Telegram will allow to limit the circle of authors of private messages for Ukraine, Russia and Belarus — Durov
Starting next week, Telegram is introducing the ability to limit the number of people who write personal messages to residents of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. About wrote Pavel Durov, owner of the messenger.
GPT Store «deflated»? In February, customized chatbots accounted for 1.5% of visits to the ChatGPT website
OpenAI expected personalized chatbots to boost its business, but recent data shows that few people are interested in them.
Claude 3 AI model surpasses GPT-4 for the first time at Chatbot Arena
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus Large Language Model (LLM) has outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-4 for the first time by Chatbot Arena.
Twitch bans broadcasting gameplay on breasts and buttocks
Twitch has updated its community guidelines and banned the focus on breasts and buttocks. According to the update, starting March 29, «content that focuses on intimate body parts for a long period of time will not be allowed».
iOS 18 with artificial intelligence and a new home screen — what to expect from the «biggest update» in iPhone history
It is expected that iOS 18 will be presented at this year’s Apple WWDC 2024 developer conference, scheduled for June 10.
Waiting for X Elite: Google has created Chrome for laptops with Snapdragon processors
Google has introduced a version of Chrome for Windows laptops running on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. According to two unnamed partner companies, the Snapdragon version of Chrome demonstrates «significant performance improvements». The new version of Chrome is already available for download.
A patient's account, online marriage, and services for veterans: Fedorov spoke about the expected services in the «Diia» app
Mykhailo Fedorov, the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, spoke during the telethon about new services that will be available in the «Diia» app in the near future. According to him, users should expect to see medical services, including a patient’s office, appear.
MacPaw releases updated ClearVPN with one-click activation of online security and privacy
The Ukrainian company MacPaw has announced the release of a new version of ClearVPN — a VPN solution for anonymous connection. This version has an updated user interface. Now you just need to press one button to activate the service, and ClearVPN’s intelligent algorithm will automatically select the best server for a fast, reliable, and…
What do you think, Hollywood? 7 new videos generated by OpenAI's Sora with tips from directors, writers and artists
OpenAI is constantly publishing new videos generated by Sora neural network based on conventional text prompts, but the tool is still not available to the public — except for a select group of artists who have been given the opportunity to test the new product.
Telegram offers a free premium subscription. But in return, it requires you to disclose your phone number to strangers
Telegram offers a new way to get a premium subscription for free. To do so, you just need to voluntarily provide your phone number to send one-time passwords (OTPs) to other users. While this may look appealing, at first glance, it’s not really a good idea — especially for a messaging service that is based on privacy.
MPs propose to regulate Telegram and other information sharing platforms
A group of MPs has registered a new draft law No. 11115aimed at regulating the Telegram messenger.
The Windows «Disk Formatting» interface, created as a temporary one, has remained unchanged for almost 30 years
There is a common rule among developers: if something works well, don’t touch it. Perhaps it’s because of this rule that one of the most popular features in Windows operating systems hasn’t changed for almost 30 years – the «Format» command window. Although it was originally created as a temporary solution, the window…
Microsoft to improve text rendering in Chrome on Windows PCs
After years of complaints, Microsoft has finally made changes to Chromium that should improve text rendering in Google’s browser on Windows computers.
Opera records 164% increase in iOS — users (spoiler: DMA helped)
The Digital Marketplace Act (DMA), which came into force on March 7, provides for free choice of a given browser for EU users, among other things.
US authorities demand that Google disclose the identities of viewers of certain YouTube videos
The US federal government requested from Google the names, addresses, phone numbers, and activities of account users who watched certain YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023. People who watched these videos without logging in were also not safe, as the government also requested their IP addresses. Investigators are demanding that…
AI models can be easily distorted by buying $60 domains or editing Wikipedia — research
A group of artificial intelligence researchers recently discovered that for as little as $60, an attacker can tamper with the datasets generated by AI tools like ChatGPT.
Social network X Twitter will become the new YouTube — video app X for TVs
Recently, the publication Fortune reported that Elon Musk is planning to launch X Twitter as a video service on smart TVs. And now, researcher Nima Owji has published a video on X that demonstrates the interface of the future application.
