Tag: ethan
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Krebs on Security: Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/oregon-man-charged-in-rapper-bot-ddos-service/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service Feedly Summary: A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers Feedly Summary: I’ve been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread with the OpenAI team is a great…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Feedly Summary: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Geminiception
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/26/geminiception/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Geminiception Feedly Summary: Yesterday Anthropic got a bunch of buzz out of their new window.claude.complete() API which allows Claude Artifacts to run their own API calls. It turns out Gemini had beaten them to that feature by over a month, but the announcement was tucked away in…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building software on top of Large Language Models
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building software on top of Large Language Models Feedly Summary: I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they needed to get started writing code that…
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Cloud Blog: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/a-closer-look-at-earth-engine-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced a major step forward in geospatial analytics: Earth Engine in BigQuery. This new capability unlocks Earth Engine raster analytics directly in BigQuery, making advanced analysis of geospatial datasets derived from…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: In some tasks, AI is unreliable. In others, it is superhuman. You could, of course, say the same thing about calculators, but it is also clear that AI is different. It is already demonstrating general capabilities and performing a wide range of…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025 Feedly Summary: I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months to cover everything that’s happened…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/ethan-mollick/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered a 10^26 FLOP model and cost a few tens of millions of dollars to train, though future models will be much bigger. —…