Tag: core

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/adam-gordon-bell/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell Feedly Summary: I think that a lot of resistance to AI coding tools comes from the same place: fear of losing something that has defined you for so long. People are reacting against overblown hype, and there is overblown hype. I get that,…

The Register: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/ Source: The Register Title: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about Feedly Summary: Researchers find models’ success at tests hides illusion of understanding Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term “potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/faqs-about-ai-evals/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Feedly Summary: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar have been running a paid, cohort-based course on AI Evals For Engineers & PMs over the past few months. Here Hamel collects answers to…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/trial-court-decides-case-based-on-ai-hallucinated-caselaw/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw Feedly Summary: Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw Joe Patrice writing for Above the Law: […] it was always only a matter of time before a poor litigant representing themselves fails to know enough to sniff out…

Krebs on Security: Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

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Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/big-techs-mixed-response-to-u-s-treasury-sanctions/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions Feedly Summary: In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sandboxed tools in a loop

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/sandboxed-tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sandboxed tools in a loop Feedly Summary: Something I’ve realized about LLM tool use is that it means that if you can reduce a problem to something that can be solved by an LLM in a sandbox using tools in a loop, you can brute force that…

CSA: What We Can Learn from the 2024 CrowdStrike Outage

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Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/what-we-can-learn-from-the-2024-crowdstrike-outage Source: CSA Title: What We Can Learn from the 2024 CrowdStrike Outage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The analysis of the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024 highlights significant vulnerabilities within centralized cloud security solutions and their ripple effects on numerous organizations. The incident underscores the critical need for thorough…

The Register: Let’s Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/lets_encrypt_rolls_out_free/ Source: The Register Title: Let’s Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses Feedly Summary: You probably don’t need one, but it’s nice to have the option Let’s Encrypt, a certificate authority (CA) known for its free TLS/SSL certificates, has begun issuing digital certificates for IP addresses.… AI Summary and Description:…

The Register: ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies

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