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Tag: 2024

  • Wired: The Worst Hacks of 2024

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/worst-hacks-2024/ Source: Wired Title: The Worst Hacks of 2024 Feedly Summary: From Chinese cyberspies breaching US telecoms to ruthless ransomware gangs disrupting health care for millions of people, 2024 saw some of the worst hacks, breaches, and data leaks ever. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines significant cybersecurity incidents and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/25/deepseek-v3/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base Feedly Summary: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base No model card or announcement yet, but this new model release from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek (an arm of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer) looks very significant. It’s a huge model – 685B parameters, 687.9 GB on disk (TIL how to size a git-lfs…

  • Hacker News: Mullvad Review of 2024

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    Source URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-review-of-2024 Source: Hacker News Title: Mullvad Review of 2024 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Mullvad VPN’s advancements in privacy and security features throughout 2024, emphasizing their commitment to combating mass surveillance and enhancing user anonymity through various technologies and thorough security audits. Detailed Description: This text…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/qvq/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model Feedly Summary: I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache2 2 licensed QvQ-72B-Preview, “an experimental research model focusing on enhancing visual reasoning capabilities". Their blog…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Paige Bailey

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/paige-bailey/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Paige Bailey Feedly Summary: it’s really hard not to be obsessed with these tools. It’s like having a bespoke, free, (usually) accurate curiosity-satisfier in your pocket, no matter where you go – if you know how to ask questions, then suddenly the world is an audiobook…

  • Irrational Exuberance: Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem.

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    Source URL: https://lethain.com/wardley-llm-ecosystem/ Source: Irrational Exuberance Title: Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem. Feedly Summary: In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride Sharing, should adopt Large Language Models (LLMs). Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on understanding the expected evolution of the LLM ecosystem, which we’ve build…

  • The Register: How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi’s ashes to become ‘most prevalent malware’

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/24/androxgh0st_botnet_mozi/ Source: The Register Title: How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi’s ashes to become ‘most prevalent malware’ Feedly Summary: Botnet’s operators ‘driven by similar interests as that of the Chinese state’ After the Mozi botnet mysteriously disappeared last year, a new and seemingly more powerful botnet, Androxgh0st, rose from its ashes and has quickly…

  • Hacker News: Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/ai_slop_bug_reports/ Source: Hacker News Title: Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of AI-generated software vulnerability submissions has led to a decline in the quality of security reports for open source projects, according to Seth Larson of…

  • The Register: One third of adults can’t delete device data

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/24/uk_device_data_deletion/ Source: The Register Title: One third of adults can’t delete device data Feedly Summary: Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a draw, survey finds The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that many adults don’t know how to wipe their old devices, and a worrying number of young…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/modernbert/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT Feedly Summary: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT BERT was an early language model released by Google in October 2018. Unlike modern LLMs it wasn’t designed for generating text. BERT was trained for masked token prediction and was generally…