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Hallucinating with AI
What is an AI hallucination? What causes a chatbot to go off script and invent stuff? And is AI's tendency to rewrite history a bug or a feature?
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3 years, 5 months ago
TechStuff Classic: The Problem With Ads Part Two
Jonathan and Ben continue their conversation about online ads. Is it wrong to use ad blockers? Or is it wrong to block people who block ads?
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3 years, 5 months ago
Tech News: SpaceX's Starship Gets Off the Ground, Then Explodes
The test launch of SpaceX's Starship was a success despite the fact that the launch vehicle later exploded high above the Gulf of Mexico. There are m…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Rebirth of Vinyl
Vinyl sales were on the decline from the 1980s to the mid 2000s, but since 2006 sales have been on the rise. What's the history of vinyl, and what ma…
3 years, 5 months ago
Tech News: The AI Headlines Keep On Coming
Is Elon Musk working on a kinder, gentler AI? Could Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI take a huge chunk out of Google? And how do artists protect t…
3 years, 5 months ago
What Are Zero Day Attacks?
Over the weekend, Google rolled out a patch to Google Chrome. It addresses a zero-day vulnerability. But what are zero-day vulnerabilities and zero-d…
3 years, 5 months ago
TechStuff Classic: The Problem with Ads Part One
Online advertising has been a bit of a problem for a long time. Join Jonathan and Ben as they talk about ads, ad blockers and malware.
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3 years, 5 months ago
Tech News: China Tells AI to Tow the Party Line
China's Cyberspace Administration recommends regulations that would prevent AI from upsetting the country's political apple cart. Plus, why did Elon …
3 years, 5 months ago
TechStuff Tidbits: CPU Basics
What does a CPU do? What is clock speed? What does it mean to overclock a CPU? And are FLOPS a good thing?
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3 years, 5 months ago
Tech News: All a Twitter about Tech News
We've got stories about top secret US documents showing up on Discord servers and how Meta's verification system is putting people in danger, but to …
3 years, 5 months ago