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Tag: 2024

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: Why are we using LLMs as calculators?

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    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…

  • Embrace The Red: Trust No AI: Prompt Injection Along the CIA Security Triad Paper

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/trust-no-ai-prompt-injection-along-the-cia-security-triad-paper/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Trust No AI: Prompt Injection Along the CIA Security Triad Paper Feedly Summary: Happy to share that I authored the paper “Trust No AI: Prompt Injection Along The CIA Security Triad”, based on research conducted over the past 18 months. You can download it from arxiv. The…

  • The Register: Are you better value for money than AI?

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    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…

  • Slashdot: Apple Sends Spyware Victims To Nonprofit Security Lab ‘Access Now’

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    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…