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Can Grindr's AI Cupid help you find love?

Grindr is developing an AI chatbot to enhance online dating experiences.
The chatbot will proactively link potential partners and help plan their dates.
Grindr aims to streamline compatibility testing by enabling bot-to-bot conversations.
The company prioritizes user privacy and is working with Ex-human to train the AI.

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NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, November 3 (game #245)

NYT Strands today (game #245) - today's theme is 'In my kingdom'
Clue words to unlock in-game hints: MAID, MOAT, MATH, LOOSE, MICE, SOLO
Today's spangram hint: Life, organized
Spangram position: First - left, 4th row; Last - right, 3rd row

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Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, November 3 (game #1014)

Quordle is still going strong even after more than 1,000 games.
Today's challenge may be tough, here are some hints and answers.
The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4, excluding Y.
1 of today's Quordle answers contains a repeated letter.
One of Q, Z, X or J appears among today's Quordle answers.
None of the answers start with the same letter.
Today's Quordle answers start with Q, H, E, and K.
Answer for Quordle today (game #1014), are QUIRK, HEART, ELBOW, and KNOWN.
The puzzle setters at Merriam-Webster made the challenge difficult.
The past 20 Quordle answers prior to Quordle today's challenge.

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There’s a new challenger to one of our favorite laptops

The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a new challenger against the Surface Laptop 7th Edition.
The Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition has a 15-inch display that matches the Surface Laptop 7th Edition and comes with the latest Intel chip.
The Yoga Slim 7i is more attractively priced than the Surface Laptop 7th Edition.
Both laptops come with touch-enabled displays, while the Surface Laptop’s display also supports Microsoft’s active pen.
The Surface Laptop 7th Edition has better performance and battery life, but the Yoga Slim 7i is cheaper with solid specifications.
Both laptops have sharp 1080p webcams with infrared cameras and support the full complement of Microsoft Copilot+ PC AI features.
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i is thinner, lighter, and slightly bigger than the Surface Laptop 7th Edition.
The Surface Laptop 7th Edition has wider colors, ideal for creators, while both displays are bright and accurate.
The Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition has a wider array of ports than the Surface Laptop 7th Edition.
Overall, the Surface Laptop 7th Edition remains a premium option, while the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i serves as a cheaper alternative 15-inch laptop.

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Harnessing AWS Bedrock: Create a Generative AI PDF Chatbot

This project will develop an advanced AI-powered chatbot designed to facilitate seamless interaction with PDF documents.
Users can upload files of up to 200MB and pose questions to the chatbot, enabling them to explore and extract valuable insights from the content of the documents.
This application will utilize AWS Bedrock, Amazon S3, AWS EC2, Docker, Langchain and Streamlit tools and technologies.
The chatbot will understand and respond to user inquiries intelligently, making it a powerful tool for both educational and professional settings.
PyPDF divides the PDF content into vectors for machine-learning-friendly representation of the PDF's content.
The application processes the vector from Amazon S3 for similarities using Jurassic-2 Mid llm model to generate an answer that will respond to the user.
Streamlit creates a visually appealing and user-friendly interface for a smooth and interactive experience.
Students can use this application to enhance their ability to engage with academic articles and literature.
This project represents a significant advancement in educational technology and paves the way for improved student capabilities in navigating and relating to scholarly articles.
Through this project, we have developed an innovative PDF chatbot application designed to reduce the time spent on research and reading.

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Serverless Computing

Serverless computing is a cloud computing model that allows developers to build and run applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.
Key Points about Serverless Computing in the Context of AWS Lambda:
1. Abstraction of Servers: Developers do not have to provision, manage, or maintain servers. They simply deploy their code, and the cloud provider takes care of the rest.
2. Event-Driven Execution: AWS Lambda functions are triggered by events (e.g., HTTP requests, file uploads), allowing code to run automatically in response to specific actions.
3. Automatic Scaling: AWS Lambda automatically scales the number of function instances based on demand, handling multiple requests simultaneously without any manual intervention.

