OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Jony Ive about a hardware project
OpenAI, not content with building large language models and art-generating AI, wants to get into hardware. That’s according The Information, which reported this week that storied former Apple product designer Jony Ive is in talks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about an AI hardware project. The details are wanting. But
Read moreMaster Python GUI Development with Tkinter
Step-by-step guide to building a user-friendly document generator GUI in PythonContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreThe Dungeons & Dragons DLC for Minecraft includes dice rolls, magic missiles and more
Minecraft just dropped its newest DLC for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) players to enjoy. In partnership with D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast and Everbloom Games, the DLC takes players on an adventure into the Forgotten Realms, letting them explore classic locations like Candlekeep, Icewind Dale, Revel’s End and more.
Read moreMOVEit cyberattacks: keeping tabs on the biggest data theft of 2023
Illustration: Beatrice Sala A ransomware gang used a zero-day exploit in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer to steal thousands of companies’ data, affecting over 60 million people. In May 2023, a ransomware gang called Clop began abusing a zero-day exploit of Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer enterprise file transfer tool. Progress quickly
Read moreFintech actually has a value system: Here’s how we can reclaim it
One of the big lessons of the social finance backlash is that empowerment without education can do more harm than good.
Read moreCybersecurity firm Lumu raises $30M to detect network intrusions
Lumu, a startup that helps enterprises identify and isolate security compromises, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Forgepoint Capital, $6 million of which is debt. Ricardo Villadiego, Lumu’s founder and CEO, says that the new cash will be put toward growing Lumu’s
Read moreCloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models
Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed at helping customers build, deploy and run AI models at the network edge. One of the new offerings, Workers AI, lets customers access physically nearby GPUs hosted
Read moreCircular coordinate art
About three years ago I ran across a strange coordinate system in which familiar functions lead to interesting plots. The system is called “circular coordinates” but it is not polar coordinates. This morning I was playing around with this again. Here’s a plot of f(x) = x. And here’s a
Read moreTravel wheelchair Revolve Air launches on Kickstarter
Revolve Air, a travel wheelchair that can fold to cabin luggage size, is now available for pre-orders on Kickstarter at a cost of $4,999.
Read moreFormer Tinder CEO’s startup to fight loneliness with AI chatbot gets backing by Sequoia
Former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg’s startup Meeno, which aims to fight loneliness through an AI-powered chatbot, announced that it has raised a $3.9 million seed round led by Sequoia. Meeno aims to release its app on the App Store in December in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
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