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From the need-of-the-hour department: Nigeria will criminalize the destruction of broadband fiber cables following repeated complaints by MTN Nigeria and other telecommunications companies that they are losing billions of naira, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Nigeria's works ministry, which supervises federal road constructors, is finalizing the regulation that will be signed as an executive order by President Bola Tinubu, said the people, asking not to be identified as they weren't authorized to comment. While there are presently laws against vandalism, the authorities are aiming to regulate construction firms more closely.
The order will enforce stiff penalties on offenders, said the people, declining to provide more details or say when it will be signed. "Telecom assets are critical backbone that supports the economy across sectors," said Temitope Ajayi, a senior presidential aide, who noted that the Association of Telecommunications Companies has been demanding the classification for years. New rules will provide "further assurance that the Nigerian government will protect their investments against vandals and criminal elements."
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Patch 10.2.7 PTR - Build 54295
Build 54295 has been deployed to the Public Test Realms.
Dark Heart PTR Development Notes - April 17, 2023
Blizzard has posted the Development Notes for Build 54295.
Spell Changes
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Mounts
Kor'kron Warsaber Name changed from "[PH] Nightsaber Horde Mount" to "Kor'kron Warsaber". Summons and dismisses a
Nightsaber Kor'kron Warsaber. This mount changes depending on your Riding skill and location. Account wide. Account wide. 1.5 sec cast.
Sentinel War Wolf Name changed from "[PH] Alliance Wolf Mount White" to "Sentinel War Wolf". Summons and dismisses a
Sentinel War wolf. This mount changes depending on your Riding skill and location. Account wide. Account wide. 1.5 sec cast.
Underlight Corrupted Behemoth Name changed from "[PH] Purple Old God Fish Mount" to "Underlight Corrupted Behemoth".
Underlight Shorestalker Name changed from "[PH] Green Old God Fish Mount" to "Underlight Shorestalker".
Druid (
Forums,
Talent Calculator)
Restoration
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From the how-about-that department: The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright registration to Elisa Shupe, a retired U.S. Army veteran, for her novel "AI Machinations: Tangled Webs and Typed Words," which extensively used OpenAI's ChatGPT in its creation. The registration is among the first for creative works incorporating AI-generated text, but with a significant caveat - Shupe is considered the author of the "selection, coordination, and arrangement" of the AI-generated content, not the text itself.
Shupe, who writes under the pen name Ellen Rae, initially filed for copyright in October 2022, seeking an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) exemption due to her cognitive impairments. The Copyright Office rejected her application but later granted the limited copyright after Shupe appealed. The decision, as Wired points out, highlights the agency's struggle to define authorship in the age of AI and the nuances of copyright protection for AI-assisted works.
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From the intensifying-race department: Meta debuted a new version of its powerful Llama AI model, its latest effort to keep pace with similar technology from companies like OpenAI, X and Google. The company describes Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B, containing 8 billion and 70 billion parameters respectively, as a "major leap" in performance compared to their predecessors.
Meta claims that the Llama 3 models, trained on custom-built 24,000 GPU clusters, are among the best-performing generative AI models available for their respective parameter counts. The company supports this claim by citing the models' scores on popular AI benchmarks such as MMLU, ARC, and DROP, which attempt to measure knowledge, skill acquisition, and reasoning abilities. Despite the ongoing debate about the usefulness and validity of these benchmarks, they remain one of the few standardized methods for evaluating AI models. Llama 3 8B outperforms other open-source models like Mistral's Mistral 7B and Google's Gemma 7B on at least nine benchmarks, showcasing its potential in various domains such as biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and commonsense reasoning.
TechCrunch adds: Now, Mistral 7B and Gemma 7B aren't exactly on the bleeding edge (Mistral 7B was released last September), and in a few of benchmarks Meta cites, Llama 3 8B scores only a few percentage points higher than either. But Meta also makes the claim that the larger-parameter-count Llama 3 model, Llama 3 70B, is competitive with flagship generative AI models including Gemini 1.5 Pro, the latest in Google's Gemini series.