Meta releases SeamlessM4T AI model for text and speech translation

Meta‘s latest AI output is a major advancement for real-time text and speech translation. On Tuesday, the company released SeamlessM4T: a multimodal model that translates text to speech and vice versa. Meta claims SeamlessM4T is “the first all-in-one multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model,” meaning it is uniquely able to translate and transcribe languages…

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Using short-lived certificates to protect TLS secrets

Short-lived certificates (SLCs) are part of our latest efforts to further secure our Transport Layer Security (TLS) private keys on our edge networks. SLCs have a very short exposure compared to traditional certificates and lower the chances of a compromised private key being abused. Implementing SLCs has required us to address tradeoffs between operability and…

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Declarative Data Pipelines with Hoptimator

Table 1: Partial listing of user onboarding experiences The holes in the above chart – the majority of spaces – represent gaps where self-service does not exist yet. In those cases, creating an end-to-end data pipeline involves writing custom code to bridge the gaps. For streaming data pipelines, this involves writing stream processing jobs. For…

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Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2011-2014

The logo for the social networking site “X” is shown in this illustration. … [+]Apple’s App Store. Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images SOPA Images/LightRocket through Getty Images Twitter (officially known as X) has reportedly deleted all of the images posted to its website between 2011-2014. Links that used Twitter’s native shortening service are…

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Forging Partnerships to Advance AI Technologies in India

Recent breakthroughs in generative AI have triggered many conversations on the role of these technologies in fostering innovation and coming up with solutions for the real-world. Advancing its efforts towards an open approach for AI, Meta signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the ‘India AI’, an independent business unit (IBD) under Digital India Corporation (DIC),…

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The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professional This Week

For recent college graduates, landing that first job after receiving a hard-earned diploma can be a stressful and challenging experience. Negative perceptions of these young candidates aren’t helping. According to a recent survey conducted by Intelligent.com, 4 in 10 business leaders believe recent college grads are unprepared to enter the workforce, citing work ethic, communication…

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Senators want YouTube investigated over showing targeted ads to kids, again

A report from ad quality transparency platform Adalytics suggests that YouTube served adult-focused ads on almost 100 videos considered “made for kids.” Some of these ads reportedly involved content inappropriate for children, such as car wrecks, medical injuries, and clips from TV-MA shows. Adalytics found that the websites linked in the ads transmitted cookies to…

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