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  • METR updates – METR: [ext, adv] 2025.03.05 Comment on AI Action Plan

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    Source URL: https://metr.org/METR_ai_action_plan_comment.pdf Source: METR updates – METR Title: [ext, adv] 2025.03.05 Comment on AI Action Plan Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses key considerations and priority actions for developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan by METR, a research nonprofit focused on AI systems and their risks to public…

  • Hacker News: AI Is Making Developers Dumb

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    Source URL: https://eli.cx/blog/ai-is-making-developers-dumb Source: Hacker News Title: AI Is Making Developers Dumb Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the potential drawbacks of relying on LLM-assisted workflows in software engineering. While acknowledging the productivity gains, it emphasizes the risks of diminishing critical thinking and foundational knowledge due to over-dependence on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/12/gemma-3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3 Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemma team released an impressive new model today (under their not-open-source Gemma license). Gemma 3 comes in four sizes – 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B – and while 1B is text-only the larger three models are all multi-modal for…

  • Hacker News: Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a comprehensive technical report on Gemma 3, an advanced multimodal language model introduced by Google DeepMind. It highlights significant architectural improvements, including an increased context size, enhanced multilingual capabilities, and innovations…

  • Hacker News: The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon

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    Source URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/03/12/on-the-insecurity-of-telecom-stacks-in-the-wake-of-salt-typhoon/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a security vulnerability discovered in FreeSWITCH, an open-source telecom software, which could allow for remote code execution due to improper handling of HTTP requests. The…

  • Cloud Blog: Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ttd-instruction-emulation-bugs/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs Feedly Summary: Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic Executive Summary This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft’s Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications. TTD relies heavily on accurate…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025

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    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…

  • Slashdot: Axiom Space and Red Hat Will Bring Edge Computing to the International Space Station

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/03/08/205225/axiom-space-and-red-hat-will-bring-edge-computing-to-the-international-space-station?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Axiom Space and Red Hat Will Bring Edge Computing to the International Space Station Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Axiom Space and Red Hat are launching a prototype data center, AxDCU-1, to the ISS, aimed at leveraging edge computing for improved data processing capabilities in space.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Politico: 5 Questions for Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/questions-for-jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Politico: 5 Questions for Jack Clark Feedly Summary: Politico: 5 Questions for Jack Clark I tend to ignore statements with this much future-facing hype, especially when they come from AI labs who are both raising money and trying to influence US technical policy. Anthropic’s Jack Clark has…

  • The Register: Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China’s Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/wallbleed_vulnerability_great_firewall/ Source: The Register Title: Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China’s Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time Feedly Summary: Boffins poked around inside censorship engines for years before Beijing patched hole Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for…