Tag: Computing

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers Feedly Summary: Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model – OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b – performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the one with the…

Cloud Blog: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/database-center-expands-coverage/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center Feedly Summary: Database Center is an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that can help you identify and address security risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues for Google Cloud databases including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. Today,…

The Register: Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40?

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/fbi_email_accounts_for_sale/ Source: The Register Title: Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40? Feedly Summary: Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums Criminals are selling access to FBI and other law enforcement and government email accounts to other criminals via dark web marketplaces for as little…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/14/gemma-3-270m/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI Feedly Summary: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI New from Google: Gemma 3 270M, a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring…

Cloud Blog: How Keeta processes 11 million financial transactions per second with Spanner

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/how-blockchain-network-keeta-processes-11-million-transactions-per-second-with-spanner/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Keeta processes 11 million financial transactions per second with Spanner Feedly Summary: Keeta Network is a layer‑1 blockchain that unifies transactions across different blockchains and payment systems, eliminating the need for costly intermediaries, reducing fees, and enabling near‑instant settlements. By facilitating cross‑chain transactions and interoperability with existing…

Slashdot: Microsoft Says Voice Will Emerge as Primary Input for Next Windows

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/14/1441240/microsoft-says-voice-will-emerge-as-primary-input-for-next-windows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Says Voice Will Emerge as Primary Input for Next Windows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The upcoming version of Windows will significantly evolve through the integration of AI technologies, specifically enhancing user interaction by making voice a primary input method. This transformation will leverage both…

The Register: Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco’s AI sales by a cool billion bucks

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/cisco_q4_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco’s AI sales by a cool billion bucks Feedly Summary: Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy Cisco sold twice as much AI kit as it forecast during its 2025…

Microsoft Security Blog: Connect with the security community at Microsoft Ignite 2025

Aug 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/13/connect-with-the-security-community-at-microsoft-ignite-2025/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Connect with the security community at Microsoft Ignite 2025 Feedly Summary: Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2025 for a week of immersive learning, hands-on experiences, and strategic insights tailored for security leaders, practitioners, and innovators. The post Connect with the security community at Microsoft Ignite 2025 appeared…

AWS News Blog: Meet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025

Aug 13, 2025

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