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ChatGPT message meltdown, Neuralink patient moves cursor, and user-tracking in Chrome

Weekly report for Feb. 25th

MY PICKS ๐Ÿ‘‡๏ธ

  1. ChatGPT's alarming meltdown ๐Ÿ˜ฑ โ€” โ€œWeโ€™re continuing to monitor the situationโ€ was sent by OpenAI as incoherent messages were plaguing the platform with phrases like โ€œLetโ€™s keep the line as if AI in the roomโ€.

  2. $60m per year for Reddit content ๐Ÿค– โ€” Google wants to train their AI using Reddit content for a hefty sum.

  3. Great news for the first Neuralink patient ๐Ÿง  โ€” Musk confirmed that the first Neuralink patient can successfully move a cursor on a screen by thinking.

  4. User-tracking ads forced in Google Chrome ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ โ€” Chromeโ€™s redesign update directly tracks user activity through their new ad platform software

  5. Chinese hacking exposure ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ โ€” A major leak from I-Soon, a Chinese security contractor linked to the government, has exposed a trove of documents revealing espionage tactics and hacking tools aimed at monitoring dissidents and penetrating networks globally, sparking a high-stakes investigation

HIGHLIGHTS ๐Ÿ”๏ธ

  1. ๐Ÿ“ต Major cellular outage affects AT&T, T Mobile, Verizon in the U.S.

  2. ๐Ÿ’ป Federal forces succeed against a notorious ransomware group

  3. ๐Ÿ“ถ Introducing rSIM, the world's auto-switching resilient SIM card

  4. ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Student vending machine glitch uncovers college's secret facial recognition database

  5. ๐Ÿ“บ Walmart acquires Vizio to enhance advertising

  6. ๐Ÿš— Oklahoma hacker purchases government auction cars for $1

  7. ๐Ÿง  Observing the brain's chemistry with nanoscale precision

  8. โœ‰๏ธ Google assures Gmail's continued service

  9. ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ Italian innovation enables disabled individuals to walk

  10. ๐Ÿ›‘ Google suspends Gemini AI for biased imagery

OTHER NEWS ๐Ÿ“ฐ

TOP REPOSITORIES ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

  1. codecrafters-io / build-your-own-x - Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

  2. ajeetdsouza / zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

  3. GopeedLab / gopeed - A modern download manager that supports all platforms. Built with Golang and Flutter.

  4. ripienaar / free-for-dev - A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  5. AUTOMATIC1111 / stable-diffusion-webui - Stable Diffusion web UI

  6. huggingface / transformers - ๐Ÿค— Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.

  7. vinta / awesome-python - An opinionated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

  8. openai / openai-cookbook - Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API

  9. CodeEditApp / CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS โ€“ Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.

  10. langchain-ai / langchain - ๐Ÿฆœ๐Ÿ”— Build context-aware reasoning applications

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