One of the least-discussed topics of the information age is the real-world cost of all the data we generate and consume. Our nomenclature for storing data doesn’t help — the “cloud” sounds wispy and ethereal, and the average user’s interactions with it are designed to be fast, easy, seamless and almost insubstantial.
Our mental picture is often that of a bunch of zeroes and ones…
GamesBeat Next features our 7th Women in Gaming Breakfast
October 20, 2023
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Anthropic, the “Constitutional AI” foundation model startup from San Francisco that is perhaps the foremost rival to OpenAI, made a big move this week, bringing its Claude 2 large language model (LLM) chatbot to 95 countries total, including:
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Securing generative AI starts with sustainable data centers
October 20, 2023
Enterprises are increasingly experiencing attacks on their artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with 41% having experienced an AI privacy breach, according to an August 2022 Gartner report. Twenty-five percent have experienced malicious, intentional attacks on their AI systems and infrastructure. Cyberattacks aimed at AI infrastructure most commonly focus on data poisoning (42%)…
Nation-state attackers are fine-tuning their tradecraft to take advantage of unprotected IoT sensors essential to infrastructure and manufacturing and increasing their attacks against U.S. and European targets. Once-sporadic attacks have given way to an all-out assault on…
SEC Drops Lawsuit Against Ripple Executives, All Charges Dismissed — Ripple Calls It 'a Surrender by SEC' – Legal Bitcoin News
October 20, 2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has dropped all charges against Ripple’s executives, CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen. “The SEC made a serious mistake going after Brad & Chris personally — and now, they’ve capitulated…
Pennsylvania State House Committee Passes Bill on 'Reporting Requirements' for Crypto Miners – Regulation Bitcoin News
October 20, 2023
The Environmental Resources and Energy Committee of the Pennsylvania General Assembly recently passed a bill which proposes “reporting requirements for qualifying crypto-asset mining operations.” Sponsor of the draft legislation Greg Vitali said the bill “doesn’t prohibit any cryptocurrency operation from operating in any way.”
Reporting Requirements for Crypto Miners
The Pennsylvania…
Tax Authorities in EU to Share Transaction Data Reported by Crypto Firms – Taxes Bitcoin News
October 20, 2023
New EU rules will introduce automated exchange of information on crypto revenues reported by service providers in the sector. A new directive adopted by the Union expands existing registration and reporting obligations as well as cooperation between tax administrations…
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC Higher, as SEC's Gensler Says Around 10 ETFs Are Being Reviewed – Market Updates Bitcoin News
October 20, 2023
Bitcoin edged slightly higher on Thursday, following comments from the Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler. Gensler said the commission was currently reviewing eight to ten applications from firms looking to launch a bitcoin…
The original EOS-M was significantly smaller than the DSLRs Canon was selling back at its launch in 2012.
Photo: Andy Westlake
Well, the writing has been on the wall for a while, but Canon’s Japanese website has finally confirmed the end of the EF-M system. Or, at least, is describing all the EOS-M camera models as being discontinued.
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Canon USA told PetaPixel…