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Slashdot: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/165237/reasoning-llms-deliver-value-today-so-agi-hype-doesnt-matter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The commentary by Simon Willison highlights a debate surrounding the effectiveness and applicability of large language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of their limitations and the recent critiques by various…

Cloud Blog: Automate data resilience at scale with Eon and Google Cloud Backup

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/data-resilience-eons-approach–google-cloud-best-practices/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Automate data resilience at scale with Eon and Google Cloud Backup Feedly Summary: Cloud backups were once considered as little more than an insurance policy. Now, your backups should do more! They should be autonomous, cost-efficient, and analytics-ready by default. That’s why Eon built a platform purposefully aligned…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out the new Gemini 2.5 model family

Jun 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/17/gemini-2-5/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out the new Gemini 2.5 model family Feedly Summary: After many months of previews, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash have reached general availability with new, memorable model IDs: gemini-2.5-pro and gemini-2.5-flash. They are joined by a new preview model with an unmemorable name: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17 is a…

Cloud Blog: Save early and often with multi-tier checkpointing to optimize large AI training jobs

Jun 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/using-multi-tier-checkpointing-for-large-ai-training-jobs/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Save early and often with multi-tier checkpointing to optimize large AI training jobs Feedly Summary: As foundation model training infrastructure scales to tens of thousands of accelerators, efficient utilization of those high-value resources becomes paramount. In particular, as the cluster gets larger, hardware failures become more frequent (~…

Cloud Blog: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads

Jun 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4d-vms-unparalleled-performance-for-business-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads Feedly Summary: We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful…

Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of June 9, 2025

Jun 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-167 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of June 9, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info Acer–ControlCenter Acer ControlCenter contains Remote Code Execution vulnerability. The program exposes a Windows Named Pipe that uses a custom protocol to invoke internal functions. However, this Named…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections

Jun 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/prompt-injection-design-patterns/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections Feedly Summary: This a new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM security. In this work, we describe…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot

Jun 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/11/echoleak/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot Feedly Summary: Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot Aim Labs reported CVE-2025-32711 against Microsoft 365 Copilot back in January, and the fix is…

The Register: Judge cites big OPM records leaks from 2015 in DOGE slapdown

Jun 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/judge_doge_opm_records/ Source: The Register Title: Judge cites big OPM records leaks from 2015 in DOGE slapdown Feedly Summary: Federal court blocks further data sharing, blasts lack of safeguards The US federal government’s HR department violated the law and bypassed its own cybersecurity safeguards by giving DOGE affiliates access to personnel records, a federal…

Tomasz Tunguz: Partnering with Maze Security

Jun 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/partnering-with-maze/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: Partnering with Maze Security Feedly Summary: Doctors and security research have more in common than you might think. Doctors defend human bodies against an ever-shifting landscape of viruses & infections. Security researchers do the same thing, but at massive scale—protecting thousands of servers instead of a single patient.…

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