Peter Guest

2 months ago | compiler.news | Peter Guest

By Peter Guest | Contributor As the official campaigning period in Venezuela’s presidential election began earlier this summer, one by one, news websites started to go offline. First, two fact-checking websites, Cazadores de Fake News and Es Paja, went dark for Venezuelan users. Within a week, a handful of other fact-checking and civil society sites were blocked.

Dec 5, 2024 | afr.com | Peter Guest

Peter GuestDec 6, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? One day this March in the Summer Palace of Beijing, a tour guide was struggling to hold his group’s attention.

Dec 4, 2024 | gq.com.tw | Peter Guest

在高性能跑車領域，Porsche 長久以來都讓一眾車迷們心馳神往（尤其是講到 GT2、GT3 這種頂規車型），而當這樣的性能標竿遇上專注於極速操控的 Manthey Racing，便催生出最新的巔峰之作「Porsche 911 GT3 RS MR」。這款車不僅是速度與駕馭的代名詞，更展現了 Porsche 與 Manthey Racing 雙方在賽道與技術上天衣無縫的合作。至於 Manthey Racing 究竟是何方神聖？為何能讓 Porsche 點頭答應改上他們的套件能夠「不破保」？今天就讓編輯帶大家一探究竟！ 來自賽道的傳奇 提到 Manthey Racing，對於部分資深的賽車迷來說絕對是耳熟能詳，這個名字近乎是能夠與「賽道傳奇」劃上等號。Manthey Racing 成立於 1996 年，憑藉創始人 Olaf Manthey 的豐富賽車經驗，迅速成為歐洲耐力賽事的常勝軍，特別是在著名的紐柏林 24 小時耐力賽上，他們七度奪冠，並且多次刷新北環賽道量產車的圈速記錄，更被譽為「紐柏林之王」。 直到 2013 年，Porsche 收購了 Manthey Racing...

Dec 3, 2024 | technologyreview.com | Peter Guest

LMT’s Pollaks says he has visited Ukraine often since the war began. Though he declines to give more details, he euphemistically describes Ukraine’s wartime bureaucracy as “nonstandardized.” If you want to blow something up in front of an audience in the EU, he says, you have to go through a whole lot of approvals, and the paperwork can take months, even years. In Ukraine, plenty of people are willing to try out your tools.

Jun 28, 2024 | maharlikanews.com | Peter Guest

When a Finn talks to an AI helper like ChatGPT, they often get the sense that something is subtly wrong. “You really feel that this conversation is not the way that you would have a discussion in Finland,” says Peter Sarlin. For a start, Finnish people are known for a blunt approach to dialog and chatbots are usually tuned to be overly courteous. But there’s also the fact that most leading chatbots and the large language models behind them are developed in the US and trained on mostly US data.