August 1, 2024

Hardware

Intel Bleeds Red, Plans 15% Workforce Layoff and $10B Cuts For 2025

Amidst the backdrop of a weak quarterly earnings report that saw Intel lose money for the second quarter in a row, Intel today has announced that the company will be cutting costs by $10 billion in 2025 in an effort to bring Intel back to profitability. The cuts will touch almost every corner of the company in some fashion, with Intel planning to cut spending on R&D, marketing, administration, and capital expenditures. The most significant

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Software

Information Overload: How AI With Research Content Curation Could Lead the Way | HackerNoon

Nowadays, we are constantly bombarded with such a high volume of information from various sources. This massive influx of data, coupled with the development of content generation from AI, undoubtedly gives us greater access to knowledge than we’ve ever had before. However, it also brings in the problem of information overload. Think of a typical working day for yourself or a colleague. You might open your inbox, which is absolutely stacked with threads, internal bulletins,

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‘Uncanny’: ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode is blowing minds

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It was criticized by Scarlett Johansson. It was delayed by more than a month. And now that it’s finally here, only a select few customers in an “alpha” group have access to the new ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode from OpenAI, a more naturalistic, human-like audio conversational mode for the hit chatbot available through the official ChatGPT

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Software

Security Risk Advisors Announces Launch of VECTR Enterprise Edition | HackerNoon

**PHILADELPHIA, United States, August 1st, 2024/CyberNewsWire/–**Security Risk Advisor(SRA) announces the launch of VECTR Entreprise Edition, a premium version of its widely-used VECTR platform for purple teams and adversary management program reporting and benchmarking. VECTR Enterprise is designed to support organizations that want to mature and communicate the success of their purple team exercises with benchmarking and executive reporting features. “We’re excited to release VECTR Enterprise to help CISOs and their teams clearly tell the story

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How I Built an AI Programmer to Automate GitHub Issue Fixes 🤯 | HackerNoon

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been diligently working on a rapidly growing repository at Composio. We soon realized that tasks such as updating ReadMes, fixing docstrings, and making minor bug fixes—though repetitive and mundane—were consuming much of our bandwidth. So, I thought, why not build an AI-powered autonomous agent to handle these grunt works? We wanted an AI agent that could. Access the GitHub repository. Take any given issue and write a solution for

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aiOla drops ultra-fast ‘multi-head’ speech recognition model, beats OpenAI Whisper 

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today, Israeli AI startup aiOla announced the launch of a new, open-source speech recognition model that is 50% faster than OpenAI’s famous Whisper. Officially dubbed Whisper-Medusa, the model builds on Whisper but uses a novel “multi-head attention” architecture that predicts far more tokens at a time than the OpenAI offering. Its code and weights have been

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16 Key Principles for Tech-Led Startups to Scale Efficiently | HackerNoon

After a few years at a start-up turned scale-up, learning a few hard lessons along the way, I decided to share some principles I think are universal. I’m sure there’ll be exceptions, like start-ups with near-unlimited runways funded by a generous benefactor, but for the rest of us, we have only so much time before we have to call it quits. Two goals will influence all the principles I share. Achieving speed. Propelling growth. I’ll

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Stable Diffusion creators launch Black Forest Labs, secure $31M for FLUX.1 AI image generator

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Black Forest Labs, a startup founded by the original creators of Stable Diffusion, unveiled its brand new FLUX.1 text-to-image model suite today, injecting new life into the open-source artificial intelligence community. This launch marks a potential watershed moment for accessible and powerful generative AI technology. We are excited to announce the launch of Black Forest Labs.

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Software

How to Improve Your Blog Posts by Proofreading With ChatGPT | HackerNoon

Why Spend Time on Proofreading? Should accuracy and attention to detail be important even under tight deadlines? Well, yes. But a limited time frame won’t be a problem once you learn how to conduct proofreading quickly and efficiently. Checking blog posts’ accuracy is a part of my job, but the proposed techniques work for any type of longer text. I use them for university essays or extensive social media publications. And I find something to

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