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OpenAI News

Getting started with ChatGPT

Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.

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PlanetScale Blog

Keeping a Postgres queue healthy

A healthy digestive system is one that efficiently eliminates waste. Fiber is a key part of a healthy diet, not because it is nutritious, but because it keeps everything you consume moving. Databases are not so different. If you want a healthy queue table, you'll need to monitor the systems that are designed to perform cleanup well before they're backed up. Postgres has been a popular choice for queue-based workloads long before it was a good fit for the job. Over many years and multiple major v

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Google Security Blog

Protecting Cookies with Device Bound Session Credentials

Posted by Ben Ackerman, Chrome team, Daniel Rubery, Chrome team and Guillaume Ehinger, Google Account Security team Following our April 2024 announcement, Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now entering public availability for Windows users on Chrome 146, and expanding to macOS in an upcoming Chrome release. This project represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to combat session theft, which remains a prevalent threat in the modern security landscape. Session the

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Running Large-Scale GPU Workloads on Kubernetes with Slurm

Slurm is an open source cluster management and job scheduling system for Linux. It manages job scheduling for over 65% of TOP500 systems. Most organizations... Slurm is an open source cluster management and job scheduling system for Linux. It manages job scheduling for over 65% of TOP500 systems. Most organizations running large-scale AI training have years of investment in Slurm job scripts, fair-share policies, and accounting workflows. The challenge is getting Slurm scheduling capabilities on

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Cut Checkpoint Costs with About 30 Lines of Python and NVIDIA nvCOMP

Training LLMs requires periodic checkpoints. These full snapshots of model weights, optimizer states, and gradients are saved to storage so training can resume... Training LLMs requires periodic checkpoints. These full snapshots of model weights, optimizer states, and gradients are saved to storage so training can resume after interruptions. At scale, these checkpoints become massive (782 GB for a 70B model) and frequent (every 15-30 minutes), generating one of the largest line items in a traini

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Meta Engineering

Escaping the Fork: How Meta Modernized WebRTC Across 50+ Use Cases

At Meta, WebRTC powers real-time audio and video across various platforms. But forking a large open-source project like WebRTC within our monorepo presents unique challenges – over time, an internal fork can drift behind upstream, cutting itself off from community upgrades. We’re sharing how we escaped this “forking trap” – from building a dual-stack architecture [...] Read More... The post Escaping the Fork: How Meta Modernized WebRTC Across 50+ Use Cases appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

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Stack Overflow Blog

Gen Z needs a knowledge base (and so do you)

AI tool use is inescapable...especially if you're a young person trying to get an edge in an increasingly difficult job market. But cognitive offloading is dangerous, no matter what age you are. Building a knowledge base can save your brain and skills from atrophy.

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