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  • Unit 42: Blitz Malware: A Tale of Game Cheats and Code Repositories

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/blitz-malware-2025/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Blitz Malware: A Tale of Game Cheats and Code Repositories Feedly Summary: Blitz malware, active since 2024 and updated in 2025, was spread via game cheats. We discuss its infection vector and abuse of Hugging Face for C2. The post Blitz Malware: A Tale of Game Cheats and…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing the next generation of AI inference, powered by llm-d

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/enhancing-vllm-for-distributed-inference-with-llm-d/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing the next generation of AI inference, powered by llm-d Feedly Summary: As the world transitions from prototyping AI solutions to deploying AI at scale, efficient AI inference is becoming the gating factor. Two years ago, the challenge was the ever-growing size of AI models. Cloud infrastructure providers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/vision-language-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) Feedly Summary: Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) Extremely useful review of the last year in vision and multi-modal LLMs. So much has happened! I’m particularly excited about the range of small open weight vision models that are now available. Models…

  • Slashdot: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88%

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0113217/alibabas-zerosearch-teaches-ai-to-search-without-search-engines-cuts-training-costs-by-88?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88% Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alibaba Group’s “ZeroSearch” technique showcases an innovative approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to develop search capabilities without relying on external search engines, demonstrating significant cost…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It All!

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/28/qwen25-omni/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It All! Feedly Summary: Qwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It All! I’m not sure how I missed this one at the time, but last month (March 27th) Qwen released their first multi-modal model that can handle audio and…

  • Slashdot: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/20/0332214/open-source-advocate-argues-deepseek-is-a-movement-its-linux-all-over-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of DeepSeek as an influential open-source AI model and its impact on global collaboration in AI development, particularly highlighting the role of platforms…

  • Cloud Blog: Next 25 developer keynote: From prompt, to agent, to work, to fun

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next25-developer-keynote-recap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Next 25 developer keynote: From prompt, to agent, to work, to fun Feedly Summary: Attending a tech conference like Google Cloud Next can feel like drinking from a firehose — all the news, all the sessions, and breakouts, all the learning and networking… But after a busy couple…