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Every night for three months, I strapped a futuristic-looking device onto my face—something like a Stormtrooper mask designed by a spa technician from the year 3000. Depending on my mood, I toggled through the vibration therapy settings. Some nights I meditated; most nights I just lay there, scrolling through TikTok while my face bathed in red light.This was the TheraFace Mask: an FDA-cleared LED therapy device from Therabody, the wellness brand best known for its percussive massage guns. Now, it’s coming for our faces. Of course it is. LED masks are the new face of Silicon Valley’s obsession with biohacking;…

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If you’re building with AI, or trying to defend against the less savoury side of the technology, Meta just dropped new Llama security tools. The improved security tools for the Llama AI models arrive alongside fresh resources from Meta designed to help cybersecurity teams harness AI for defence. It’s all part of their push to make developing and using AI a bit safer for everyone involved. Developers working with the Llama family of models now have some upgraded kit to play with. You can grab these latest Llama Protection tools directly from Meta’s own Llama Protections page, or find them…

Even security experts can be fooled. In July 2024, Knowbe4, a Florida-based company that offers security training, discovered that a new hire known as “Kyle” was actually a foreign agent. “He interviewed great,” says Brian Jack, KnowBe4’s chief information security officer. “He was on camera, his résumé was right, his background check cleared, his ID cleared verification. We didn’t have any reason to suspect this wasn’t a valid candidate.” But when his facilitator—the US-based individual giving him cover—tried to install malware on Kyle’s company computer, the security team caught on and shut him out.Back in london, Simon Wijckmans couldn’t let…

Apple “willfully chose not to comply” with a court order to loosen its app store restrictions—and one of its executives lied under oath about the company’s plans, a federal judge wrote on Wednesday.Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has referred the situation to the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco “to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.”Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In 2021, Gonzalez Rogers presided over a lawsuit brought by Fortnite developer Epic Games over the iPhone maker’s allegedly anticompetitive practices that hampered the ability of developers to generate revenue from the App Store. This included…

Another source told WIRED that Sweet has also been using the tool at other parts of HUD. WIRED reviewed a copy of the output of the AI’s review of one HUD department, which features columns displaying text that the AI model found to be needing an adjustment while also including suggestions from the AI for alterations to be made, essentially proposing rewrites. The spreadsheet details how many words can be eliminated from individual regulations and gives a percentage figure indicating how noncompliant the regulations are. It isn’t clear how these percentages are calculated.Sweet did not respond to requests for comment…

Meta has updated the privacy policy for its AI glasses, Ray-Ban Meta, giving the tech giant more power over what data it can store and use to train its AI models. The company emailed Ray-Ban Meta owners on Tuesday with a notice that AI features will now be enabled on the glasses by default, according to The Verge. This means Meta’s AI will analyze photos and videos taken with the glasses while certain AI features are switched on. Meta will also store customers’ voice recordings to improve its products, without an option to opt out. To be clear, Ray-Ban Meta…

Researchers have trained a new kind of large language model (LLM) using GPUs dotted across the world and fed private as well as public data—a move that suggests that the dominant way of building artificial intelligence could be disrupted.Flower AI and Vana, two startups pursuing unconventional approaches to building AI, worked together to create the new model, called Collective-1.Flower created techniques that allow training to be spread across hundreds of computers connected over the internet. The company’s technology is already used by some firms to train AI models without needing to pool compute resources or data. Vana provided sources of…

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language for managing and manipulating relational databases. It allows users to perform various operations on data stored in a database, such as querying data, updating records, inserting new data, and deleting existing records. SQL is essential for interacting with database management systems (DBMS) like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, and Microsoft SQL Server. SQL commands are broadly categorized into several types, including: Data Query Language (DQL): Used for querying data from the database (e.g., SELECT). Data Definition Language (DDL): Used for defining and modifying database schema (e.g., CREATE, ALTER, DROP). Data Manipulation Language…

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