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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/qwen25-vl-32b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter Feedly Summary: Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter The second big open weight LLM release from China today – the first being DeepSeek v3-0324. Qwen’s previous vision model was Qwen2.5 VL, released in January in 3B, 7B and 72B sizes. Today’s release is a 32B…

  • Cloud Blog: Speed up checkpoint loading time at scale using Orbax on JAX

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/unlock-faster-workload-start-time-using-orbax-on-jax/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Speed up checkpoint loading time at scale using Orbax on JAX Feedly Summary: Imagine training a new AI / ML model like Gemma 3 or Llama 3.3 across hundreds of powerful accelerators like TPUs or GPUs to achieve a scientific breakthrough. You might have a team of powerful…

  • Cloud Blog: Nuro drives autonomous innovation with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/nuro-drives-autonomous-innovation-with-alloydb-for-postgresql/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Nuro drives autonomous innovation with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Nuro, a robotics company that develops technology for self-driving vehicles, needed a data platform that could handle complex data processes and support continuous AI model improvement. By migrating to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Nuro gained the scalability,…

  • Wired: The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/q-day-apocalypse-quantum-computers-encryption/ Source: Wired Title: The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid Feedly Summary: What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the impending threat posed by the advent…

  • Hacker News: The Cybernetic Teammate

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    Source URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-cybernetic-teammate Source: Hacker News Title: The Cybernetic Teammate Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents the findings of a study on the impact of generative AI, specifically GPT-4, on teamwork and productivity in a corporate setting. It reveals that AI can significantly enhance individual and team performance, facilitate…

  • Hacker News: Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened

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    Source URL: https://ciq.com/products/rocky-linux/hardened Source: Hacker News Title: Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened, highlighting its optimizations for mission-critical environments with strict security requirements. It emphasizes advanced security features like memory corruption detection, kernel integrity checking, and robust…

  • Hacker News: A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

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    Source URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate Source: Hacker News Title: A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The French National Assembly’s rejection of a proposal to undermine end-to-end encryption marks a significant victory for digital rights and privacy. The legislation threatened to introduce backdoor access to messaging platforms,…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing protection summary, a new Google Cloud Backup and DR feature

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-backup-and-dr-protection-summary/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing protection summary, a new Google Cloud Backup and DR feature Feedly Summary: In today’s cloud environments, data protection is paramount. Ensuring your backups are configured correctly and aligned with your business continuity requirements is critical for business continuity and resilience against threats like ransomware. However, understanding your…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic Trust Center: Brave Search added as a subprocessor

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/21/anthropic-use-brave/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic Trust Center: Brave Search added as a subprocessor Feedly Summary: Anthropic Trust Center: Brave Search added as a subprocessor Yesterday I was trying to figure out if Anthropic has rolled their own search index for Claude’s new web search feature or if they were working with…