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When War Came to Their Country, They Built a Map
Over time, Deep State has added more advanced features and quirks to the map. A toolbar in the…
A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI
When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just…
How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a…
Spotify Will Brick Every ‘Car Thing’ It Ever Sold
Owners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open source the gadgets to save…
/e/OS Review: This Operating System Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It
Photograph: Scott Gilbertson While I like the privacy features of /e/OS and have even taken to spoofing my…
Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels
Jerome Pesenti has a few reasons to celebrate Meta’s decision last week to release Llama 3, a powerful…
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
Ultimately, Scott argues that those three years of code changes and polite emails were likely not spent sabotaging…
The XZ Backdoor: Everything You Need to Know
On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted…
Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model
This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in…
The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image Generators
Whether through the frowning high-definition face of a chimpanzee or a psychedelic, pink-and-red-hued doppelganger of himself, Reuven Cohen…