Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - OpenAI's formal GPT-4 paper breaks with the AI practice of disclosing a program's technical details.

Enterprise -- Planet Ubuntu - Kubernetes vs OpenStack is a common dilemma that organisations face when considering the modernisation of their IT infrastructure. Both are well-established open-source technologies for building cloud infrastructure, and both bring tangible...

Life -- Psychology Today - New research uses Fourier analysis and a novel approach to understand how AI deep neural networks learn to perform functions that involve complex physics.

Infosec -- Dark Reading - DDoS cyberattack campaigns from the pro-Russian group have spiked significantly.

Infosec -- Flashpoint - Our new report dives into the perpetual cycles of cybercrime and shows organizations how consolidated intelligence empowers them to fight back

Infosec -- CSO Online - AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities present a huge opportunity for digital transformation but open yet another threat surface that CISOs and risk professionals will have to keep tabs on. Accordingly, CISOs will need to direct their...

Business Wire -- Lucy(r) launches LucyGPT, an AI-powered subject matter expert that liberates corporate knowledge.

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - If you've been around our little corner of the web for any amount of time, you're probably aware that we absolutely LOVE to give stuff away. Chromebooks, smart home stuff, swag, whatever! We have the best readers and followers out there...

Life -- Psychology Today - Despite some built-in safeguards, it's currently not that hard to get ChatGPT to generate misinformation.

Life -- Phys.org - The massive constellation of satellites operated by SpaceX, while still growing, will soon be joined in low Earth orbit by many more commercial competitors, but also government-sponsored programs.

Think -- Gartner Blog Network - At a time when Generative AI and ChatGPT is all over the news - Toby Walsh (Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of New South Wales and CSIRO's Data61) will be delivering an exciting and very topical Guest Keynote...

Infosec -- Dark Reading - Between March 3 and March 9, at least 2,000 people a day downloaded the malicious "Quick access to ChatGPT" Chrome extension from the Google Play app store.

Electronics -- IEEE Spectrum - ChatGPT has wowed the world with the depth of its knowledge and the fluency of its responses, but one problem has hobbled its usefulness: It keeps hallucinating.Yes, large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, a concept popularized by Google...

Enterprise -- The Register - Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts

NASA is ready to fly a crew of astronauts to the Moon next year after the success of the first test flight of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket...

Business Wire -- Data science teams using Amazon SageMaker can now connect to UiPath to quickly and seamlessly connect new ML models into business processes.

Life -- Lifehacker - Your smartphone has ruined your life. You're hopelessly addicted to the empty dopamine drip doled out by algorithms that know you better than you know yourself. You recognize this. But also, you're no hermit. You want to keep in touch with...

Tech -- AmateurLogic.TV - AmateurLogic.TV Episode 179 is now available for download.

George takes to the swamp for a 50 Kilowatt 'Tales From The Transmitter Site'. Tommy explores BlueDV OTG. Mike builds a dual band Yagi for working the satellites.

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Tech -- NY Times Technology - New artificial intelligence technology is roiling Silicon Valley. For now, the most obvious ways to use it are in software like Microsoft's suite of products.

Tech -- Digital Trends - ChatGPT is now available within Slack, and can be used for summarizing conversations, answering questions, or drafting quick replies. Here's how to use it.

Tech -- Addictive Tips - VNC is useful for remote access to Linux servers and Desktops. VNC is also great on Windows, as an alternative to RDP. However, there isn't a native VNC client on Chrome OS. Thankfully, Chrome OS can run Linux apps. Here's how to get...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Google has been making strides in improving the sign-in experience for its users. Since last year, the company has been actively seeking ways to reduce the traditional use of passwords (read: It wants to kill passwords entirely). Now,...

Tech -- The Verge - It makes sense that LinkedIn would be the first major social network to push AI-generated content on its users. The Microsoft-owned company is weird. It's corporate. It's full of workfluencer...

Tech -- The Verge - Microsoft is making ChatGPT available in its own Azure OpenAI service today. Developers and businesses will now be able to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT model into their own cloud apps, enabling conversational...

Tech -- GeekWire - Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie prepping for the company's 2023 Accessibility Summit. (Microsoft Photo)Microsoft's Accessibility Summit has come a long way since its inaugural event 13 years ago. What began as a meeting...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - The prospects for global broadband connectivity are looking up, quite literally.

This, as Amazon on Tuesday (March 14) revealed a first look of the latest progress in its planned constellation network of 3,236 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

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Media -- PYMNTS.com - Apple is reportedly cutting costs, though not making deep cuts and layoffs like its peers.