Windows subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface
It should be noted that we are not talking about the Linux GUI in Windows, but about the implementation of some functions of the Windows for Linux (WSL) subsystem in the Microsoft OS interface. The company has created a graphical implementation of some Linux distribution management tools, including selection and launch.
Most Windows games should «just work» on future laptops with Snapdragon ─ Qualcomm processors
During the Game Developers Conference, Qualcomm informed game developers that their games should already run on the wave of upcoming Windows laptops based on Snapdragon chips. To launch games, there will be no need to port games to the Qualcomm platform.
«Action» now contains educational documents
After a short period of testing, the Ministry of Digital Transformation has introduced full support for educational documents using the «Action» relationship. This means that users will no longer need to search through their school certificates and ask their relatives to help them find their diplomas.
AMD announces FSR 3.1 and releases AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 with support for Dragon's Dogma 2
During the Game Developers Conference (GDC), AMD has unveiled a new version of its FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) 3.1 scaling and frame generation technology, which offers a number of key updates:
Steam has a new category of system requirements for games - Ultra
Currently, Steam lists two system configurations in the «System Requirements» section for games. One of them lists the «Minimum» system requirements needed to run the game. However, you should not expect high performance or picture quality in such cases.
Inner Monologue: Artificial Intelligence Has Been Taught to Think (Was It Really Possible?)
A new study shows that giving artificial intelligence systems «internal monologue» makes their results significantly better. Essentially, AI has been trained to think before it answers queries, just as humans think about what they have to say next before they speak. This is different from how popular AI language models such as ChatGPT behave. The…
OpenAI boss Sam Altman says the world «doesn't need another copy of Google» because it's «boring»
Instead, developers should focus on creating new ways for people to search and analyze information.
AMD adds Zen 5 support to GCC Linux compiler
AMD has added support for its upcoming Zen 5 microarchitecture-based processors to the GCC compiler. Znver5 is now a target in the GCC Git repository until the stable release of GCC 14.1. This move ensures that developers will have the necessary compiler support for Ryzen and EPYC processors based on Zen 5 before their release later this year.
Nvidia launches platform with generative AI to create humanoid robots
Generative AI will help robots perform actions based on input — a combination of text and speech, video, «human demonstrations» and previous experience.
Microsoft stops supporting 1024-bit RSA keys in Windows
Microsoft has announced that RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits will soon be deprecated in Windows Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide increased security.
Roblox launches AI-based tools to improve 3D content creation
Roblox has introduced two new AI-based tools aimed at facilitating the creation of 3D content on its platform. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company demonstrated Avatar Auto Setup and Texture Generator, which promise to significantly speed up the process of creating avatars and texturing objects.
YouTube adds a tool for labeling content created by artificial intelligence
YouTube has announced that authors can independently label videos that contain artificial or artificially generated content.
OpenAI to launch prepaid billing API on March 25
Instead of monthly billing, the company will provide a certain number of credits for using its API or Playground.
PSSR technology is designed to provide 4K 120 fps and 8K 60 fps output on PlayStation consoles
The next version of the PlayStation 5 Pro game console will support the new PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) technology. It is designed to enable the console to display games at 4K 120 fps and 8K 60 fps. This is a kind of analog of DLSS.
Modern sites have become so «bloated» that they cannot be pulled by budget smartphones capable of running PUBG
Simply loading the page can crash budget phones that can easily «pull» the mobile version of PUBG at 40 frames per second, according to report Danluu.com.
Steam sets a new record with over 36 million simultaneous players
Steam continues to set records for the number of simultaneous users for the third week in a row. Since the beginning of spring, user activity has been increasing every weekend, and this week it has set a new record.
Elon Musk «declassified» the source code of his chatbot Grok — without training data yet
From now on, developers and researchers will be able to use the architecture on which Grok operates in their own projects.
