Clibrain joins the generative AI race with Lince, an LLM optimized for Spanish
There is a long list of Large Language Models (LLMs) out in the wild already, from OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Google’s PaLM2 to Meta’s LLaMA, to name three of the more high profile examples. Differentiation between LLMs is determined by factors including the core architecture of the model, training data used,
Read moreChinese hackers breached US government emails via Microsoft Cloud exploit
Around 25 organizations and government agencies are believed to be affected by the breach. | Illustration: Beatrice Sala In two blog posts published on Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed that a China-based hacking group — which the company refers to as “Storm-0558” — is intent on “gaining access to email systems for
Read moreHow to mark a language in HTML
In HTML you can mark the language of a piece of text by putting it inside span tags and setting the lang attribute to a two-letter abbreviation. For example, <span lang="fr">Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé !<span> indicates that the first two lines of the
Read moreMicrosoft warns Office admins to block exploitation of zero-day hole
IT administrators with Microsoft Office in their environments are being urged to take action after the discovery of a previously unknown vulnerability being leveraged by a Russian-based cyber-criminal group. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-36884, described as an HTML remote code execution vulnerability involving specially-crafted Microsoft Office documents, wasn’t patched yesterday in the
Read moreTumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says
If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing policies, it’s this: making a social media company profitable is hard! After rolling out some unpopular features, Tumblr is now trying to “build in public” and be more transparent about the business behind
Read morePipe co-founder raises $6M for CapStack, a bank-to-bank marketplace aimed at ‘de-riskifying portfolios’
CapStack, a startup formed by Pipe co-founder Michal Cieplinski, has raised $6 million toward its effort to build an integrated operating system for banks. In simpler terms, Cieplinski described CapStack as the “first bank-to-bank marketplace,” giving the institutions the ability to share and have visibility into one another’s portfolios. Cieplinski
Read moreKenya’s First Virtual University Launches
Kenya| The launch of Kenya’s first fully-fledged online university is a milestone achievement for Africa’s education sector, one that is surely to spearhead a movement towards online education that will establish it as a new norm across the African continent. The public University will be the first of its kind
Read moreLife Beyond Loadshedding – What is Next for South Africa?
The escalating loadshedding issue has shaken our nation for months. With a rising decline of energy, South Africans have learnt not to depend on electricity as their go – to energy resource. This ongoing problem that has become tiresome has forced many to opt for alternative solutions to ensure the
Read moreWant a personalized and hassle-free shopping experience?
Egypt | Rabbit, the e-commerce platform, has announced the launch of RabbitAI, an innovative AI-powered shopping assistant leveraging OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. The introduction of RabbitAI signifies a significant milestone in the Middle East’s AI adoption, as it becomes the first Arabic-supporting AI shopping assistant globally and the first of its
Read moreForaged’s wild foods marketplace saw repeat customer rate increase over 1,000%
We don’t have to forage for food so much anymore; however, people not only enjoy unearthing wild mushrooms and other foods, but consumers are also equally excited to eat them. Enter Foraged, a marketplace for purchasing wild and specialty foods from independent foragers and farmers. Mushrooms are big business: Companies
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