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  • The Register: Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/nvidia_a6000_gpu_gpuhammer/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer Feedly Summary: Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun The Rowhammer attack on computer memory is back, and for the first time, it’s able to mess with bits in Nvidia GPUs, despite defenses designed to protect against this kind…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/ai-open-source-productivity/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Feedly Summary: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity METR – for Model Evaluation & Threat Research – are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/kimi-k2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Feedly Summary: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. My HuggingFace storage calculator says the repository is 958.52 GB. It’s a…

  • Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/ Source: Wired Title: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’ Feedly Summary: Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison’s llm tool

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/7/become-a-command-line-superhero-with-simon-willisons-llm-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison’s llm tool Feedly Summary: Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison’s llm tool Christopher Smith ran a mini hackathon in Albany New York at the weekend around uses of my LLM – the first in-person event I’m aware of dedicated…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…

  • Slashdot: XBOW’s AI-Powered Pentester Grabs Top Rank on HackerOne, Raises $75M to Grow Platform

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1847237/xbows-ai-powered-pentester-grabs-top-rank-on-hackerone-raises-75m-to-grow-platform Source: Slashdot Title: XBOW’s AI-Powered Pentester Grabs Top Rank on HackerOne, Raises $75M to Grow Platform Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of “Xbow,” an autonomous AI-powered penetration tester that has excelled in finding and reporting vulnerabilities in enterprise software. This innovation highlights the trend…