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Elon Musk’s xAI announces Grok-1.5 Vision, with multimodal capability

Last month, Elon Musk launched Grok-1.5 LLM days after Google launched Gemini 1.5. While Musk’s xAI claimed that its model is close to the GPT-4 performance, it doesn’t have multimodal capability. However, the company’s recently announced Grok-1.5 Vision doesn’t have that limitation, as it can process both text and visual information. What’s Grok-1.5 Vision (Grok-1.5V) […]

Google users say two-factor authentication didn’t protect them. Hashtag Trending for Monday, April 15th

Early Saturday morning listeners may have missed my weekend interview segment with Senator Colin Deacon. If you did, it was totally my fault. A typo in my posting instructions meant we didn’t get it online til late Saturday morning. But if you didn’t get a chance to listen, it’s still there, and it’s really worthwhile. […]

Ex-Security Engineer Jailed 3 Years for $12.3 Million Crypto Exchange Thefts

A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million. Shakeeb Ahmed, the defendant in question, pled guilty to one count of computer fraud in December 2023 following his arrest in July. “At the time of both attacks,

Firebird RAT creator and seller arrested in the U.S. and Australia

A joint police operation between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the FBI has led to the arrest and charging of two individuals who are believed to be behind the development and distribution of the “Firebird” remote access trojan (RAT), later rebranded as “Hive.” […]

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