We’re announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.

A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too

Google cloud ceo says "it won't happen anymore", it's insane that there's the possibility of "instant delete everything"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15454966

Banana Pi BPI-F3: Single-board computer and RISV-V alternative to the Raspberry Pi now available

The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow Everything, Louis Barclay, leading that developer to shut down his tool after thousands of Facebook users had eagerly downloaded it.

Zuckerman is suing Meta, asking a US district court in California to invalidate Meta's past arguments against developers like Barclay and rule that Meta would have no grounds to sue if he released his tool.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15421429

Global car giants seek tech allies in China's cutthroat EV market

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15187023