Tag: functionality
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The Register: FTC urges smart device makers to disclose software update lifecycles
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/27/ftc_smart_product_makers/ Source: The Register Title: FTC urges smart device makers to disclose software update lifecycles Feedly Summary: You need to know in advance when your kit will be bricked or downgraded – it’s the law Makers of software-enabled products have been put on notice by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for failing…
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Hacker News: Creating a social photo frame from scratch
Source URL: https://insignificantdatascience.substack.com/p/creating-a-custom-social-photo-frame Source: Hacker News Title: Creating a social photo frame from scratch Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a creative project where the author builds a dynamic digital photo frame powered by generative AI, specifically using DALL-E for image generation and Twilio for prompt submissions. The project…
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Hacker News: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems
Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247368 Source: Hacker News Title: Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: HumanLayer is an API that integrates human feedback and approval processes into AI systems to mitigate risks associated with deploying autonomous AI. This innovative approach allows organizations…
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The Register: China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/global_scheduling_ethernet_china_uec/ Source: The Register Title: China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads Feedly Summary: ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on Chinese tech giants last week announced the debut of chips to power a technology called “Global…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/ask-questions-of-sqlite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal Feedly Summary: I built a new plugin for my sqlite-utils CLI tool that lets you ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files on your computer. It’s called sqlite-utils-ask. Here’s how you install it:…
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Hacker News: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
Source URL: https://www.recall.ai/post/how-websockets-cost-us-1m-on-our-aws-bill? Source: Hacker News Title: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the optimization of inter-process communication (IPC) for video processing on AWS, revealing unexpected CPU usage patterns linked to WebSocket implementation, and the shift to shared memory transport to…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: open-interpreter
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/open-interpreter/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: open-interpreter Feedly Summary: open-interpreter This “natural language interface for computers" project has been around for a while, but today I finally got around to trying it out. Here’s how I ran it (without first installing anything) using uv: uvx –from open-interpreter interpreter The default mode asks you…
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Hacker News: Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots into Dangerous Tasks
Source URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jailbreak-llm Source: Hacker News Title: Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots into Dangerous Tasks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses significant security vulnerabilities associated with large language models (LLMs) used in robotic systems, revealing how easily these systems can be “jailbroken” to perform harmful actions. This raises pressing…