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  • The Register: DARPA-backed voting system for soldiers abroad savaged

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/darpabacked_voting_system_for_soldiers/ Source: The Register Title: DARPA-backed voting system for soldiers abroad savaged Feedly Summary: VotingWorks, developer of the system, disputes critics’ claims An electronic voting project backed by DARPA – Uncle Sam’s boffinry nerve center – to improve the process of absentee voting for American military personnel stationed abroad has been slammed by…

  • Hacker News: Refresh vs. Long-lived Access Tokens (2023)

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    Source URL: https://grayduck.mn/2023/04/17/refresh-vs-long-lived-access-tokens/ Source: Hacker News Title: Refresh vs. Long-lived Access Tokens (2023) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the differences between long-lived access tokens and a combination of long-lived refresh tokens with short-lived access tokens, particularly in the context of OAuth 2.0. It highlights the security benefits of…

  • Hacker News: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

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    Source URL: https://dynomight.net/more-chess/ Source: Hacker News Title: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text explores the unexpected performance of the GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct model in playing chess compared to other large language models (LLMs), primarily focusing on the effectiveness of prompting techniques, instruction…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing Mistral AI’s Large-Instruct-2411 and Codestral-2411 on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-mistral-ais-large-instruct-2411-and-codestral-2411-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Mistral AI’s Large-Instruct-2411 and Codestral-2411 on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: In July, we announced the availability of Mistral AI’s models on Vertex AI: Codestral for code generation tasks, Mistral Large 2 for high-complexity tasks, and the lightweight Mistral Nemo for reasoning tasks like creative writing. Today, we’re…

  • CSA: A Vulnerability Management Crisis: The Issues with CVE

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/11/21/a-vulnerability-management-crisis-the-issues-with-cve Source: CSA Title: A Vulnerability Management Crisis: The Issues with CVE Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text explores the limitations and challenges of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, which has long been pivotal to the cybersecurity sector. It outlines issues such as data quality, submission complexities,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/password-policies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong Feedly Summary: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong Stuart Schechter blames Robert Morris and Ken Thompson for the dire state of passwords today: The story…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: TextSynth Server

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/textsynth-server/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TextSynth Server Feedly Summary: TextSynth Server I’d missed this: Fabrice Bellard (yes, that Fabrice Bellard) has a project called TextSynth Server which he describes like this: ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text…

  • Hacker News: Ghost Tap: New cash-out tactic with NFC Relay

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    Source URL: https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/ghost-tap-new-cash-out-tactic-with-nfc-relay Source: Hacker News Title: Ghost Tap: New cash-out tactic with NFC Relay Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new cash-out tactic used by fraudsters, termed “Ghost Tap,” which involves relaying NFC traffic to covertly cash out stolen credit card information linked to mobile payment systems…

  • Hacker News: AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3

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    Source URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-crafts-custom-epyc-cpu-for-microsoft-azure-with-hbm3-memory-cpu-with-88-zen-4-cores-and-450gb-of-hbm3-may-be-repurposed-mi300c-four-chips-hit-7-tb-s Source: Hacker News Title: AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has unveiled a new series of high-performance computing (HPC) Azure virtual machines, the HBv5 series, which utilize a custom AMD CPU…