Tag: heap

  • Wired: Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-data-centers-cheap-energy/ Source: Wired Title: Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy Feedly Summary: Warehouses full of servers are hungry for power, no matter who supplies it. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the burgeoning industry of data centers in Johor, Malaysia, particularly fueled by generative…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Phi-4 Technical Report

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/phi-4-technical-report/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Phi-4 Technical Report Feedly Summary: Phi-4 Technical Report Phi-4 is the latest LLM from Microsoft Research. It has 14B parameters and claims to be a big leap forward in the overall Phi series. From Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft’s Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning: Phi-4 outperforms…

  • Hacker News: The report for the 2024 security audit of the Mullvad app is now available

    Source URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/the-report-for-the-2024-security-audit-of-the-app-is-now-available Source: Hacker News Title: The report for the 2024 security audit of the Mullvad app is now available Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details a comprehensive security audit conducted on the Mullvad VPN app, highlighting findings related to vulnerabilities, overall security posture, and remediation actions taken.…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/12/10/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-49138 Microsoft Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) Driver Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Feedly Summary: Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt GPT-3 class run on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Yegge

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/steve-yegge/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steve Yegge Feedly Summary: In the past, these decisions were so consequential, they were basically one-way doors, in Amazon language. That’s why we call them ‘architectural decisions!’ You basically have to live with your choice of database, authentication, JavaScript UI framework, almost forever. But that’s changing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin)

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/amazon-nova/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin) Feedly Summary: Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference. The new model family is called Amazon Nova and comes in three sizes: Micro, Lite and Pro. I built…

  • Krebs on Security: Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/why-phishers-love-new-tlds-like-shop-top-and-xyz/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz Feedly Summary: Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz —…

  • Hacker News: What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?

    Source URL: https://neuralmagic.com/blog/24-sparse-llama-smaller-models-for-efficient-gpu-inference/ Source: Hacker News Title: What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document introduces Sparse Llama 3.1, a foundational model designed to improve efficiency in large language models (LLMs) through innovative sparsity and quantization techniques. The model offers significant benefits in…

  • Wired: How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-do-you-get-to-artificial-general-intelligence-think-lighter/ Source: Wired Title: How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter Feedly Summary: Billions of dollars in hardware and exorbitant use costs are squashing AI innovation. LLMs need to get leaner and cheaper if progress is to be made. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the anticipated…