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  • Hacker News: Will AI Agents Revolutionize How We Query and Use Data?

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    Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036779 Source: Hacker News Title: Will AI Agents Revolutionize How We Query and Use Data? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The introduction of AI Data Agents in Snowflake’s Cortex marks a significant shift in data workflows, moving from traditional query-driven methods to more dynamic goal-driven automation. By enabling agents…

  • The Register: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/fbi_cisa_unforgivable_buffer_overflow/ Source: The Register Title: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns Feedly Summary: FBI, CISA harrumph at Microsoft and VMware in call for coders to quit baking avoidable defects into stuff US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities “unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/nomic-embed-text-v2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model Feedly Summary: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model Nomic continue to release the most interesting and powerful embedding models. Their latest is Embed Text V2, an Apache 2.0 licensed multi-lingual 1.9GB…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/building-a-snap-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Feedly Summary: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps). This is a domain which existing models…

  • Alerts: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/12/cisa-and-fbi-warn-malicious-cyber-actors-using-buffer-overflow-vulnerabilities-compromise-software Source: Alerts Title: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software Feedly Summary: CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Secure by Design Alert, Eliminating Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as part of their cooperative Secure by Design Alert series—an ongoing series aimed…

  • Slashdot: Ex-Google Chief Warns West To Focus On Open-Source AI in Competition With China

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/1345256/ex-google-chief-warns-west-to-focus-on-open-source-ai-in-competition-with-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ex-Google Chief Warns West To Focus On Open-Source AI in Competition With China Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Eric Schmidt’s warning highlights the strategic need for Western countries to develop open-source AI models to compete with China’s advancements in AI technology. He emphasizes that the closed…

  • Cloud Blog: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat Feedly Summary: Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-sort

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/11/llm-sort/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-sort Feedly Summary: llm-sort Delightful LLM plugin by Evangelos Lamprou which adds the ability to perform “semantic search" – allowing you to sort the contents of a file based on using a prompt against an LLM to determine sort order. Best illustrated by these examples from the…

  • Hacker News: Replicating Deepseek-R1 for $4500: RL Boosts 1.5B Model Beyond o1-preview

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    Source URL: https://github.com/agentica-project/deepscaler Source: Hacker News Title: Replicating Deepseek-R1 for $4500: RL Boosts 1.5B Model Beyond o1-preview Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes the release of DeepScaleR, an open-source project aimed at democratizing reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs). It highlights the project’s capabilities, training methodologies, and…