LLMs become more covertly racist with human intervention
Even when the two sentences had the same meaning, the models were more likely to apply adjectives like “dirty,” “lazy,” and “stupid” to speakers...
Why Elon Musk Had to Open Source Grok, His Answer to ChatGPT
After suing OpenAI this month, alleging the company has become too closed, Elon Musk says he will release his “truth-seeking” answer to ChatGPT, the...
How Do Heat Pumps Work?
Now stretch it really hard and quickly hold it to your upper lip, which is sensitive to temperature. You will feel that it's warmer...
A Roku Terms of Service Update Locks Up Your TV Until You Agree
Roku customers are threatening to stop using, or to even dispose of, their low-priced TVs and streaming gadgets after the company appears to be...
Sam Altman Is Reinstated to OpenAI’s Board
Sam Altman is back—again. The entrepreneur who was suddenly fired as OpenAI CEO and from the ChatGPT developer’s board last November, before regaining his...
Google API brings LLMs to Android and iOS devices
Google has released an experimental API that allows large language models to run fully on-device across Android, iOS, and web platforms.Introduced March 7, the...
The SEC’s new climate rules were a missed opportunity to accelerate corporate action
Investor efforts to evaluate carbon emissions, decarbonization plans, and climate risks through ESG (environmental, social, and governance) rating schemes have merely produced what some...
Swift language achieves data-race safety
Apple has released Swift 5.10, an update to the company’s open-source programming language that reaches a major milestone: providing safety against data races via...
The Download: organoid uses, and open source voting machines
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections While vendors pitched their latest voting machines in Concord, New Hampshire, this past...
Understanding DbContext in Entity Framework Core
Entity Framework Core is an object-relational mapper, or ORM, that isolates your application’s object model from the data model. That allows you to write...
