Tag: 2024

  • The Register: Take a closer look at Nvidia’s buy of Run.ai, European Commission told

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/probe_nvidias_buy_of_runai/ Source: The Register Title: Take a closer look at Nvidia’s buy of Run.ai, European Commission told Feedly Summary: Campaign groups, non-profit orgs urge action to prevent GPU maker tightening grip on AI industry A left-of-center think tank along with other non-profits are urging the European Commission to “fully investigate" Nvidia’s purchase of…

  • CSA: Zero-Code Cloud: Building Secure, Automated Infrastructure Without Writing a Line

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/12/16/zero-code-cloud-building-secure-automated-infrastructure-without-writing-a-line Source: CSA Title: Zero-Code Cloud: Building Secure, Automated Infrastructure Without Writing a Line Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of code-less infrastructure deployment solutions in the DevOps landscape, highlighting their significance in improving deployment efficiency while ensuring robust security and compliance. It underscores the innovations…

  • Hacker News: The Qualcomm DSP Driver – Unexpectedly Excavating an Exploit

    Source URL: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/12/qualcomm-dsp-driver-unexpectedly-excavating-exploit.html Source: Hacker News Title: The Qualcomm DSP Driver – Unexpectedly Excavating an Exploit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed technical analysis of multiple security vulnerabilities discovered in the adsprpc driver utilized in Qualcomm chips. Highlighting vulnerabilities that have direct implications for the security of…

  • Embrace The Red: Security ProbLLMs in xAI’s Grok: A Deep Dive

    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/security-probllms-in-xai-grok/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Security ProbLLMs in xAI’s Grok: A Deep Dive Feedly Summary: Grok is the chatbot of xAI. It’s a state-of-the-art model, chatbot and recently also API. It has a Web UI and is integrated into the X (former Twitter) app, and recently it’s also accessible via an API.…

  • Schneier on Security: Short-Lived Certificates Coming to Let’s Encrypt

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/short-lived-certificates-coming-to-lets-encrypt.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Short-Lived Certificates Coming to Let’s Encrypt Feedly Summary: Starting next year: Our longstanding offering won’t fundamentally change next year, but we are going to introduce a new offering that’s a big shift from anything we’ve done before—short-lived certificates. Specifically, certificates with a lifetime of six days. This…

  • The Register: $800 ‘AI’ robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/moxie_cloud_services_lessons/ Source: The Register Title: $800 ‘AI’ robot for kids bites the dust along with its maker Feedly Summary: Moxie maker Embodied is going under, teaching important lessons about cloud services Comment The maker of Moxie, an “AI"-powered educational robot for kids, is going out of business – and the $800 bots will…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Phi-4 Technical Report

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/phi-4-technical-report/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Phi-4 Technical Report Feedly Summary: Phi-4 Technical Report Phi-4 is the latest LLM from Microsoft Research. It has 14B parameters and claims to be a big leap forward in the overall Phi series. From Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft’s Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning: Phi-4 outperforms…

  • The Register: Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/prometheus_servers_exporters_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not Feedly Summary: Plus: Netscaler brute force barrage; BeyondTrust API key stolen; and more Infosec in brief There’s a problem of titanic proportions brewing for users of the Prometheus open source monitoring toolkit: hundreds of thousands of servers and exporters…

  • The Register: Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/speculative_decoding/ Source: The Register Title: Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding Feedly Summary: Sometimes two models really are faster than one Hands on When it comes to AI inferencing, the faster you can generate a response, the better – and over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a number…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Riley Goodside

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/14/riley-goodside/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Riley Goodside Feedly Summary: An LLM knows every work of Shakespeare but can’t say which it read first. In this material sense a model hasn’t read at all. To read is to think. Only at inference is there space for serendipitous inspiration, which is why LLMs…