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AWS adds Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock to help safeguard LLMs
TechCrunch,
We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models, and finding ways to constrain the answers that a model could give is one way to apply some control to these powerful technologies. Today, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS CEO […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Apple Music Replay is here, and it’s still no Spotify Wrapped
Apple’s year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it’s still no match for Spotify’s personalized look back at your year in music. The Apple experience — available via a URL at replay.music.apple.com — will show you your top songs, albums, artists, genres, and other information about your listening history […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Linda Salzman Sagan, co-creator of the Voyager Golden Record and Pioneer Plaque, RIP
Boing Boing,
Linda Salzman Sagan who co-created two iconic messages to extraterrestrials—the Voyager Golden Record and the Pioneer Plaque—has died. She was 83-years-old. The Pioneer Plaque was a collaboration between Linda, her husband astronomer and educator Carl Sagan, and astronomer Frank Drake, the "father of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence." — Read the rest
"I feel like I'm on a hamster wheel" — US cost of living has skyrocketed since 2020
Prices on just about everything in the United States have gone up — way up. Here are some figures from an article in Bloomberg titled, "Just How Bad Is the US Cost-of-Living Squeeze? We Did the Math"that reveal how much prices have jumped since 2020:2020: Groceries = 25% Pets = 17% Electricity Bills = 25% (51% in California) Natural gas = 29% Rent =+20% Used Cars = 35% Car Insurance = 33% Child care = 32% Bloomberg interviewed several U.S. — Read the rest
Oxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research has limits
In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm. Professors Andrew Przybylski and Matti Vuorre studied data from two million people aged 15 to 89 in 168 countries, finding that in the last […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Stars Puzzle
Vulture,
4-Down, Five Letters: Rebecca and Daryl.
How to Survive the Office Holiday Party
The Cut,
Yes, you should go. But as long as you spend a few minutes talking to your boss, you can probably get away with leaving early.
Amazon's Fallout TV Show Reveals Its Armor, Apocalypse, and Walton Ghoul-gins
Gizmodo,
Fallout makes its global premiere on Prime Video April 12, 2024—and it’s a series that fans of Bethesda’s popular post-apocalyptic video game have been eager to learn more about. Today, we finally have fresh images to share, and they’re full of jumpsuits, power suits, and at least one missing nose. Read more...