Tag: insights

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building effective agents

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building effective agents Feedly Summary: Building effective agents My principal complaint about the term “agents" is that while it has many different potential definitions most of the people who use it seem to assume that everyone else shares and understands the definition that they have chosen to…

  • The Register: Infosec experts divided on AI’s potential to assist red teams

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/20/gen_ai_red_teaming/ Source: The Register Title: Infosec experts divided on AI’s potential to assist red teams Feedly Summary: Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence CANALYS FORUMS APAC Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode"

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/gemini-thinking-mode/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode" Feedly Summary: Those new model releases just keep on flowing. Today it’s Google’s snappily named gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, their first entrant into the o1-style inference scaling class of models. I posted about a great essay about the significance of these just this morning. From…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Artificial Intelligence in 2030

    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/business/dealbook/artificial-intelligence-in-2030.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Artificial Intelligence in 2030 Feedly Summary: At the DealBook Summit, ten experts in artificial intelligence discussed the greatest opportunities and risks posed by the technology. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines a discussion at the DealBook Summit involving experts in artificial…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Welcome to the party, pal!

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/welcome-to-the-party-pal-2/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Welcome to the party, pal! Feedly Summary: In the last newsletter of the year, Thorsten recalls his tech-savvy gift to his family and how we can all incorporate cybersecurity protections this holiday season. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text serves as a discussion on personal…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty

    Source URL: https://github.com/tide-foundation/tidecloak-gettingstarted Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text serves as a developer guide for setting up TideCloak, an identity and access management (IAM) system built on KeyCloak, aimed at allowing developers to create secure…

  • Hacker News: Lightweight Safety Classification Using Pruned Language Models

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13435 Source: Hacker News Title: Lightweight Safety Classification Using Pruned Language Models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper presents an innovative technique called Layer Enhanced Classification (LEC) for enhancing content safety and prompt injection classification in Large Language Models (LLMs). It highlights the effectiveness of using smaller, pruned…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is AI progress slowing down?

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is AI progress slowing down? Feedly Summary: Is AI progress slowing down? This piece by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor is the single most insightful essay about AI and LLMs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s long and worth reading every inch of it – it…

  • Krebs on Security: Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/web-hacking-service-araneida-tied-to-turkish-it-firm/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm Feedly Summary: Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as…