The tech giant is delaying some bonuses, limiting hiring and reducing travel, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (March 14), citing unnamed sources.

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Media -- PYMNTS.com - "ChatGPT is going to be in everything," said General Motors Vice President Scott Miller.

And eventually, that "everything" could include your new Chevy or Buick.

The automaker is exploring the use of ChatGPT in its vehicles, Reuters reported...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Globe Newswire -- Technology - New generation serverless event middleware for building event-driven applications has graduated to Top-Level Project. New generation serverless event middleware for building event-driven applications has graduated to Top-Level Project.

Media -- Makezine - Raspberry Pi has just announced a new camera module for machine vision enthusiasts and folks wanting a little more quality in motion photography. This unit boasts a global shutter. For those that don't know what a global shutter is or why...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - The viral success of ChatGPT points to the huge potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools to be a major game-changer for businesses.

In the spend management space, for example, Jamie Anderson, chief revenue officer at U.K....

Think -- MIT Technology Review - Thank you for joining us on "The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity."

Globe Newswire -- Technology - Positioned as a Leader for the 13th Consecutive Time Positioned as a Leader for the 13th Consecutive Time

Media -- Control.com News - In observance of International Women's Day, we look at the current state of women in STEM education and careers, paying particular attention to the presence of women in engineering.

Life -- Lifehacker - Microsoft announced 11 new features to Windows 11 in a blog post on Tuesday. It won't come as a surprise to anyone watching Microsoft's latest moves to learn the announcement focused on AI-specifically, the company's move to implement the...

Media -- ElectronicsB2B - Tesla's Model Y stood firm as the globally best-selling model in electric vehicles, followed by BYD's Song in Q4 2022 Battery EVs accounted for almost 72% of all EV sales, while plug-in hybrid EVs accounted for the remaining 28% in the...

Think -- Gartner Blog Network - Roughly 7 out of 10 enterprise network service buyers indicated their budgets will remain the same or increase in 2023. Preliminary results from survey fielded February 20 to March 3, 2023. Stay tuned for more insights.

Tech -- AmateurLogic.TV - Ham College episode 98 is now available for download.

Extra Class Exam Questions - Part 36

E7F DSP filtering and other operations, software defined radio fundamentals, DSP modulation and demodulation.

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Media -- PYMNTS.com - Microsoft is venturing further into artificial intelligence (AI) with a series of new business tools.

The software giant debuted Monday (March 6) its Dynamics 365 Copilot tool, the latest example of Big Tech putting its AI efforts center...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Apple is reportedly battling with an email app creator over its use of AI-powered tools.

A report Thursday (March 2) by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) says that the tech giant has delayed OKing an update of the BlueMail app that uses artificial...

Infosec -- Malwarebytes Unpacked - People working remotely is no longer unusual, so the National Security Agency (NSA) has produced a short Best Practices PDF document detailing how remote workers can keep themselves safe from harm. In fact, the guide can also be...

Tech -- ExtremeTech - Microsoft has made headlines with its recent integration of the wunderkind AI chatbot ChatGPT into its Bing search engine. Not all of those headlines have been positive. The AI has been a bit, let's say, unpredictable so far. It told a New...

Tech -- Digital Trends - LastPass was hacked repeatedly in 2022, and the company has just disclosed how it happened. The revelations don't look good for the prominent password manager.

Tech -- Liliputing - Qualcomm's Snapdragon Satellite technology for smartphones allows users to point their phones at a sky to send and receive messages even when they're off-grid and unable to connect to terrestrial cellular networks. The chip maker introduced...

Life -- Lifehacker - Google's Magic Eraser is one of the company's most impressive (and one of its most advertised) features. Who wouldn't like the ability to instantly erase unwanted people or objects from any photo? And while the feature was a Pixel exclusive...

Infosec -- Naked Security - New report admits that attackers were detected in the network about three months ago, and may have been attacking for about three years.

Life -- Reader's Digest - When an automobile manufacturer issues a recall-and offers free parts and services to fix the issue-it makes sense to go to the dealership and get it done. It's the same when Apple issues a software update. Sometimes updates are issued...

Life -- NASA Image of the day - Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962.

Tech -- The Verge - Bing is now available as a contact in Skype. You can chat to it directly or add it to other conversations. | Image: Microsoft

Think -- HBR.org - Inside the cultural turnaround that helped the tech giant think like a startup.