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2025-03-18

Om Malik on Apple Intelligence: ‘FUD, Dud, or Both’

Om Malik: I have my own explanation, something my readers are familiar with, and it is the most obvious one. Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which...

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The Design and Implementation of FreeEval

In this section, we present the design and implementation of FreeEval, we discuss the framework’s architecture and its key components.

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A Meta-Evaluation of LLMs

Meta-evaluation refers to the process of evaluating the fairness, reliability, and validity of evaluation protocols themselves. We incorporate several meta-evaluation methods into FreeEval.

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2025-03-17

Background and Automatic Evaluation Methods for LLMs

In this section, we provide an overview of the current landscape of LLM evaluation methods, the challenges posed by data contamination, and the importance of meta-evaluation in assessing the reliability...

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FreeEval: A Modular Framework for Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation of Large Language Models

FreeEval is designed with a high-performance infrastructure, including distributed computation and caching strategies, enabling extensive evaluations across multi-node, multi-GPU clusters for open-source and proprietary LLMs.

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Tesla’s Share Price Has Been Suspect Since Like Forever

Tesla’s share price has been having a hard time of it lately. The stock has lost about half its value since its all-time high back in December, and, since Musk...

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Users Cheer as Microsoft Accidentally Removes Hated AI Feature From Windows 11

Microsoft has "unintentionally uninstalled" its Copilot AI assistant app on some devices running its latest operating system Windows 11 — and users are rejoicing. "We’re aware of an issue with...

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Song Exploder talks to Theodore Shapiro about how he created the main...

Song Exploder talks to Theodore Shapiro about how he created the main title theme music for Severance. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Why Are People Still Falling For Gift Card Scams?

"Gift Card Scams in 2025: How Are People STILL Falling for This Ridiculous Fraud? Seriously, how can anyone be so naive as to believe that a tech company or the...

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Michael Tsai’s Roundup of Links and Commentary on My ‘Something Is Rotten’ Piece Last Week

I’ve been commenting and expanding upon some of the commentary my piece prompted, and I have a few more coming, but it’s good to have Tsai collect a comprehensive overview.  ...

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From One Million Experiments, a printable zine meant to be “used as...

From One Million Experiments, a printable zine meant to be “used as a template for those seeking to make an activism or organizing plan” with knowledge distilled from seasoned activists....

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Ray Maker on the Heart Rate Sensor of the Beats PowerBeats 2 Pro

Ray Maker, writing at DC Rainmaker: This would not only be the first time Apple has created a non-watch heart rate sensor, but even more notably, the first time the...

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European Cyber Report 2025: 137% More DDoS attacks Than Last Year - What Companies Need To Know

The number of DDoS attacks has more than doubled, and they are shorter, more targeted, and more technically sophisticated. Organizations that do not continuously evolve their security strategies face significant...

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Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI

Weeks after Sam Altman's admission that OpenAI's scaling model had run out of steam, it seems the billionaire tech baron is now changing course. In a recently published white paper,...

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Chance Miller Reviews the Beats Powerbeats Pro 2

I’m a month late linking to it, but Chance Miller wrote a terrific review for 9to5Mac: The last several releases from Beats, such as the Studio Buds Plus and Solo...

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Michael Gartenberg on the Lessons Apple Learned (and Hopefully Has Not Forgotten) From MobileMe

Sebastiaan de With, on X, linking to my “Something Is Rotten” piece last week: Ex-MobileMe team here. This was a brutal time. It was so bad that when he presented...

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All AI-Generated Material Must Be Labeled Online, China Announces

In collaboration with a number of government ministries, the Chinese internet watchdog Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has announced that all AI-generated content on the internet will have to be...

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AI Honeypots Are the Future of Cybersecurity

Clone traps are next-gen honeypots that are about to turn the table on cybercriminals. They are deeply integrated with a firewall and provide AI-driven intelligence to super-target protection.

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Researcher "Threatened to Kill" Colleagues Trapped in Antarctic Base

Things seem to be going nightmarishly bad at an isolated scientific base in Antarctica, where a researcher has been accused of assaulting and threatening to murder colleagues. As England's The...

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The Curious 100 from The Eames Institute is, “a celebration of one...

The Curious 100 from The Eames Institute is, “a celebration of one hundred courageous leaders and creative minds across the United States who are harnessing the transformative power of curiosity...

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