Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 20, #170
Here are some hints, and the answers, for the Aug. 20 Strands puzzle, No. 170.
Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A Windows zero-day vulnerability recently patched by Microsoft was exploited by hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government so they could install custom malware…
You’ve Got a Friend in… ChatGPT? I Tried Out the AI’s New Voice Mode to Find Out
It even said, “Bless you,” when I sneezed.
Build your own AI-powered robot: Hugging Face’s LeRobot tutorial is a game-changer
Hugging Face’s LeRobot tutorial revolutionizes DIY robotics, empowering developers to build and train their own AI-powered robots, democratizing access to cutting-edge technology and fostering innovation in the field.Read More
Chase CD Rates for August 2024
Unless you already have an established relationship with this bank, these CD rates aren’t the best available.
Monday’s Full Moon Is a Rare Super Blue Moon: Here’s How to See It
A supermoon and a blue moon happening at the same time won’t happen again until 2027.
Salesforce releases ‘xGen-MM’ open-source multimodal AI models to advance visual language understanding
Salesforce releases xGen-MM, a groundbreaking suite of open-source multimodal AI models that combine text and image understanding, potentially revolutionizing AI research and applications.Read More
Meta’s Self-Taught Evaluator enables LLMs to create their own training data
Researchers at Meta have released Self-Taught Evaluator, a technique that enables LLMs to automatically label their training data.Read More
Best Buy’s Tech Fest Brings Big Savings on Laptops, Headphones, Tablets, TVs and More
From Aug. 19 to Aug. 25, you can save on countless products from top brands, including Apple, Sony, HP and Samsung.
Fighting AI Scams With AI: That’s This Startup’s Mission
Scamnetic uses machine learning to assign a risk score to your emails and texts.