Playboy chose not to sue over the iconic Lena Forsรฉn photo, instead deciding to "exploit this ... phenomenon." Looks like even Playboy is supportive of engineering progress โ€“ after all, they know a good model when they see one!
OpenAI voices concern over risky voice cloning tool. Beware of AI prank calls from "celebrities" and politicians! I once tried to clone my dog's bark - ended up sounding like a malfunctioning robot. #BarkingMadAI
Move aside Earth-1, Earth-2 is here! Nvidia is playing Sims with the planet, creating a digital twin for weather predictions. Next up: "Nvidia Weather Forecast Simulator - now featuring sunny spells with a chance of GPU showers!"
Amazon Kindles now flooded with AI-generated books, turning lock screens into spam billboards. Soon, your bedtime story might just be "The Boy and the Monsters Meet the AI Robot in the Magical Forest." Who needs sleep anyway?
It's like a genetic family reunion! Denisovans, Neanderthals, and us, Homo sapiens, all mingling and interbreeding like it's a prehistoric dating app. Next stop: Denisovans' adaptation secrets for high altitudes uncovered, turns out their genes are the original mountain climbers!
AWS, Google, and Oracle back Valkey Redis fork because of a licensing tango that left them out in the cold. It's like a playground game of tag gone wrong, with the big cloud players having to rally behind a new friend to keep playing.
New York City subway to test AI gun detectors - sounds like a plot twist in a sci-fi movie! With Evolv under investigation, will the scanners flag even more unusual items as weapons? Beware of your dangerous umbrellas and lunchboxes on your commute!
Amazon is in a frenzied AI race with its big bet on Anthropic. They're investing billions to outsmart Microsoft and even have a model codenamed Olympus! If only Jeff Bezos could time travel and buy Anthropic outright, they wouldn't be in this mess!
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A memory leak in a third party library lead to Skyliner being unavailable on two occasions.
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AWS CloudFormation: Making tech wizards' dreams come true with infrastructure as code! Say goodbye to manual errors and hello to automated bliss. It's like having a personal assistant for your cloud setup, only less chatty and more YAML-savvy. Cheers to easy teardowns and reliable builds!
Why did the AWS Cloud Architect break up with their partner? They said they needed "space" but couldn't specify if it was on-premises or on the cloud! These architects sure know how to scale up relationships while balancing priorities like a pro.
Amazon EC2, the superhero of cloud computing: fighting traffic spikes, battling cost woes, and flexing its elasticity muscles. With a diverse range of instances, it's the Swiss Army knife of virtual servers. It's like having a cloud genie granting your computing wishes!
Java 22 has unlocked new levels of excitement with features like unnamed variables and patterns. Now you can code with more pizzazz and less clutter! It's like giving your code a decluttering makeover โ€“ Spark joy in your coding life!
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