🤖 Rabbit R1 Challenges Siri, AWS Costs Surge, Google Blocks Apps
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Can Rabbit's R1 outsmart the smartphone assistants? Let's find out!. Welcome to another episode of the fantastic new game show where we quiz virtual assistants! Say it with me, folks: “Are you smarter than just googling it?” Let’s welcome our contestants. You probably know our first two contestants from such hits as “Set a timer for me” and “How much time is left on my timer?”: Siri and Google Assistant! Big round of applause for these hard-working smartphone assistants. Next up is a newcomer — it’s sleek, it’s orange, it’s the Rabbit R1! By Allison Johnson via The Verge
𝕏: we shall see how fast r1 improves and evolves. we are a tiny team trying to catch the fast pace of AI. the current level of AI needs strong human supervised fine tuning. you can't take your time polishing features without real user testing. we will push the OTA fix as early as tomorrow to address most of the bugs we found. thanks @MKBHD for your detailed explanation of LAM! looking forward for you to do a 'r1 re-visit' very soon. - Jesse Lyu (@jessechenglyu)
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode. Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning? A few weeks ago, I began working on the PoC of a document indexing system for my client. I created a single S3 bucket in the eu-west-1 region and uploaded some files there for testing. Two days later, I checked my AWS billing page, primarily to make sure that what I was doing was well within the free-tier limits. By Maciej Pocwierz via Medium
𝕏: AWS needs to stop charging for 4xx requests to s3 buckets immediately. In GitHub here are 63k references to us-east-1 buckets alone. Anyone can start racking up massive bills for these users with a simple PUT request! - AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve)
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Google rejected 2.28 million risky Android apps from Play store in 2023. Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security. Additionally, the tech giant reports that it identified and blocked 333,000 Google Play accounts that uploaded malware, fraudulent apps, or engaged in repeated grave policy violations. By Bill Toulas via BleepingComputer
𝕏: How we fought bad apps and bad actors in 2023 In 2023, we prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play… // This number is astounding. Imagining either a 5% false positive or negative is mind-blowing. - Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)
Americans' Views of Technology Companies. Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans' attitudes toward technology companies. For this analysis, we surveyed 10,133 U.S. adults from Feb. 7 to 11, 2024. Everyone who took part in the survey is a member of the Center's American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. By Sara Atske via Pew Research Center
All New U.S. Cars Must Carry Automatic Brakes by 2029. Starting in 2029, a new federal safety regulation will require all new cars and trucks in the United States to be sold with automatic emergency braking — sensors that hit the brakes to avoid a collision if the driver does not. The new rule, which was made final on Monday, imposes more stringent requirements than the automatic emergency braking technology now sold on most vehicles, and even goes past the point of present technological feasibility, automakers said. By Rob Copeland via The New York Times
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