Experimental News Clipping Site

Tag: 24

  • Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: China’s Government Pushes Real-World AI Use to Jumpstart Its Adoption

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/02/0243223/chinas-government-pushes-real-world-ai-use-to-jumpstart-its-adoption?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Government Pushes Real-World AI Use to Jumpstart Its Adoption Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Chinese government’s aggressive push for AI adoption across various sectors, including healthcare and law enforcement, utilizing a technology named DeepSeek. This initiative reflects a broader strategy to…

  • Slashdot: Aurora’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Now Driving At Night

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2242247/auroras-self-driving-trucks-are-now-driving-at-night Source: Slashdot Title: Aurora’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Now Driving At Night Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Aurora Innovation’s expansion of its autonomous trucking operations highlights significant advancements in self-driving technology, particularly with nighttime operations between major cities. The company’s focus on efficiency, safety, and the integration of advanced sensors…

  • Slashdot: Palantir Lands $10 Billion Army Software and Data Contract

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2055248/palantir-lands-10-billion-army-software-and-data-contract?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Palantir Lands $10 Billion Army Software and Data Contract Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on Palantir’s substantial $10 billion contract with the U.S. Army to create an AI-focused enterprise framework, signaling a significant step in military AI integration and procurement efficiency. This partnership…

  • Slashdot: In Search of Riches, Hackers Plant 4G-Enabled Raspberry Pi In Bank Network

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/2241259/in-search-of-riches-hackers-plant-4g-enabled-raspberry-pi-in-bank-network?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: In Search of Riches, Hackers Plant 4G-Enabled Raspberry Pi In Bank Network Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a sophisticated cyber-physical attack by the group UNC2891, which involved planting a 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi within a bank’s ATM network. Utilizing advanced malware and techniques for…

  • Slashdot: CISA Open-Sources Thorium Platform For Malware, Forensic Analysis

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/2033245/cisa-open-sources-thorium-platform-for-malware-forensic-analysis?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CISA Open-Sources Thorium Platform For Malware, Forensic Analysis Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the release of Thorium, an open-source platform by CISA and Sandia National Labs, designed for automating large-scale malware and forensic analysis. This tool is significant for security teams looking to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…

  • Cloud Blog: A deep dive into code reviews with Gemini Code Assist in GitHub

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-code-assist-and-github-ai-code-reviews/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: A deep dive into code reviews with Gemini Code Assist in GitHub Feedly Summary: Imagine a code review process that doesn’t slow you down. Instead of a queue of pending pull requests, you have an intelligent assistant that provides a near-instant, comprehensive summary of every change. It flags…