 13-year-old boy with severe epilepsy in the United Kingdom has become the first person in the world to receive a brain implant that helps keep seizures under control. Per , Oran Knowlson underwent surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London to have the Picostim neurostimulator fitted into his brain to address Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a rare treatment-resistant form of epilepsy.Knowlson received the neurostimulator in October 2023 as part of run by GOSH in collaboration with University College London, King’s College Hospital and the University of Oxford. Since receiving the implant, which was developed by Amber Therapeutics, Oran’s daytime…