Tag: MacBook

  • Hacker News: Right to Root Access

    Source URL: https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access Source: Hacker News Title: Right to Root Access Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the need for consumer rights regarding root access and software installation on owned devices, arguing that current restrictions by manufacturers limit consumer control and choice. It emphasizes the implications for sustainability, free…

  • Hacker News: AMD ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ Debuts with RDNA 3.5 Graphics and Zen 5 CPU Cores

    Source URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-beastly-strix-halo-ryzen-ai-max-debuts-with-radical-new-memory-tech-to-feed-rdna-3-5-graphics-and-zen-5-cpu-cores Source: Hacker News Title: AMD ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ Debuts with RDNA 3.5 Graphics and Zen 5 CPU Cores Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AMD’s Strix Halo Ryzen AI Max series processors, showcased at CES 2025, promise significant advancements for both gaming and AI workloads. With impressive…

  • Slashdot: Siri ‘Unintentionally’ Recorded Private Convos; Apple Agrees To Pay $95 Million

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/02/2134211/siri-unintentionally-recorded-private-convos-apple-agrees-to-pay-95-million?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Siri ‘Unintentionally’ Recorded Private Convos; Apple Agrees To Pay $95 Million Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text discusses Apple’s $95 million settlement related to Siri’s purported unauthorized recording of private conversations. The case highlights significant privacy concerns associated with voice assistants, an area of increasing…

  • Hacker News: Developing inside a virtual machine

    Source URL: https://blog.disintegrator.dev/posts/dev-virtual-machine/ Source: Hacker News Title: Developing inside a virtual machine Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes an individual’s experience setting up a secure and efficient development environment using a virtual machine (VM) on a MacBook Pro. It highlights the benefits of containerizing development tools and dependencies within…

  • Hacker News: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/ Source: Hacker News Title: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advances in consumer-grade hardware capable of running powerful Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically highlighting Meta’s Llama 3.3 model’s performance on a MacBook Pro M2.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Feedly Summary: Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt GPT-3 class run on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Meta AI release Llama 3.3

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/llama-33/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Meta AI release Llama 3.3 Feedly Summary: Meta AI release Llama 3.3 This new Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct model from Meta AI makes some bold claims: This model delivers similar performance to Llama 3.1 405B with cost effective inference that’s feasible to run locally on common developer workstations. I have…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/28/smolvlm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model Feedly Summary: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model I’ve been having fun playing with this new vision model from the Hugging Face team behind SmolLM. They describe it as: […] a 2B VLM, SOTA for its memory…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/13/ollama-llama-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision Feedly Summary: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision Ollama released version 0.4 last week with support for Meta’s first Llama vision model, Llama 3.2. If you have Ollama installed you can fetch the 11B model (7.9 GB) like this: ollama pull llama3.2-vision Or the larger…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac Feedly Summary: There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz…