In a significant stride for Brazilian AI technology, a national startup has unveiled MariTalk: an artificial intelligence chatbot entirely in Portuguese, rivaling its international counterparts. This breakthrough comes amidst the dominance of giants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft, in an attempt to compete. Six years ago, a team of… Read More... "Brazilian researchers develop their own chatGPT"
According to the 2023 Internet Segment Reliability Report, Brazil has remained as the most resilient country to global internet failures. This distinction places Brazil as the only South American nation among the top 10 globally, surpassing its regional counterpart Argentina, which holds the 19th position, with the United States ranking… Read More... "Brazil Ranked 1st in Resiliency to Global Internet Failures in 2023"
In a recent development, unsealed court documents have shed light on Facebook’s clandestine project back in 2016. The social media giant, whose parent company’s name changed to Meta to reduce social backlash, embarked on a secret mission codenamed ‘Ghostbusters’ aimed at acquiring, decrypting, transferring, and utilizing private, encrypted in-app analytics… Read More... "Facebook exposed for stealing more data than imagined"
Since my highschool years 10 years ago, I’ve had interest in the area of microbiology(which I sadly couldn’t pursue due to my hemophobia). Back then, a certain technology called “CRISPR” was circulating, which promised to change everything. The other day, I found a video talking about, and specifically showing how… Read More... "How is Crispr being applied in 2024"
If you have been looking at the news recently, or watching certain twitch streamers, you’ve heard about a massive security concern regarding Apex Legends. Two streamers, Genburten and ImperialHal, were playing the global series live when suddenly a text message stating “Apex hacking global series by Destroyer2009 & R4ndom“ appeared… Read More... "[Updated] Remote Code Execution Apex Legends security issue"
On March 14, 2024, internet connectivity across several African countries faced significant disruptions, affecting millions of users and sparking concerns about the reliability of local internet infrastructure. The disruptions, which primarily impacted west and central African countries along with South Africa, were attributed to multiple undersea cable failures in the… Read More... "Half of Africa had no internet this Thursday"
Gleam is a statically-typed functional programming language, which recently had its v1 released, designed for building scalable and maintainable software. It is inspired by languages like Elm and Rust and compiles down to Erlang, making it well-suited for building concurrent and distributed systems. In this tutorial, we’ll cover the basics… Read More... "Gleam: A Basic Introduction"
Bots are a massive issue nowadays. They infect basically all social websites(even your dumpster fire that you call “”””X””” Elon Musk. By the way its Twitter), flooding people’s DMs with spam, posting cringe and lies to attract any attention, filling up comments of people asking for help and even outside… Read More... "How I prevented Bots from causing problems on my Website"
In the fast-paced realm of technology, COBOL, or COmmon Business-Oriented Language, emerges as a timeless cornerstone in the world of programming. Developed in the late 1950s with a clear focus on business applications, COBOL remains relevant today due to its readability, adaptability, and crucial role in maintaining the backbone of… Read More... "COBOL: A Basic Introduction"
In a recent turn of events, the ongoing conflict between Google and Microsoft has taken a new twist. The search giant alleges that its competitor’s monopoly in cloud computing is hindering technological development, particularly in emerging fields such as generative artificial intelligence. This information comes from Reuters. The criticisms were… Read More... "Monopoly(Google) Accuses Monopoly(Microsoft) of being Monopoly"