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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/exploring-promptfoo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals Feedly Summary: I used part three (here’s parts one and two) of Dave Guarino’s series on evaluating how well LLMs can answer questions about SNAP (aka food stamps) as an excuse to explore Promptfoo, an LLM eval tool. SNAP (Supplemental…

  • Slashdot: AI Tackles Aging COBOL Systems as Legacy Code Expertise Dwindles

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1725256/ai-tackles-aging-cobol-systems-as-legacy-code-expertise-dwindles?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Tackles Aging COBOL Systems as Legacy Code Expertise Dwindles Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the transition of US government agencies and Fortune 500 companies from legacy COBOL systems to modern solutions using AI technologies. It emphasizes the urgent need for upgrades due…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/24/new-whitepaper-outlines-the-taxonomy-of-failure-modes-in-ai-agents/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents Feedly Summary: Read the new whitepaper from the Microsoft AI Red Team to better understand the taxonomy of failure mode in agentic AI. The post New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents…

  • Cloud Blog: Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/migrating-from-mysql-to-spanner-is-easier-now/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier Feedly Summary: Yesterday’s databases aren‘t sufficient for tomorrow’s applications, which need to deliver dynamic, AI-driven experiences at unpredictable scale and with zero downtime. To help, at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced new functionality, improved performance, and migration…

  • The Register: Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/database_vector_search/ Source: The Register Title: Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases Feedly Summary: Software slingers from Redis to Teradata are bolting on smarts to stay relevant in GenAI era About two years ago, popular cache database Redis was among a wave of vendors that added vector search capabilities to their…

  • Cloud Blog: SaaS delivery made easy: Meet SaaS Runtime

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-modernization/introducing-saas-runtime/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: SaaS delivery made easy: Meet SaaS Runtime Feedly Summary: The demand for software as a service (SaaS) based solutions is exploding, fueled by AI-driven hyper-personalization, the rise of specialized vertical solutions, and a no-code revolution. However, building and scaling a successful SaaS can be daunting for would-be SaaS…

  • Schneier on Security: Regulating AI Behavior with a Hypervisor

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/regulating-ai-behavior-with-a-hypervisor.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Regulating AI Behavior with a Hypervisor Feedly Summary: Interesting research: “Guillotine: Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs.” Abstract:As AI models become more embedded in critical sectors like finance, healthcare, and the military, their inscrutable behavior poses ever-greater risks to society. To mitigate this risk, we propose Guillotine, a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragment-symbex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/llm-fragment-symbex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragment-symbex Feedly Summary: llm-fragment-symbex I released a new LLM fragment loader plugin that builds on top of my Symbex project. Symbex is a CLI tool I wrote that can run against a folder full of Python code and output functions, classes, methods or just their docstrings and…