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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o3-mini-documentation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation Feedly Summary: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/constitutional-classifiers/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Feedly Summary: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Interesting new research from Anthropic, resulting in the paper Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming. From the paper: In particular, we introduce Constitutional Classifiers, a framework…

  • Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2  Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

  • The Register: Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/backdoored_contec_patient_monitors_leak_data/ Source: The Register Title: Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP Feedly Summary: PLUS: MGM settles breach suits; AWS doesn’t trust you with security defaults; A new .NET backdoor; and more Infosec in brief The United States Food and Drug Administration has told medical facilities…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/openai-reasoning-models-advice-on-prompting/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting Feedly Summary: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting OpenAI’s documentation for their o1 and o3 “reasoning models" includes some interesting tips on how to best prompt them: Developer messages are the new system messages: Starting with o1-2024-12-17, reasoning models support developer…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Benedict Evans

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/benedict-evans/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Benedict Evans Feedly Summary: Part of the concept of ‘Disruption’ is that important new technologies tend to be bad at the things that matter to the previous generation of technology, but they do something else important instead. Asking if an LLM can do very specific and…

  • Hacker News: Sound & Efficient Generation of DOP Exploits via Programming Language Synthesis [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://ilyasergey.net/assets/pdf/papers/doppler-usenix25.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Sound & Efficient Generation of DOP Exploits via Programming Language Synthesis [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a novel approach to generating data-oriented exploits through a technique called Programming Language Synthesis (PLS). This method improves the efficiency and soundness of exploit…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-anthropic

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/llm-anthropic/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-anthropic Feedly Summary: llm-anthropic I’ve renamed my llm-claude-3 plugin to llm-anthropic, on the basis that Claude 4 will probably happen at some point so this is a better name for the plugin. If you’re a previous user of llm-claude-3 you can upgrade to the new plugin like…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: A professional workflow for translation using LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/workflow-for-translation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A professional workflow for translation using LLMs Feedly Summary: A professional workflow for translation using LLMs Tom Gally is a professional translator who has been exploring the use of LLMs since the release of GPT-4. In this Hacker News comment he shares a detailed workflow for how…