Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares Redditors hoping to get in early on the company's upcoming IPO had better hope they have a lot of karma in reserve.…
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Lees meerFive months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023.…
Lees meerCooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law Machine-learning researchers and legal experts have released SauLM-7B, which they claim is the first text-generating open source large language model specifically focused on legal wo…
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Lees meerGood news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones. The team behind the leading replacement OS for end-of-life smartphones are to adopt systemd – to make working with GNOME and KDE easier.…
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Lees meerGood news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones. The team behind the leading replacement OS for end-of-life smartphones are to adopt systemd – to make working with GNOME and KDE easier.…
Lees meerTerms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not Opinion It's a good rule of nostril that if your litigation department is a source of revenue, your business model stinks. The law is there to discourage delinquent behavior when all else fails, not to a…
Lees meerOlder and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side Who, Me? Aaah … Monday! That wonderful week-opening day that brings with it so many possibilities. Including, as Register readers know all too well, the chance to make errors that must then be …
Lees meerBut for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer “more training at a fraction of the cost they used to pay.”…
Lees meerBejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too China’s main payment systems, Alipay and WeChat Pay, eased access for foreign users on Friday, a day after Beijing issued new guidelines for its payment indus…
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Lees meerCooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law Machine-learning researchers and legal experts have released SauLM-7B, which they claim is the first text-generating open source large language model specifically focused on legal wo…
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