Tag: AWS

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/gpt-5-rate-limits/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates Feedly Summary: gpt-5 and gpt-5-mini rate limit updates OpenAI have increased the rate limits for their two main GPT-5 models. These look significant: gpt-5 Tier 1: 30K → 500K TPM (1.5M batch) Tier 2: 450K → 1M (3M batch) Tier 3:…

  • AWS News Blog: Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-ec2-m4-and-m4-pro-mac-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances Feedly Summary: AWS has launched new EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances based on Apple M4 Mac mini, offering improved performance over previous generations and featuring up to 48GB memory and 2TB storage for iOS/macOS development workloads.…

  • Slashdot: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/0755253/swiss-government-looks-to-undercut-privacy-tech-stoking-fears-of-mass-surveillance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The proposed Swiss government law requiring service providers to collect user identification and retain data poses severe threats to privacy and online anonymity. This has prompted companies like Proton…

  • The Register: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/ Source: The Register Title: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services Feedly Summary: Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US The UK’s Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.……

  • Slashdot: Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity Over AI ‘Answer Engine’

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/11/2016238/britannica-and-merriam-webster-sue-perplexity-over-ai-answer-engine?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity Over AI ‘Answer Engine’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, an AI startup accused by Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster of improperly using their content. This case highlights critical issues surrounding AI and copyright infringement,…

  • AWS News Blog: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-serverless-testing-with-localstack-integration-in-vs-code-ide/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE Feedly Summary: AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent…

  • The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…