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Why Jamie Dimon is Sam Altman’s biggest competitor

Investors have poured north of $30 billion into independent foundation model players focusing on the false grail of so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, we believe the greatest value capture exists in what is called Enterprise AGI. Private enterprises will capture the majority of value in the race for AI leadership. This report will dig deep into the economics of foundation models and will analyze Enterprise AGI and the untapped opportunities that exist within enterprises.
The false grail of AGI is often associated with OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, driven by the pursuit of machine business work better than humans. However, removing humans' involvement for decision-making is not as easy as it seems.
AGI in the enterprise is the ability gradually to learn and adapt white-collar work processes of the firm. Instead of one all-intelligent AGI, it is a swarm of modestly intelligent agents that can collectively augment human white-collar work. Nvidia CEO’s quotes also resonate with this idea of a directory of AIs, some digital, some biological, specialized and skilled, and just generally good at doing things. An all-knowing AGI may not be a viable scenario.
Private enterprises possess unique data and process advantage that is not in the public domain, which is the key ingredient for its competitive advantage. The proprietary knowledge specific to a business resides in the enterprise's data estate, with foundation models deriving from the transformer, differentiated solely by the data sets that train it.
LLMs are focused on scaling up its algorithm without recognizing that scaling up Models does not mean scaling their accuracy. The cost of scaling models is becoming unsustainable, and prices will drop like a rock. The investments going to foundation models are misguided, and the massive value capture exists in Enterprise AGI, which is a large opportunity for companies and most of the value created will accrue to these firms.
Citizen developers give agents goals and guardrails. But just as important, agents can generate plans with step-by-step reasoning that humans can then edit and iterate. Then the exception conditions become learnable moments to help get the agent further down the long tail the next time. Agents can learn from their human supervisors and learn from exceptions while in production. This is the opposite of traditional software where you want to catch and suppress bugs before production. This extension of what an agent can do can create a potentially learnable step to extend the long tail of activities and handle more edge cases.
Agents can change the economics of achieving that by observing and learning from human actions. The swarm of workflow agents, which are really specialized action models, collectively have the ability to learn and embody all that management knowhow and outperform the most advanced foundation model. The collective intelligence of those agents outperforms the singular intelligence in a frontier foundation model.
The enterprise automation opportunity is significant but requires specialized knowledge because each process is unique, and it takes more than an AI model to understand an enterprise's processes. The future of enterprise software must not only deliver transactional efficiency and productivity but also be capable of managing and analyzing the complexities of real-time business processes in a unified framework subject to operational, analytic and historical systems.
Though there are various emerging players exploring the integrated, process-driven source of truth, understanding the nuances of each approach will be critical to building applications that can capitalize on this integrated, process-driven source of truth. The future presents both challenges and a significant opportunity, setting the stage for a new era in enterprise applications, data orchestration, and process alignment.
Overall, we believe that Enterprise AGI provides a massive opportunity for companies, and most of the value created will accrue to these firms. Private enterprises will capture the majority of value in the race for AI leadership, underscoring the importance of Enterprises' ability to gradually learn and adapt white-collar work processes over an all-knowing AGI.

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Samsung 990 Pro 2TB review: stupid fast

The Samsung 990 Pro is the best SSD you can buy right now.
Although fast, the 2TB model with a heatsink is impractical for most users.
The SSD is built for other applications, such as the PS5 Pro.
The drive is insanely fast, particularly in large file transfers, and justifies its relatively high price.
Samsung is using its own in-house NAND and controller, which makes it less prone to hardware swaps after launch.
The Samsung Magician software offers a lot of options to tweak the performance of the drive.
In gaming, the regular 990 Pro and SN5000 perform similarly, making the extra cost of the heatsink hard to justify.
The best use case for the 990 Pro is large file transfers, where it shines with its sustained speed advantage.
The 990 Pro is worth spending up for if you need fast transfer speed.
The best use case for a drive this fast isn’t gaming, as most PCIe 4.0 SSDs are plenty fast for gaming, with only minor differences in loading speed.

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One more year of the iMac Pro being missing in action

Apple announced a new M4 iMac with upgrades including a more powerful chip, Thunderbolt 4, upgraded camera, and nano-texture display.
However, there is still no sign of a larger and more powerful iMac in the lineup.
Apple believes the combination of Mac Studio and Studio Display is suitable for professional users, but there is a noticeable gap in Apple's desktop Mac lineup.
The release of a larger iMac is uncertain, with little information and rumors surrounding it.

