Tag: information security

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/gemini-exp-1206/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206 Feedly Summary: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206 Google’s Jeff Dean: Today’s the one year anniversary of our first Gemini model releases! And it’s never looked better. Check out our newest release, Gemini-exp-1206, in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API! I upgraded my llm-gemini…

  • Cloud Blog: Get cost-effective protection for SAP HANA with Backup and DR Service

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-backup-and-dr-service-for-sap-hana/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Get cost-effective protection for SAP HANA with Backup and DR Service Feedly Summary: Like many businesses, your SAP HANA database is the heart of your SAP business applications, a repository of mission-critical data that drives your operations. But what happens when disaster strikes? Protecting a SAP HANA system…

  • Hacker News: Romania cancels election after systems targeted in cyberattacks

    Source URL: https://www.techradar.com/pro/romania-cancels-election-after-systems-targeted-in-cyberattacks-over-85-000-times Source: Hacker News Title: Romania cancels election after systems targeted in cyberattacks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses the cancellation of Romania’s presidential election due to significant cyberattacks aimed at its electoral system, highlighting geopolitical tensions, state-sponsored influence campaigns, and potential implications for information security and…

  • Wired: How ChatGPT’s Canvas Can Help You Use AI More Productively

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-chatgpt-canvas-productivity/ Source: Wired Title: How ChatGPT’s Canvas Can Help You Use AI More Productively Feedly Summary: Canvas, which is available to OpenAI’s paid subscribers, is a little bit like an AI-powered Google Docs. Here’s how to use it. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s introduction of the Canvas feature…

  • The Register: Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spyware

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/06/badass_russian_techie_outsmarts_fsb/ Source: The Register Title: Badass Russian techie outsmarts FSB, flees Putinland all while being tracked with spyware Feedly Summary: Threatened with life in prison, Kyiv charity worker gives middle finger to state spies A Russian programmer defied the Federal Security Service (FSB) by publicizing the fact his phone was infected with spyware…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: datasette-enrichments-llm

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/5/datasette-enrichments-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: datasette-enrichments-llm Feedly Summary: datasette-enrichments-llm Today’s new alpha release is datasette-enrichments-llm, a plugin for Datasette 1.0a+ that provides an enrichment that lets you run prompts against data from one or more column and store the result in another column. So far it’s a light re-implementation of the existing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting OpenAI o1 System Card

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/5/openai-o1-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting OpenAI o1 System Card Feedly Summary: When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time. Exfiltration attempts: When o1 found…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: New Pleias 1.0 LLMs trained exclusively on openly licensed data

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/5/pleias-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New Pleias 1.0 LLMs trained exclusively on openly licensed data Feedly Summary: New Pleias 1.0 LLMs trained exclusively on openly licensed data I wrote about the Common Corpus public domain dataset back in March. Now Pleias, the team behind Common Corpus, have released the first family of…

  • Slashdot: Elon Musk’s xAI Plans Massive Expansion of AI Supercomputer in Memphis

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/05/0246248/elon-musks-xai-plans-massive-expansion-of-ai-supercomputer-in-memphis Source: Slashdot Title: Elon Musk’s xAI Plans Massive Expansion of AI Supercomputer in Memphis Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Elon Musk’s xAI is significantly expanding its supercomputer capabilities in Memphis, Tennessee, with plans to increase from 100,000 to at least one million GPUs. This expansion not only intensifies competition…

  • The Register: British hospitals hit by cyberattacks still battling to get systems back online

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/hospital_cyberattack/ Source: The Register Title: British hospitals hit by cyberattacks still battling to get systems back online Feedly Summary: Children’s hospital and cardiac unit say criminals broke in via shared ‘digital gateway service’ Both National Health Service trusts that oversee the various hospitals hit by separate cyberattacks last week have confirmed they’re still…