#Tech Auto-GPT is a revolutionary technology that unleashes new abilities for ChatGPT, enabling it to complete tasks all by itself, creating it’s own prompts to get the job done. The buzz around Auto-GPT has recently surpassed ChatGPT itself, tr...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
What is Auto-GPT And Is Now The Time To Freak Out About AI? via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Open Source Language Model Named Dolly 2.0 Trained Similarly To ChatGPT via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Databricks announced the release of the first open source instruction-tuned language model, called Dolly 2.0. It was trained using similar methodology as InstructGPT but with a claimed higher quality dataset that is 100% open source. This ...
Monday, April 10, 2023
New Adobe PDF WordPress Plugin Radically Improves User Experience via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Adobe released a PDF Embed WordPress plugin provides additional ways to display PDFs online in a way that makes them user friendly, pleasantly interactive and useful. The new plugin makes PDF more usable on the web, with four different way...
Saturday, August 13, 2022
WordPress Creator Mullenweg: Designing In Wix Is Faster via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, questioned why a revamp of the WordPress homepage and download page took weeks to almost finish when the same project would take one person only hours to complete using a website builder platform l...
Friday, December 10, 2021
Amazon Alexa SEO Tools Is Closing via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Alexa.com announced that it will be retiring its marketing services after 25 years. Founded in 1996, Alexa was subsequently acquired by Amazon in 1999. It was initially known for providing rankings based on traffic measured through a toolb...
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Facebook AI Hunts & Removes Harmful Content via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Facebook announced a new AI technology that can rapidly identify harmful content in order to make Facebook safer. Th new AI model uses “few-shot” learning to reduce the time for detecting new kinds of harmful content from months to a perio...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Gravatar “Breach” Exposes Data of 100+ Million Users via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech The security alert company HaveIBeenPwned notified users that the profile information of 114 million Gravatar users had been leaked online in what they characterized as a data breach. Gravatar denies that it was hacked. Here’s a screenshot...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
FLAN: Google Research Finds Better Machine Learning via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Google recently explores a technique called instruction fine-tuning to train a model to be able to solving natural language processing problems in a general way. Rather than train a model to solve one kind of problem, this approach teaches...
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Google Algo Bug Puts Sites In Weird Limbo State via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech In a Google Office-hours hangout, John Mueller answered a question about how long it takes for Google to re-rank a website that disappeared and returned. Part of his answer revealed an insight into a rare problem at Google that stops a web...
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Google Will Not Set Date For Mobile-First Index via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Google announced that the deadline for the switch to a completely mobile-first index has been cancelled and there is currently no date for a final switchover. Postponing the final switch to a mobile-first index was done to accommodate the ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021
WordPress 5.9 Rushed “In A Dangerous Way” Is Now Delayed via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech WordPress recently decided that the third major version release for 2021 will be delayed to January 25, 2022. The project had fallen significantly behind to such an extent that core contributors as recently as last week voiced concerns abo...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Data Breach Spreads To Six Web Hosts via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech The GoDaddy data breach that affected up to 1.2 million web hosts has expanded to six more web hosts serving customers worldwide. The six additional compromised web hosts are resellers of GoDaddy’s hosting services. The extent of the intru...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Why GoDaddy Data Breach Of +1 Million Clients Is Worse Than Described via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Over one million GoDaddy hosting customers suffered a data breach in September 2021 that went unnoticed for two months. GoDaddy described the security event as a vulnerability. Security researchers indicate that the cause of the vulnerabil...
Sunday, November 14, 2021
WordPress Template Plugin Vulnerability Hits +1 Million Sites via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Starter Templates — Elementor, Gutenberg & Beaver Builder Templates plugin by the publishers of the Astra WordPress theme contains a vulnerability affecting over a million websites. The exploit allows an attacker to upload malicious script...
Why Google Discover Traffic Goes Away via @sejournal, @martinibuster
#Tech Google’s John Mueller answered an Office-hours hangout question about the reasons why Google Discover traffic might all of a sudden stop. His answered covered ways to diagnose on-page issues and content policy violations unique to Google D...