June 19, 2024

Hardware

AMD Investigates Data Breach For Theft Of Future Product Detail And Source Code

It appears that AMD is now the latest victim of cybercrime and a data breach, as company data is being offered for sale on a message board frequented by criminal hackers. AMD acknowledged the situation in a statement, noting that, “we are aware of a cybercriminal organization claiming to be in possession of stolen AMD data.” The company added that it’s currently working with law enforcement officials and third-party partners to investigate the validity of these

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Hardware

AMD’s Radeon 890M RDNA 3.5 GPU Obliterates 780M In Early Benchmarks

It wasn’t all that long ago that the idea of using integrated graphics for gaming was strictly a last resort endeavor. Chips like Intel’s Graphics Media Accelerator and even early integrated Radeon parts weren’t powerful enough for much beyond displaying a basic desktop. Putting aside the fact that game consoles have been using “integrated graphics” for three generations now, even PC gamers are coming around to the idea, thanks to the explosive popularity of the

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Second World Games launches Fantasy Troop and raises $3M in token presale

GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.  Second World Games announced the launch of its Fantasy Troop, a fantasy league for Web3 gaming, integrated into the company’s Second World: New Era game. Alongside this launch, the company has

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Hardware

Gemini In Google Messages Expands To Most Android Phones, See If Yours Is Supported

Google is making its Gemini in Google Messages available to any Android smartphone that features 6GB of RAM or higher. Initially, the feature was only available on Google Pixel devices and Samsung Galaxy phones, but the updated requirements should open it up to most Android handsets. Earlier this year, Google announced its Gemini in Messages feature. The new feature allows users to access the Gemini AI chatbot from within the Messages app. Whether asking for

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Here’s the Most Bug-Like Robot Bug Yet

2 min read Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum’s robotics editor. Robot bug comes in for a landing. Shanghai Jong Tong University Insects have long been an inspiration for robots. The insect world is full of things that are tiny, fully autonomous, highly mobile, energy efficient, multimodal, self-repairing, and I could go on and on but you get the idea—insects are both an inspiration and a source of frustration to roboticists because it’s so hard to

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Hardware

Nintendo Direct: Zelda Echoes Of Wisdom, Metroid Prime 4, Mario And Luigi RPG And More

The latest Nintendo Direct was chock full of games, with just about something for everyone in the gaming company’s wide audience. It was a solid showing in what’s probably the last big Direct event for the current Switch hardware as the Switch 2 looms on the horizon. However, some of the games shown off certainly stood out from the crowd, and as expected it was from well known franchises such as Mario, The Legend of

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AI

Analyzing Unstructured PDF Data w/ Embedding Models and LLMs

How to turn PDFs into actionable insights Justin Laughlin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 4 days ago — Image by the author We live in a world with extremely messy data, this much almost any data scientist or analyst knows. It’s almost inevitable that any data science project you start, the hardest part of the entire project will be acquiring, packaging and cleaning data in a way that

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AI

Nailing the Machine Learning Design Interview

Tips and tricks for FAANG design interviews Rhea Goel · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 1 day ago — Generated via Dall-E I’m a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon and have been on both sides of the table for several Machine Learning Design interview questions. I’m hoping to share all the tips and tricks I have learned over time. By the end of this article, you’ll understand what to

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AI

From English Literature to Data Science

How did I land a job in data science? Yiğit Aşık · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 5 min read · 3 days ago — I was thinking about posting here on a more consistent basis, and what’s better than starting with my own story? I made the transition that many want to, and landed a job in data science coming from a non-technical background (no STEM degree, no social science degree). It

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AI

Counts Outlier Detector: Interpretable Outlier Detection

An interpretable outlier detector based on multi-dimensional histograms. W Brett Kennedy · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 18 min read · 20 hours ago — This article continues a series on interpretable outlier detection. The previous article (Interpretable Outlier Detection: Frequent Patterns Outlier Factor (FPOF) ) covered the FPOF algorithm, as well as some of the basics of outlier detection and interpretability. This builds on that, and presents Counts Outlier Detector, another interpretable

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