Tag: making

  • The Register: Pentagon declares war on ‘outdated’ software buying

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/us_dod_software_procurement/ Source: The Register Title: Pentagon declares war on ‘outdated’ software buying Feedly Summary: (If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests) The US Department of Defense (DoD) is overhauling its “outdated" software procurement systems, and insists it’s putting security at the forefront of decision-making processes.… AI Summary and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/gemini-25-pro-preview/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance New Gemini 2.5 Pro “Google I/O edition" model, released a few weeks ahead of that annual developer conference. They claim even better frontend coding performance, highlighting their #1 ranking…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Reaches Agreement To Buy Startup Windsurf For $3 Billion

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/06/0152211/openai-reaches-agreement-to-buy-startup-windsurf-for-3-billion?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Reaches Agreement To Buy Startup Windsurf For $3 Billion Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s planned acquisition of the AI-assisted coding tool Windsurf for approximately $3 billion marks a significant move in enhancing its coding capabilities, particularly for professionals involved in AI development and infrastructure.…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Proactive threat hunting with Talos IR

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/proactive-threat-hunting-with-talos-ir/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Proactive threat hunting with Talos IR Feedly Summary: Learn more about the framework Talos IR uses to conduct proactive threat hunts, and how we can help you stay one step ahead of emerging threats. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines Cisco Talos’ proactive threat…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Max Woolf

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/max-woolf/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Max Woolf Feedly Summary: Two things can be true simultaneously: (a) LLM provider cost economics are too negative to return positive ROI to investors, and (b) LLMs are useful for solving problems that are meaningful and high impact, albeit not to the AGI hype that would…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25)

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/llm-video-frames/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) Feedly Summary: The new llm-video-frames plugin can turn a video file into a sequence of JPEG frames and feed them directly into a long context vision LLM such…