Tag: based

  • Cloud Blog: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-innovations-in-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation Feedly Summary: Spanner is Google’s always-on, virtually unlimited database that powers planet-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Outside of Google, Spanner powers demanding workloads for household brands like Yahoo!, The Home Depot, Wayfair, and Pokémon Go. Today, Spanner handles…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building effective agents

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building effective agents Feedly Summary: Building effective agents My principal complaint about the term “agents" is that while it has many different potential definitions most of the people who use it seem to assume that everyone else shares and understands the definition that they have chosen to…

  • Hacker News: The era of open voice assistants has arrived

    Source URL: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12/19/voice-preview-edition-the-era-of-open-voice/ Source: Hacker News Title: The era of open voice assistants has arrived Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text highlights the introduction of an open-source voice assistant, Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, prioritizing privacy and customization for users. It emphasizes its capabilities, design features, and the community-driven nature…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode"

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/gemini-thinking-mode/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode" Feedly Summary: Those new model releases just keep on flowing. Today it’s Google’s snappily named gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, their first entrant into the o1-style inference scaling class of models. I posted about a great essay about the significance of these just this morning. From…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Welcome to the party, pal!

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/welcome-to-the-party-pal-2/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Welcome to the party, pal! Feedly Summary: In the last newsletter of the year, Thorsten recalls his tech-savvy gift to his family and how we can all incorporate cybersecurity protections this holiday season. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text serves as a discussion on personal…

  • The Register: US bipartisan group publishes laundry list of AI policy requests

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/house_ai_policy_requests/ Source: The Register Title: US bipartisan group publishes laundry list of AI policy requests Feedly Summary: Chair Jay Obernolte urges Congress to act – whether it will is another matter After 10 months of work, the bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in the US house of Congress has unveiled its report,…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/12/19/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-12356 BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty

    Source URL: https://github.com/tide-foundation/tidecloak-gettingstarted Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text serves as a developer guide for setting up TideCloak, an identity and access management (IAM) system built on KeyCloak, aimed at allowing developers to create secure…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is AI progress slowing down?

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is AI progress slowing down? Feedly Summary: Is AI progress slowing down? This piece by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor is the single most insightful essay about AI and LLMs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s long and worth reading every inch of it – it…