OpenAI has announced a new family of models, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, which it says outperforms GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini “across the board.” In conjunction with the launch of the GPT-4.1 family, OpenAI also announced that it is deprecating GPT-4.5 Preview in the API. GPT-4.5 Preview will be turned off completely on July…
Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at some point Monday evening and remains mostly unreachable as of this writing. DownDetector showed reports of outages spiking at about 10:07 pm Eastern time on Monday, and they’ve remained elevated since. Posters at Soyjack Party, a rival imageboard that began…
Netflix doesn’t plan to disclose subscriber counts anymore, but one of WSJ’s anonymous sources said that the streaming leader wants to have 410 million subscribers by 2030. That would require Netflix to add 108.4 million more subscribers than it reported at the end of 2024, or about 21.7 million per year, and expand its global…
As with its other 50-series announcements, Nvidia is leaning on its DLSS Multi-Frame Generation technology to make lofty performance claims—the GPUs can insert up to three AI-interpolated frames in between each pair of frames that the GPU actually renders. The 40 series could only generate a single frame, and 30-series and older GPUs don’t support…
Internet outages are bad news for small- to medium-sized businesses. Point-of-sale systems won’t work when connections fail, meaning transactions can’t go through and revenue is lost until service is restored. And, as we know from the news, the situation is only getting worse with the increasing frequency of intense storms that tear down lines. SMBs…
A silent update rolling out to virtually all Android devices will make your phone more secure, and all you have to do is not touch it for a few days. The new feature implements auto-restart of a locked device, which will keep your personal data more secure. It’s coming as part of a Google Play…
Google has unveiled a new generative AI (genAI) model, Dolphin Gemma, which will attempt to decode how dolphins communicate with each other. Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals on the planet and communicate partly through whistles and calls. However, it is still unknown whether dolphins have an actual language. Google is hoping Dolphin Gemma…
Every year, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks break records for frequency, size, and sophistication, making it imperative that enterprises adopt powerful mitigation measures. To be effective, those measures require network and processing capacity that can handle the flood of requests DDoS attacks generate in their quest to overwhelm corporate servers. Defense mechanisms need to…
Apple has a brand new plan to make Apple Intelligence smarter. That plan is you — more specifically, your data. A post on the company’s Machine Learning blog explains the plan to begin on-device analysis of your user data. Apple trains its own AI using synthetic data, but this is a limited approach because models trained this way can…
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