• Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art AI for programming.  (Meta)
  
  While this has the same general limitations as other LLMs (like ChatGPT), you can download itself and mess around with the code and models without worrying about leftist lunatics wrapping the whole thing in the curare-dipped razor wire of wokeness.
  
  There are a couple of restrictions on the code license, and more on model license, but you can get the code and the data, and once it's out there you can rely on someone to ignore all the rules, and once that happens there's no putting Pandora's cat back in the bottle.
  
  This is in addition to the recently released Llama 2, a general-purpose LLM, and SeamlessM4T, a transcription and translation system that understands nearly 100 languages.

• The DOJ is suing SpaceX over alleged hiring discrimination.  (The Verge)
  
  Sexual discrimination?  Age?  Race?
  
  No, none of those.  As a government contractor, SpaceX was reluctant to hire illegal aliens.  The DOJ calls them "refugees and asylees" but they would.
  
  
  
• Australia's proposed misinformation legislation imposes penalties of up to $550,000 for individuals contradicting the official narrative.  (Brownstone Institute)
  
  But conveniently grants blanket immunity to government officials and commercial news organisations caught in deliberate lies.
  
  
  
• The PlayStation 5 Pro could offer twice the graphics performance of the regular PS5.  (Notebook Check)
  
  Or it might not exist at all.
  
  One of those.
  
  
  
• After laying off 91% of its staff over a period of 18 months, online mortgage company Better.com has finally completed its IPO - and has seen its share price decline by 93% in its first week.  (Fast Company)
  
  Oops.
  
  
  
• Another look at the Beelink GTR7 mini-PC.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's about 50% larger than a basic NUC, but it does also offer, well, basically what you find in a regular-sized NUC.
  
  It's pretty good overall though.
  
  
  
• How ChatGPT turned generative AI into an "anything tool" that is equally bad at everything it does.  (Ars Technica)
  
  The comments are scathing.

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