Tag: Meta

  • Slashdot: AMD To Lay Off 4% of Workforce, or About 1,000 Employees

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/14/0726238/amd-to-lay-off-4-of-workforce-or-about-1000-employees?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AMD To Lay Off 4% of Workforce, or About 1,000 Employees Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AMD’s recent announcement to cut 4% of its global workforce highlights its strategic pivot to compete in the AI chip market, which is currently led by Nvidia. This move underscores…

  • The Register: NatWest blocks bevy of apps in clampdown on unmonitorable comms

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/natwest_blocks_bevy_of_apps/ Source: The Register Title: NatWest blocks bevy of apps in clampdown on unmonitorable comms Feedly Summary: From guidance to firm action… no more WhatsApp, Meta’s Messenger, Signal, Telegram and more The full list of messaging apps officially blocked by Brit banking and insurance giant NatWest Group is more extensive than WhatsApp, Meta’s…

  • The Register: Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/13/snowflake_intelligence/ Source: The Register Title: Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data Feedly Summary: Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources Snowflake is set to preview a new platform it claims will help organizations build chatbots that can serve up data from its own analytics systems and…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/12/cisa-adds-five-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added five new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2021-26086 Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2014-2120 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability CVE-2021-41277 Metabase GeoJSON API Local…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Efficiency engine: How three startups deliver results faster with Vertex AI

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/how-three-startups-deliver-results-faster-with-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Efficiency engine: How three startups deliver results faster with Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Have you heard of the monkey and the pedestal? Astro Teller, the head of Google’s X “moonshot factory,” likes to use this metaphor to describe tackling the biggest challenge first, despite being tempted by the…

  • Hacker News: The Lost Reading Items of Ilya Sutskever’s AI Reading List

    Source URL: https://tensorlabbet.com/2024/11/11/lost-reading-items/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Lost Reading Items of Ilya Sutskever’s AI Reading List Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text analyzes the reconstruction of Ilya Sutskever’s 2020 AI reading list, revealing that several important items were lost due to OpenAI’s email deletion policy. The author aims to…

  • Hacker News: Security Is a Useless Controls Problem

    Source URL: https://securityis.substack.com/p/security-is-a-useless-controls-problem Source: Hacker News Title: Security Is a Useless Controls Problem Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text critically examines the prevalence of ineffective security controls in the industry, using an analogy of chimpanzees to illustrate how institutional behaviors persist without understanding their origins. It emphasizes the need for…