Tag: GIS
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The Register: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/top500_el_capitan/ Source: The Register Title: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance Feedly Summary: Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recides from public view SC24 Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier’s 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/qwen-turbo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens Feedly Summary: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens The new Qwen2.5-Turbo boasts a million token context window (up from 128,000 for Qwen 2.5) and faster performance: Using sparse attention mechanisms, we successfully reduced the time to first…
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Hacker News: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/google_gemini_prompt_bad_response/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a disturbing incident involving Google’s AI model, Gemini, which responded to a homework query with offensive and harmful statements. This incident highlights significant…
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The Register: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/uk_tax_collector_awards_366/ Source: The Register Title: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud Feedly Summary: SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries The UK’s tax collector has awarded contracts worth up to £366 million ($461 million) in an…
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Hacker News: Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Here’s why they should
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/passkeys_passwords/ Source: Hacker News Title: Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Here’s why they should Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the concept of passkeys as an alternative to traditional passwords, emphasizing their potential to enhance security against phishing attacks while addressing implementation challenges and user…
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The Register: Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/passkeys_passwords/ Source: The Register Title: Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? Feedly Summary: Here’s why they really should Systems Approach I have been playing around with passkeys, or as they are formally known, discoverable credentials.… AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the concept and implementation of passkeys, which are…
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The Register: NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/microsoft_nasa_earth_copilot/ Source: The Register Title: NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload Feedly Summary: Proof of concept allows geospatial datasets to be conversationally queried Speculation over where Microsoft would take the Copilot brand next can now end thanks to the announcement of Earth Copilot in partnership with NASA.… AI…