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  • Slashdot: US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/0332203/us-to-reportedly-sanction-200-more-chinese-chip-firms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. government’s imposition of sanctions on Chinese chipmakers is a strategic move aimed at curtailing China’s semiconductor and AI capabilities. This focus on restricting technology exports, including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM),…

  • The Register: Britain Putin up stronger AI defences to counter growing cyber threats

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/uk_ai_security/ Source: The Register Title: Britain Putin up stronger AI defences to counter growing cyber threats Feedly Summary: ‘Be in no doubt: the UK and others in this room are watching Russia’ The government of the United Kingdom on Monday announced the formation of a Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) to make…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/26/s3-conditional-writes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes Feedly Summary: Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents…

  • Hacker News: Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems

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    Source URL: https://www.modular.com/blog/understanding-simd-infinite-complexity-of-trivial-problems Source: Hacker News Title: Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements and challenges surrounding SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) operations, particularly in the context of high-performance computing for AI applications. The focus is on how to effectively leverage modern…

  • Slashdot: Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/25/0539244/craigslist-founder-gives-300m-to-fund-critical-us-infrastructure-cybersecurity?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Craig Newmark expresses serious concerns about cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and is actively funding initiatives to bolster the protection of critical infrastructure. His philanthropic efforts include a combined investment of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: Often, you are told to do this by treating AI like an intern. In retrospect, however, I think that this particular analogy ends up making people use AI in very constrained ways. To put it bluntly, any recent frontier model (by which…

  • Hacker News: Open source audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime

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    Source URL: https://venturebeat.com/ai/aiola-unveils-open-source-ai-audio-transcription-model-that-obscures-sensitive-info-in-realtime/ Source: Hacker News Title: Open source audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details a new open-source AI model, Whisper-NER from Israeli startup aiOla, designed for audio transcription while enhancing privacy through named entity recognition (NER). This model integrates…

  • The Register: Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America’s leaky water infrastructure

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/24/water_defcon_hacker/ Source: The Register Title: Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America’s leaky water infrastructure Feedly Summary: Six sites targeted for security clean-up, just 49,994 to go A plan for hackers to help secure America’s critical infrastructure has kicked off with six US water companies signing up to let coders kick the tires…

  • Hacker News: Not Using Copilot

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    Source URL: https://macwright.com/2024/11/20/not-using-copilot Source: Hacker News Title: Not Using Copilot Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a thoughtful exploration of the implications of LLM-based coding assistants in software engineering. It highlights the complexity of modern-day programming, the potential productivity gains through automation, and the emotional and cognitive impacts of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…