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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…

Cloud Blog: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4-vms-based-on-intel-6th-gen-xeon-granite-rapids-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6 Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our C4 virtual machine series, with the general availability of 28 powerful new shapes. This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen…

AWS News Blog: Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-documentdb-serverless-is-now-available/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is now available Feedly Summary: Amazon DocumentDB Serverless automatically scales capacity up or down in fine-grained increments based on your application’s demand, offering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces Amazon…

The Register: AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/aws_lambda_cost_nightmare/ Source: The Register Title: AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill Feedly Summary: Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs Vercel claims it’s slashed AWS Lambda costs by up to 95 percent by reusing idle instances that…

Slashdot: A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating

Jul 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/28/210244/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortions-and-cheating?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a significant data breach involving the women’s dating safety app Tea, exposing sensitive user communications and personal information. This incident highlights critical vulnerabilities in user data…

AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: SQS fair queues, CloudWatch generative AI observability, and more (July 28, 2025)

Jul 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-sqs-fair-queues-cloudwatch-generative-ai-observability-and-more-july-28-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: SQS fair queues, CloudWatch generative AI observability, and more (July 28, 2025) Feedly Summary: To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage…

Cloud Blog: Understanding Calendar mode for Dynamic Workload Scheduler: Reserve ML GPUs and TPUs

Jul 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/dynamic-workload-scheduler-calendar-mode-reserves-gpus-and-tpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Understanding Calendar mode for Dynamic Workload Scheduler: Reserve ML GPUs and TPUs Feedly Summary: Organizations need ML compute resources that can accommodate bursty peaks and periodic troughs. That means the consumption models for AI infrastructure need to evolve to be more cost-efficient, provide term flexibility, and support rapid…

Cloud Blog: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI

Jul 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/take-an-open-model-from-discovery-to-endpoint-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Developers building with gen AI are increasingly drawn to open models for their power and flexibility. But customizing and deploying them can be a huge challenge. You’re often left wrestling…

Cloud Blog: New Cluster Director features: Simplified GUI, managed Slurm, advanced observability

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/managed-slurm-and-other-cluster-director-enhancements/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New Cluster Director features: Simplified GUI, managed Slurm, advanced observability Feedly Summary: In April, we released Cluster Director, a unified management plane that makes deploying and managing large-scale AI infrastructure simpler and more intuitive than ever before, putting the power of an AI supercomputer at your fingertips. Today,…

The Register: Coyote malware abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation to hunt banking creds

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/coyote_malware_microsoft_uia/ Source: The Register Title: Coyote malware abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation to hunt banking creds Feedly Summary: Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users’ financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.… AI…

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