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End-to-End AWS DevOps Project: Automate Java Application Build and Deployment on Amazon EKS

This project covers creating a CI/CD pipeline for a Java-based microservices application using AWS services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeGuru, ECR, EKS, EventBridge, Security Hub, and SNS.
The pipeline will automatically build, test, secure, and deploy the application to an EKS cluster with comprehensive notifications and monitoring.
It uses CodeGuru and EventBridge for security analysis and notifications respectively.
The article provides a step-by-step guide to set up CodeCommit as a source repository, AWS EKS cluster, Amazon ECR, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeGuru, and EventBridge and SNS for notifications.
The article is aimed at those familiar with Kubernetes and Java development and require a basic knowledge of AWS as prerequisite.
The architecture diagram of the project shows the AWS services used for each task.
The technology stack of the project includes AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, ECR, EKS, CodeGuru, Security Hub, EventBridge, and SNS.
CodeGuru is used to analyze the code for quality and performance improvements.
EventBridge monitors events within AWS and triggers notifications.
It also enables AWS Security Hub to consolidate security findings.

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Cyberpunk 2077 will be the biggest test for Mac gaming yet

Mac gaming has always been in a precarious state, in a vicious cycle of developers not developing for macOS due to lack of support
Apple has ramped up its support for AAA ports in recent years.
Apple has announced a host of brand-new and sometimes exclusive games coming to macOS.
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to macOS in 2025 and will be optimized for the M4 chips.
The M-series developed by Apple can tackle the most intensive and best PC games on the market.
If M4-powered Mac devices are able to handle Cyberpunk 2077, they could pose a threat to PS5 Pro, which is planned for a November 2024 release.
The M4 Mac mini in particular would be a perfect PC to challenge Sony’s planned console upgrade, thanks to its pricing, performance, and size.
Developing for the Mac mini would be similar to a gaming console as Apple keeps its machines consistent in terms of hardware.
Apple has got everything in place to score big, but the real question is, will it make the shot or miss?
The success of Cyberpunk 2077 mac port could make Mac gaming a permanent force to be reckoned with.

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Microsoft could be about to rebrand its AI into Windows Intelligence rather than Copilot

Microsoft is considering rebranding its AI assistant, Copilot, into Windows Intelligence.
References suggest that AI-powered features in Windows 11 will be collected under the name 'Windows Intelligence'.
The move could be a deliberate attempt to align with Apple's 'Apple Intelligence' branding.
Microsoft wants to incorporate AI into all its offerings, including basic Windows features.

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Secure Software Development on AWS

Security is of utmost importance in today's digital landscape, and ensuring secure coding practices should be a top priority for organizations.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a comprehensive suite of tools and best practices to ensure that software development is not only efficient but also secure.
AWS's Shared Responsibility Model underlines the importance of implementing secure practices in software development to protect sensitive information and maintain compliance with regulations.
Secure software development on AWS requires incorporating security practices into every phase of development, using AWS security tools and services, implementing secure coding practices, and monitoring and responding to security incidents.
Automating the software development process through CI/CD pipelines can streamline deployment while maintaining security, and regular training and awareness programs can help developers stay informed about the latest security threats and best practices.
Real-world scenarios on securing fintech applications on AWS emphasize the importance of embedding security into the foundation of work.
Overall, the journey towards secure software development on AWS is an ongoing process but can be effective and rewarding with the right strategies in place.
AWS provides a robust framework for security, allowing organizations to focus on innovation and growth while ensuring that their applications remain secure in the cloud.
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Avoiding Connection Pinning in Lambda and RDS Proxy with NestJS and Proxy Splitting

The combination of Lambda, RDS Proxy, and Aurora in the application architecture often led to the Lambda concurrency limit of 1000 being exceeded.
Connection pinning, caused by statements with a text size greater than 16 KB, led to excessive database connections in RDS Proxy.
To address the issue, a new RDS Proxy was created specifically for the problematic API, and the affected repository was redirected to use this proxy.
By routing queries triggering connection pinning to the new proxy, the Lambda concurrency was stabilized, and the Aurora connection limits were not exceeded.

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Claude joins the AI chatbot desktop app rush but leaves some features behind

AI chatbot Claude is now available as a desktop app for Windows and Mac computers.
The desktop app offers keyboard shortcuts and freedom from relying solely on mobile devices or web browsers.
The desktop version lacks the Computer Use feature but uses Anthropic's latest AI model.
Rival AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity AI have also introduced desktop apps recently.

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