GPT-4 artificial intelligence is able to play Doom and does not hesitate when shooting at virtual objects in the form of people
Microsoft scientist and York University researcher Adrian de Winter recently decided to test GPT-4 by running Doom without prior training. The results of this experiment concluded that GPT-4 can play Doom with a certain degree of efficiency without prior training. Although this requires the GPT-4V interface to see the AI and the addition of…
EU takes on AliExpress — the site is accused of distributing porn and other illegal content
The European Commission has launched an official investigation into AliExpress, the international e-commerce website run by Chinese tech giant Alibaba.
Proton email app is out of beta and available for Windows and macOS
The Proton desktop email application has left beta and is now available to all paid users on Windows and macOS. At the same time, Proton is also releasing a beta version of the app for Linux.
TikTok CEO calls on users in the US to «defend their constitutional rights»
Shortly after that, US House of Representatives bans TikTokCEO Shou Chu urged users «to protect their constitutional rights». Chu also hinted that TikTok would file a legal action if the bill is finally passed.
The popular VLC media player will be released on Apple Vision Pro. But not very soon, because the developers have no motivation
Apple’s Vision Pro headset still lacks many of the applications familiar to iOS and macOS users. Some major developers have already stated that they are not interested in porting their apps to Vision Pro. However, the developers of the VLC media player have a different view.
US House of Representatives bans TikTok, bill sent to Senate
On Wednesday, March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives supported a bill to ban TikTok in the United States. The bill requires the video service to be separated from the Chinese parent company ByteDance within 6 months, and if this does not happen, TikTok will be banned in the country.
Google DeepMind has created SIMA, an AI model that plays games. They don't know why — yet.
Google’s DeepMind lab has unveiled SIMA — a learning artificial intelligence model that will play games for you. It’s customized to play more like a human than a superhuman artificial intelligence. SIMA, which stands for Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, is currently just a research experiment.
Midjourney is testing a function that will allow «to save» the image of a given character to generate future images
From now on, users can provide the neural network with a reference image of a person and set up the generation so that the next image looks the same.
The Ministry of Defense and DeepStateUA signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to improve information exchange on the situation at the front
Press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said on signing a Memorandum of Cooperation with the DeepStateUA project. This cooperation is expected to improve the processing of data on the course of hostilities.
Google, Apple, and Mozilla release Speedometer 3.0 — a benchmark for browsers
Speedometer has long been Google’s favorite benchmark because it «best reflects the real world» compares JavaScript performance. Now available in Speedometer 3.0.
Epic Games will charge $1850 per year for developers who use Unreal Engine for other purposes than gaming
Epic Games has announced a new pricing scheme for developers creating non-gaming products using the Unreal Engine. The company will charge an annual subscription «per seat» of $1850. The term «per» seat actually means «person using» software. These changes will take effect with the release of Unreal Engine 5.4 at the end of April.
Apple to allow distribution of iOS apps in the EU on developer sites
A few days after Apple allowed iOS users in the EU to use third-party app stores, the company announced additional changes related to how developers can distribute their apps. Now, those developers who meet certain criteria will be able to allow users to download apps from their websites.
Virus spreads on X due to an ad for actress Sydney Sweeney's nudes
The topic «Sidney Sweeney Leak» has become especially popular on Elon Musk’s social media, but in the end, it leads users not to exclusive nude images of the actress, but to malware.
«The Ukrainian interface was actually knocked out» — ex-director of Google Ukraine on localization of services
Dmytro Sholomko, who headed Google’s representative office in Ukraine for 17 years (and resigned last October), gave an interview to the DOU publication and, among other things, touched upon the topic of Ukrainian localization of the company’s services.
Microsoft releases Work Graphs API that enables advanced GPU-based rendering
Microsoft has released a new Agility Software Development Kit that provides new features. Agility SDK 1.613 includes Shader Model 6.8 and support for Work Graphs API. The latter is an important feature that will facilitate the use of rendering on GPU drivers, offloading the CPU. GPUs will be able to generate work for themselves «on the fly». This…
Midjourney bans Stability AI employees after data theft attempt
At the beginning of the month, the service faced a 24-hour outage — allegedly due to «botnet activity» two accounts associated with a competitor company, Stability AI.
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