May 16, 2024

Hardware

Assassin’s Creed Shadows won’t be on Steam, doesn’t require always-online internet connection

Contrary to what you might’ve read, Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed Shadows game can be played entirely offline. 2 VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Assassin’s Creed fans rejoice: Ubisoft is finally making a game set in feudal Japan. It’s called Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and it’ll take place in 16th century Japan during Oda Nobunaga’s bloody quest to unify the country by force. Shadows also features two protagonists–a samurai and a ninja–and you’ll be able to switch

Derek Strickland May 16, 2024

CrowdStrike launches advanced SIEM to power the AI-native SOC at RSAC 2024

With attackers setting speed records for breakouts and tool download times, every security operations center (SOC) team needs to consider how AI can help bend time in their favor. It takes just two minutes and seven seconds to move laterally within a system after gaining access, and just 31 seconds for an attacker to download a toolkit and st…Read More

Louis Columbus May 16, 2024

OpenAI partners with Reddit to integrate unique user-generated content into ChatGPT

OpenAI and Reddit announce a groundbreaking partnership to revolutionize online communities and drive AI innovation by integrating cutting-edge AI-powered features and unique user-generated content.Read More

Michael Nuñez May 16, 2024

Hardware

TSMC to Expand Specialty Capacity by 50%, Introduce 4nm N4e Low-Power Node

With all the new fabs being built in Germany and Japan, as well as the expansion of production capacity in China, TSMC is planning to extend its production capacity for specialty technologies by 50% by 2027. As disclosed by the company during its European Technology Symposium this week, TSMC expects to need to not only convert existing capacity to meet demands for specialty processes, but even build new (greenfield) fab space just for this purpose.

Anton Shilov May 16, 2024

Honor of Kings gets a global rollout on June 20 on mobile

TiMi Studio Group and Level Infinite, both divisions of Tencent, have confirmed that Honor of Kings will have a global roll-out on June 20.Read More

Dean Takahashi May 16, 2024

Password Management and Protection – Part 2: What You Need to Know About Passwordless Logins | HackerNoon

We keep hearing about the move to passwordless logins. What does all this mean? Does it mean that we’re not going to have any way of checking who we are or that we’re moving to the advanced technology where we have retina scanning? Let’s delve into it in this blog post. What Is Authentication? Let’s start with authentication. Auth0 defines authentication as the process of proving some fact or document is genuine. A user proves their identity

Gearoid O'Treasaigh May 16, 2024

The Noonification: GitHub Copilot and the Endangered Code Monkey (5/16/2024) | HackerNoon

How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. By @ajar [ 9 Min read ] The rate of improvement for artificial intelligence, and in particular for GitHub Copilot, is so steep that a career pivot may be in order. Read More. By @davidjdeal

Noonification May 16, 2024

Robotics

Researchers wrestle with accuracy of AI technology used to create new drug candidates

Artificial intelligence (AI) has numerous applications in healthcare, from analyzing medical imaging to optimizing the execution of clinical trials, and even facilitating drug discovery. AlphaFold2, an artificial intelligence system that predicts protein structures, has made it possible for scientists to identify and conjure an almost infinite number of drug candidates for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. However recent studies have sown doubt about the accuracy of AlphaFold2 in modeling ligand binding sites, the areas on

Editor May 16, 2024

The Math Behind Nadam Optimizer

Nadam is one of the most capable optimizers in Deep Learning. Let’s delve into its math, and build the algorithm from scratch. Cristian Leo · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 18 min read · 7 hours ago — Image generated by DALL-E In our previous discussion on the Adam optimizer, we explored how Adam has transformed the optimization landscape in machine learning with its adept handling of adaptive learning rates. Known for its…

Cristian Leo May 16, 2024

Mastering GenAI ML System Design Interview: Principles & Solution Outline

Strategies and Insights from Both Sides of the Interview Table Jack Chih-Hsu Lin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 7 hours ago — Solving machine learning design is like completing a puzzle (Image by the author using ChatGPT) I still remember the moment vividly: during my ML design interview with Amazon, the interviewer simply dropped a few sentences in the chat about predicting the relevance of two objects (text

Jack Chih-Hsu Lin May 16, 2024