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I built this little tool to help me understand what it's like to be an autoregressive language model. For any given passage of text, it augments the original text with highlights and annotations that tell me how

Collect the set! I don’t really need a digital copy of Man, Myth and Magic—I’ve been the fortunate owner for many years of the bound set of original magazines you see above—but I imagin…

The Ten Most Critical API Security Risks

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

There's a "hidden" API on HIBP. Well, it's not "hidden" insofar as it's easily discoverable if you watch the network traffic from the client, but it's not meant to be called directly, rather only via the web app. It's called "unified search" and it looks…

Apple relies on Arm’s designs for its custom chips.

YMMV, based on where you are

Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed "the fairy godmother of the web," has died at age 60.

Explore how Reuters verifies the authenticity of images through an in-depth verification process in collaboration with Canon and Starling Lab.

The refrain of the Maroon 5's song "This Love" contains the verse "She said goodbye too many times before.". How would you translate that verse into Latin? My attempt would be &...

Meta Platforms can be fined for breaching users' privacy, a Norwegian court ruled on Wednesday, stopping an attempt by the owner of Facebook and Instagram to halt a fine imposed by the country's data regulator.

A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage - GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse

‘Just in time’ production system minimises costs but technical glitch highlights risks

Microsoft won’t say why this change is limited to EU markets.

Stephen Wolfram shares memories of Doug Lenat, early AI pioneer and developer of the CYC system. Their discussions around AI & logic and the potential combined uses of their respective discoveries.

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most used browsers since 2004, as it's completely free and open-source with a focus on privacy. You can use it on Windows, Linux, Android, and in the Apple universe on Mac with macOS and mobile with iOS.

The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers, under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).