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This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights, published today by Beacon Press and written by Washington Monthly Contributing Writer Joshua A. Douglas, a professor of law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. […]

It would be a mistake to believe Germany’s plans are limited to the stated mandates of its military missions.

The hype and awe around generative AI have waned to some extent. “Generalist” large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Gemini (formerly Bard), and Llama whip up smart-sounding sentences, but their thin domain expertise, hallucinations, lack of emotional intelligence, and obliviousness to current events can lead to terrible surprises. Generative AI exceeded our expectations until we needed it to be dependable, not just amusing.

As most IT people know, GPUs are in high demand and are critical for running and training generative AI models. The alternative cloud sector, also known as microclouds, is experiencing a significant surge. Businesses such as CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, Voltage Park, and Together AI are at the forefront of this movement. CoreWeave, which started as a cryptocurrency mining venture, has become a major provider of GPU infrastructure.

Oracle in its Spring 2024 roadmap for Java SE (Standard Edition) reconfirmed it will extend support for Java 11 through January 2032, and will support Java 8 and Java 11 on the Solaris operating system until at least December 2030 and January 2032 respectively.

The innovation hub of RSAC 2024, the RSAC Early Stage Expo was specifically designed to showcase emerging players in the information security industry. Among the 50 exhibitors crammed into the second floor booth space, seven VC-backed up-and-comers in application security and devsecops caught our eye.

Which conspiracy theories can we trust when it comes to the Church? Which ones are plausible and which ones are not?

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A new marine research centre has opened in Dartmouth, N.S., to co-ordinate the sophisticated underwater platforms used by Canada to gather ocean data.

Kanika Maheshwari moved to Brampton from India in 2020 to study business management. Her dream, she says, was to open a jewelry business one day.

Solve this puzzle and find a class of organic chemicals

Manchester United host Newcastle United at Old Trafford on Wednesday evening.

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Astronomers discovered a planet 66 million light-years away that is covered in erupting volcanoes, as the influence of other large worlds squeezes the planet and drives volcanism.

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This Wireless Car Adapter is on sale for $90 and supports streaming services like Spotify and Netflix, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto.

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Did OpenAI outshine Google before the search giant's big event? Here's what OpenAI's ChatGPT announcement means for Google I/O.

The sentence given to Nottingham killer Valdo Calocane was not "unduly lenient", senior judges have ruled.

Dutch authorities said that children's vulnerabilities are being exploited to get them to make purchases. Photo: Shutterstock

This week, The New York Times released new polls that sent shock waves through the Democratic establishment, finding Donald Trump leading in all six key swing states, in some cases by startling margins. While President Biden has fared better in other recent polls, the bottom line is that he is trailing in all the swing-state polling averages. So we checked in with Jefrey Pollack, a top pollster for the Biden campaign, who laid out why he thinks it’s premature to read too much into these polls... Читать дальше...

There's nothing quite as expensive as being poor. That's what one woman who was looking for affordable transportation claims she found out after purchasing a supposed bargain on Facebook Marketplace.

Scientists have discovered a bizarre, red-glowing exoplanet named TOI-6713.01, which is loaded with active volcanoes and may be 'melting from within.'