Editorial
My mind was blown: running a 120B parameter AI model on a budget GPU at home
I’ve tried running plenty of open-source LLMs on my own computer, and anything larger than 32 billion parameters grinds to a halt. Then, some Redditor showed up, claiming you can run OpenAI’s newest 120B parameter model smoothly on a budget 8GB GPU. It sounded like pure fiction – until I tried it myself.
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The birth of the bionic pro
We are confidently embracing artificial intelligence tools – oblivious to how reckless and absurd some of the behaviour might be.
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Why you should keep your kids off the internet as much as possible: Roblox predators, pro-Nazi content, and other online monsters
With the abundance of destructive and harmful content, it’s about time we saw regulatory efforts to address the problem.
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Will AI go rogue now that it can bypass some CAPTCHA tests?
Just like nuclear armageddon, it will very much depend on us humans.
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One thousand and one nightmares of modern tech
I could keep you awake with tech scare stories for a thousand and one nights.
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The grind is dead – Gen Z’s CV is a TikTok feed
From AI interviews to unpaid internships, Gen Z is airing out the brutal job hunt on TikTok – and it’s resonating.
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The week in WTF Tech: productivity hype, VR forest, and Nazi pop gone mainstream
We’re constantly trying to hack the system, find ways to be more productive at work, read more books, and travel to as many cities as possible as soon as possible. Gosh, even our workout sessions are organized using spreadsheets.
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What a $30 billion cloud deal tells us about AI demand
A single line in a regulatory filing revealed Oracle’s $30 billion cloud deal, quietly signaling a shift in how the industry defines scale, ambition, and the future of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
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Call center staff say AI creates more problems than it solves
Researchers recently observed a team of call center agents at a regional power grid company in China and interviewed them about their experiences with a newly introduced (artificial intelligence) AI assistant. The study revealed that AI in call centers can create more problems than it solves.
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Authenticity wins in the age of influencers, but do you really have a story to tell?
During my darkest hours, I often contemplate the idea of turning my hobbies into my work so that I could quit the nine-to-five grind.
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Meta’s AI ambitions: hiring revolutionaries into a tech bureaucracy
After poaching staff from OpenAI and elsewhere, Mark Zuckerberg has a new plaything – Meta Superintelligence Labs. The tech giant obviously has loads of cash to do it, but will it succeed?
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AI’s mess: are we cleaning up more than what we’re saving?
If AI is so good, why don’t we work just four days a week? Right now, it seems like we’re sweating more than before just to clean up its mess.
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You’re in the office. Please, behave!
Has your office become a little bit too comfortable? People wearing slippers, bringing dogs, having long lunches together, and maybe even engaging in office romance?
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Emoji replies, ghosting, and the new digital disrespect
Tech has made staying connected easy, and staying polite harder. If you’ve ever been left on read, passive-aggressively “thumbs upped,” or Zoom-muted mid-sentence, you’re not alone.
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Brave, Firefox, or Tor: you can’t trust your browser to protect you from tracking
No browser offers complete protection from fingerprinting. While Firefox, Brave, Tor, or any other browser and tools have their strengths and weaknesses, never have the illusion that you’re untraceable.
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The most annoying thing about corporate culture
I listed a couple of things I myself find terribly annoying in the office.
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Why the US tops UFO sightings – it’s not aliens
America has duly adopted the lead believer of aliens over the decades, with over 100,000 sightings since 1947. But how do other countries compare?
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Disclosure or diversion? The battle over the UAPDA for the UFO community
The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act (UAPDA) has polarized the UAP /UFO community – some hail it as the first step toward transparency, while others see it as a calculated move to legitimize decades of secrecy and corporate control.
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What kind of toys will Mattel make with OpenAI – and should we be worried?
Mattel is teaming up with OpenAI to bring artificial intelligence into its toys – raising fresh concerns about child safety, surveillance, and the future of play.
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10 hilarious (not so much) dad jokes to celebrate Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to all programmers, developers, cybersecurity pros, and all kinds of IT gurus who rock the cyber realm every day.
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