Tag: 2024
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The Register: How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi’s ashes to become ‘most prevalent malware’
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…
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Hacker News: Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI
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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT
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…
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Hacker News: Why are we using LLMs as calculators?
Source URL: https://vickiboykis.com/2024/11/09/why-are-we-using-llms-as-calculators/ Source: Hacker News Title: Why are we using LLMs as calculators? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and motivations behind using large language models (LLMs) for mathematical reasoning and calculations. It highlights the historical context of computing and the evolution of tasks from simple…
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The Register: Are you better value for money than AI?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/ai_job_replacement_comment/ Source: The Register Title: Are you better value for money than AI? Feedly Summary: Tech vendors start saying the quiet part out loud – do enterprises really need all that headcount? Comment AI vendors are starting to say the quiet part out loud. As technology advances, it seems more about controlling costs…
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Slashdot: Apple Sends Spyware Victims To Nonprofit Security Lab ‘Access Now’
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/23/2124241/apple-sends-spyware-victims-to-nonprofit-security-lab-access-now?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Sends Spyware Victims To Nonprofit Security Lab ‘Access Now’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Apple’s approach to combating mercenary spyware threats by notifying targeted users and directing them to specialized support, which is recognized as a significant advancement in cybersecurity. The collaboration…
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Hacker News: New physics SIM trains robots 430k times faster than reality
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/new-physics-sim-trains-robots-430000-times-faster-than-reality/ Source: Hacker News Title: New physics SIM trains robots 430k times faster than reality Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents the launch of Genesis, an advanced open-source computer simulation system for robotics, which allows for immensely accelerated learning through simulated reality. It highlights the integration of…
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The Register: ‘That’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ takes on a darker tone when malware’s involved
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/firmware_malware_opinion/ Source: The Register Title: ‘That’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ takes on a darker tone when malware’s involved Feedly Summary: Mummy, where do zero days come from? Opinion One of the charms of coding is that malice can be indistinguishable from incompetence. Last week’s Who, Me? story about financial transfer test…