> Wasn't BCB breached for a couple hundred million reais this month, as well? Maybe they are trying to keep the code closed because they know it's insecure
It wasn't a BCB breach. The issue was with an integrator.
Like a client API built on top of it that provided banking features to fintech startups
And it was only breached because criminals approached an IT guy from the affected bank and offered him R$5000 to hand out the passwords used to login to their internal systems. Once the hackers were inside, they had control of bank accounts and started moving money around.
So no, it wasn't a breach to BCB, neither it was caused by system insecurity, but rather, human error in a downstream implementation.
There's an Apple TV+ series called Extrapolations with a plot of a dystopian future heavily affected by climate change. One of the plotlines involve humans successfully developing the technology to communicate with humpback whales.
So, the story involves an animal DNA archivist interacting with what's presented as the last living humpback whale, focusing on its isolation etc. It turns out the research lab's goal is to trick the whale by faking mating signals, aiming to get it to reveal information about whale history and culture. It's essentially data mining the animal.
I keep reading people complaining about this but I can't understand why. Gemini can 100% set timers and with much more subtle hints than assistant ever could. It just works. I don't get why people say it can't.
It can also play music or turn on my smart lamps, change their colors etc. I can't remember doing any special configuration for it to do that either.
I certainly can't get it to reliably play music on my Pixel 8. Mostly it summons YT Music, only occasionally do I get my music player, and sometimes I merely get "I'm an LLM, I can't help you with that."
And you used to be able to say "Find my phone" and it would chime and max screen brightness until found. Tried that with Gemini once, and it went on with very detailed instructions on using Google or Apple's Find My Device website (depending on what type of phone I owned), maybe calling it from another device if it's not silenced, or perhaps accepting that my device was lost or stolen if none of the above worked. Did find it during that lengthy attempt at being helpful though.
Another fun example, weather. When Gemini's in control, "What's the weather like tonight?" gets a short ramble about how weather depends on climate, with some examples of what the weather might be like broadly in Canada, Japan, or the United States at night.
Unlike Assistant where you could learn to adapt to its unique phrasing preferences, you just flat out can never reliably predict what Gemini's going to do. In exchange for higher peak performance, the floor dropped out the bottom.
Good. As much as I don't like some things about China, but damn it they're really good at cutting down costs. I look forward to their version of Nvidia GPUs at half the price.
> I look forward to their version of Nvidia GPUs at half the price.
Arguably China doesn't have the technology required to manufacture 30-series GPUs with the yield or unit cost Nvidia did. I wouldn't hold my breath for Chinese silicon to outperform Nvidia's 40 or 50 series cards any time soon.
I wonder if the US will end the restrictions if China pulls ahead in LLM ability, considering they serve no purpose if China's already ahead? Although given they seem to want to ban Chinese drones without any competitive local alternative, maybe not.
Sure, but if a phone is your primary computing device, as it is for more than half the world's population, it makes sense for it to get bigger as well.
