October 5, 2024

Hardware

Apple Releases Urgent iOS 18 Patch To Fix Major Password Vulnerability

If you have any Apple devices running iOS 18, you’d better go make sure they have the latest security updates. That’s because Apple has just released fixes for some major flaws, including a bug that could apparently allow an attacker to make your device read your stored password aloud through the VoiceOver accessibility feature. That bug, known most officially as CVE-2024-44204, seems to come down to a logic problem in Apple’s new Passwords app, and

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AI

AI Agents: The Intersection of Tool Calling and Reasoning in Generative AI

Unpacking problem solving and tool-driven decision making in AI Tula Masterman · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 13 hours ago — Image by Author and GPT-4o depicting an AI agent at the intersection of reasoning and tool calling Introduction: The Rise of Agentic AI Today, new libraries and low-code platforms are making it easier than ever to build AI agents, also referred to as digital workers. Tool calling is

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Robotics

Researchers investigate how to design low-cost, highly reliable robots – The Robot Report

Listen to this article University researchers have developed an approach for making robots more reliable by adapting to varying levels of vulnerabilities. | Source: Adobe Stock Researchers from the University of Rochester, Georgia Tech, and the Shenzen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society have proposed a new approach for protecting robotics against vulnerabilities while keeping overhead costs low.  Millions of self-driving cars are projected to be on the road in 2025, and autonomous

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Robotics

XTEND drones rapidly evolve to support defense missions – The Robot Report

Listen to this article The Xtender is a micro tactical indoor ISR for multi-payload tasks in confined space scenarios. | Credit: XTEND XTEND’s stated mission is to “Win the mission and get home safely.” The drone company has been heavily involved in supporting the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, during current Middle East conflicts. Starting out as a gaming company, XTEND launched a league where “anyone could fly drones,” said Aviv Shapiro, co-founder and CEO.

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AI

Seamless Parsing of Nested JSON and Schema Evolution in DLT Without Restarting Pipelines

Based on a customer case study, an advanced tutorial on using Delta Live Tables to process JSON schema evolution without requiring to restart Irfan Elahi · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 14 min read · 22 hours ago — Generated via DALL-E Disclaimer: I am a solutions architect at Databricks. The views and opinions expressed in this article are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of Databricks. Schema evolution is a

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AI

RAG 101: Chunking Strategies

UNLOCK THE FULL POTENTIAL OF YOUR RAG WORKFLOW Why, When, and How to chunk for enhanced RAG Shanmukha Ranganath · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 16 hours ago — How do we split the balls? (Generated using Cava) The maximum number of tokens that a Large Language Model can process in a single request is known as context length (or context window). The table below shows the context length

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Hardware

OpenAI’s Canvas Tech May Transform How ChaptGPT Users Write And Create Code

OpenAI is rolling out its latest feature called Canvas, which is a new way for users to interact with ChatGPT for writing and coding tasks. Canvas can take advantage of OpenAI’s most advanced model, GPT4-o, which the company claims is capable of reasoning “across audio, vision, and text in real time.” There are some useful shortcuts available in Canvas for programmers looking to increase their productivity. While using Canvas, users can have ChatGPT review their

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Hardware

Google Outs Serious Cellular Security Vulnerabilities And How It’s Protecting Pixel Users

Google’s Pixel line-up of smartphones have long been among the best Android devices on the market, and our often touted as examples of what Google thinks a smartphone running its operating system should be. And it’s not just about the hardware and software, Pixel owners also get phones that offer great security, due to receiving constant Android updates for years after release. This includes mitigations for “common exploits on cellular basebands.” These cellular basebands are

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Hardware

Mediatek Dimensity 9400 Specs Leak With Arm Immortalis-925 GPU For Flagship Phones

MediaTek is expected to officially lift the wraps on a new flagship system-on-chip (SoC) next week, and specifically the Dimensity 9400, which will supplant the Dimensity 9300+ as the company’s top mobile chip. Ahead of the anticipated launch, a user on Weibo, a massive social media site in China, posted a handful of purported specifications. Assuming the information is accurate (and always take these things with a healthy pinch of salt, of course), the Dimensity

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AI

The Hindsight Guide to Replatforming

Dissecting the motivations, risks, and potential rewards of a software “heart transplant” Ethan Knox · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 22 hours ago — evolution of the powertrain — AI generated image created by Midjourney v6.1 I was sketching out architectural recommendations for a client project that, after a successful POC, was ready for the prime-time of production software. I stopped to ask myself why the new arch diagram

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