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1. French court issues damages award for violation of GPL Total comment counts : 23 Summary A French court has ordered Orange, a major telecom provider, to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and €150,000 for moral damages for infringing the copyright of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software and violating the GPL. This case, which began in 2010, involved Orange using the Lasso software in a government portal without passing on the rights to its modifications or making the source code available....

1. ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood Total comment counts : 44 Summary The article discusses the company formerly known as ShotSpotter, now called SoundThinking, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system. The system involves installing acoustic sensors throughout a city to detect gunfire and determine its source. The company has been criticized for its secrecy in not disclosing the locations of its sensors and for attempting to suppress research into the civil rights impacts of its product....

1. Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative Total comment counts : 45 Summary Ente is a platform that allows users to store, share, and rediscover their memories with absolute privacy. They are end-to-end encrypted, meaning they have no access to user data and only the user can see their photos. The company’s open source code has been audited by reputable cryptographers. They store three copies of user data in three different locations, including an underground fallout shelter....

1. Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf] Total comment counts : 121 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary The article discusses the possibility of OpenAI, a company focused on artificial intelligence research, becoming a non-profit organization. The author expresses doubt about the company’s ability to align its actions with its stated objective of benefiting the public and making technology open-source. The author implies that OpenAI may not fulfill its commitments as a non-profit entity....

1. How video games use lookup tables Total comment counts : 20 Summary This article discusses the use of look-up-tables (LUTs) in graphics programming, using WebGL as an example. LUTs allow for creative techniques in manipulating video footage, such as turning grayscale footage into color or creating variations of images. The article explains the use of LUTs in the fragment shader, where each pixel’s final color is determined. The article also mentions the performance implications of using LUTs and provides examples of how they have been used in games like Left 4 Dead....

1. The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing Total comment counts : 59 Summary The article introduces arXivLabs, a framework that enables collaborators to create and share new features on the arXiv website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs follow the values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv only works with partners who uphold these values. The article also mentions that if you have any ideas for projects that would benefit the arXiv community, you can find more information on arXivLabs....

1. Airfoil Total comment counts : 35 Summary This article discusses the physics of flight and how airplanes remain airborne. It looks at the shape and orientation of the airfoil, which is the cross section of the wings, and how it interacts with the flow of air. The article also explores the behavior and properties of air and other flowing substances. Visual representations, such as falling leaves and bending blades of grass, are used to demonstrate the effects of wind on objects and to help visualize the motion of air....

1. Mistral Large Total comment counts : 48 Summary The article discusses the release of Mistral Large, a new advanced language model with top-tier reasoning capabilities. Mistral Large can be used for complex multilingual reasoning tasks such as text understanding, transformation, and code generation. It achieves strong results on benchmarks and is the second-ranked model available through an API. Mistral Large has new capabilities including fluency in multiple languages, a large context window for information recall, precise instruction-following, and function calling....

1. GenAI and erroneous medical references Total comment counts : 23 Summary Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are being used in the medical field, but there are concerns about their safety and effectiveness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is struggling to regulate these models since they fall in a gray area between existing technologies. The FDA has approved over 700 AI medical devices, but LLMs pose a challenge because they combine existing medical information with potential ideas that may not be accurate....

1. GPT in 500 Lines of SQL Total comment counts : 23 Summary The article discusses implementing a large language model in SQL. The author explains that a generative language model takes a text string as input and returns an array of strings and numbers. The model predicts the probability of the next word based on the input. The article also provides an overview of large language models and how they are used in various text applications....