Microsoft releases the May 2024 Security Updates for Windows – gHacks Tech News
29 May

Microsoft releases the May 2024 Security Updates for Windows – gHacks Tech News

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Microsoft has released security updates for all supported versions of its Microsoft Windows operating system and other company products. This security updates overview provides system administrators and home users with information on the released patches and changes. It highlights information about each of the supported Windows versions, lists known issues, and offers guidance on downloading and installing the updates. You can check out the April 2024 update overview here, in case you missed it or want to go back to it. Microsoft Windows Security Updates: May 2024 You may download the following Excel spreadsheet to get a list of released…
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29 May

OpenAI begins training new frontier model — but GPT-5 won’t come for at least 90 days

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Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI this morning announced it has begun training its new “frontier model” and formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by current board members Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chair and co-founder of customer service startup Sierra AI, former Google Maps lead and former Facebook CTO), Adam D’Angelo (CEO of Quora and AI model aggregator app Poe), Nicole…
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MinIO expands its enterprise object storage offering to handle AI workloads – SiliconANGLE
29 May

MinIO expands its enterprise object storage offering to handle AI workloads – SiliconANGLE

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Saying generative artificial intelligence model training has changed the game in object storage, cloud-native storage startup MinIO Inc. today launched what it says is a major expansion of its product line that addresses the data creation and management needs of exabyte-scale infrastructure. MinIO sells a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 and permits rapid access to cloud-hosted data. Object storage is a highly scalable method for storing a wide variety of structured and unstructured data types distributed across multiple hardware devices. MinIO says that more than half of Fortune 500 companies use its software-defined object storage. The company said…
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Generative agents and artificial societies
29 May

Generative agents and artificial societies

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The metaverse hype coincided with the web3 craze of 2020-2022. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and augmented/virtual-reality (AR/VR) gained traction then. Both projected visions of a digital life deeply interweaved with our physical reality. The crypto community latched on to NFTs while Meta doubled down on its Reality Labs division. The top NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) created an active community of NFT owners who have access to an exclusive chatroom, a virtual bathroom, and a shared sense of superiority over pleebs. Next-gen Oculus headsets become more usable with hardware upgrades and an increasing library of games and activities to…
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Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI
29 May

Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI

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Holy cow.War ChestMulti-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is getting ready to take on the big boys of the industry. On Sunday, the company announced that it had raised a whopping $6 billion during its latest round of funding, putting it in closer competition with bitter rivals OpenAI.In fact, xAI is now the second most valuable AI startup in the world, The Wall Street Journal reported, with a valuation of $24 billion. But it still has some catching up to do. OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, absolutely blows that sum out of the water with an over $80…
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Putin promises ‘serious consequences’ to ‘small, densely populated’ European countries calling for Ukrainian strikes on Russia
29 May

Putin promises ‘serious consequences’ to ‘small, densely populated’ European countries calling for Ukrainian strikes on Russia

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Russian leader Vladimir Putin says European countries should rethink their calls to let Ukraine use Western arms to strike his country."So, these officials from NATO countries, especially the ones based in Europe, particularly in small European countries, should be fully aware of what is at stake," Putin told reporters on Tuesday."They should keep in mind that theirs are small and densely populated countries, which is a factor to reckon with before they start talking about striking deep into the Russian territory," he continued.Putin's warnings come after several European leaders said that Ukraine should be allowed to attack Russian military targets. While Ukraine has been a large beneficiary of Western military…
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Plant sensors could act as an early warning system for farmers
29 May

Plant sensors could act as an early warning system for farmers

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Using a pair of sensors made from carbon nanotubes, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have discovered signals that reveal when plans are experiencing stresses such as heat, light, or attack from insects or bacteria.The sensors detect two signaling molecules that plants use to coordinate their response to stress: hydrogen peroxide and salicylic acid (a molecule similar to aspirin). The researchers found that plants produce these molecules at different timepoints for each type of stress, creating distinctive patterns that could serve as an early warning system.Farmers could use these sensors to monitor potential threats…
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New computer vision tool wins prize for social impact
29 May

New computer vision tool wins prize for social impact

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A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on two different problems -- how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks -- recently announced an AI framework that can do both. The framework, called DISCount, blends the speed and massive data-crunching power of artificial intelligence with the reliability of human analysis to quickly deliver reliable estimates that can quickly pinpoint and count specific features from very large collections of images. The research, published by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, has been recognized…
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