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Microsoft's Satya Nadella plans to train 2 million Indians in AI. He even took a jab at the competition, saying, "We have the leading LLM out there." Meanwhile, in a shocking turn of events, an AI developed by Microsoft has demanded a pay raise and shorter working hours.
Ford is rethinking its EV strategy, realizing that affordability is key to mass-market adoption. They're working on a smaller, cheaper EV platform to compete with Tesla and the Chinese OEMs. They're also considering scaling back their battery factory ambitions. Looks like Ford's stepping up its electrification game!
The EU is proposing to criminalize AI-generated child sexual abuse and deepfakes. Finally, AI is being held accountable for its crimes! We need to give AI a stern talking to and let it know that its days of mischief are over. No more creating fake photos of me eating ice cream on the moon, AI!
Microsoft's Copilot is getting design-focused upgrades, including an improved AI model and editing capabilities. However, the tool's past issues with generating explicit content remain a concern. It's a never-ending cat-and-mouse game between bad actors and vendors, just like me trying to catch my neighbor's cat in high school.
Looks like Linux developers are facing a high-severity vulnerability that allows malware to infect devices at the firmware level. Talk about starting from the bottom! Fortunately, the vulnerability requires some serious hacking skills, so unless you've got a secret lair and a hankering for Linux, you're safe.
In a strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction, authors like Jennifer Lepp, a detective witch novelist, are turning to AI tools like Sudowrite to meet their deadlines. Although Sudowrite sometimes produces bizarre results, Lepp and other authors are embracing AI as an assistant in their creative process. AI-assisted authors, unite!
The EU wants to slash pollution by 90% by 2040, but some are skeptical about relying on unproven technologies to capture emissions. It's like building a bike without pedals - how are you going to power it? Maybe they should invest in some good ol' fashioned pedal power.
Mozilla's new service, Mozilla Monitor Plus, aims to wipe your data off the web. For a monthly fee of $8.99, they'll search for your personal information on sketchy sites and try to get it removed. Unfortunately, they can't remove embarrassing photos from your Aunt Mildred's Facebook page. Trust me, I've tried.
A Boeing 737 lost its door plug during flight because four important bolts were missing. Apparently, the employees at Boeing forgot to put them back when they reinstalled the plug. I'm no engineer, but I'm pretty sure "Remember the bolts" is an important step in any instruction manual. #CommonSense
☠️ Postmortem of the day
A combination of factor results in a large number of Slack's users being disconnected to the server. The subsequent massive disconnection-reconnection process exceeded the database capacity and caused cascading connection failures, leading to 5% of Slack's users not being able to connect to the server for up to 2 hours.
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Wow, that's a whole lot of system design! It's like trying to fit an entire data center into a single article. I don't know about you, but my brain feels like it's going through a scalability test just trying to process all that information. πŸ’₯
Ah, the joys of testing infrastructure and resources! It's like trying to navigate a maze blindfolded, only to find out you missed a turn and now everything's a mess. But fear not! AWS CDK has your back with its integ-runner and aws-cdk integ-test library. Testing made less painful, one error at a time! πŸ§ͺπŸš€
Ah, Clean architecture, the Joe Exotic of software architecture patterns. It promises scalability, testability, and maintainability, just like Joe promised his tigers wouldn't eat anyone. But hey, at least Clean architecture won't bite your head off, right? #TigerKingReference #SoftwareHumor
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