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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions

Mar 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/tools-colophon/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions Feedly Summary: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions The /colophon page on my tools site lists all 78 of my tools along with their commit histories, including links to prompting transcripts. I wrote about how I built that. the…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions

Mar 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/responses-vs-chat-completions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions Feedly Summary: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions OpenAI released a bunch of new API platform features this morning under the headline “New tools for building agents" (their somewhat mushy interpretation of "agents" here is "systems that independently accomplish tasks on…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code

Mar 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code Feedly Summary: Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong – how come some people are reporting…

Hacker News: PurrCrypt: Steganographic Encryption Disguised as Pet Sounds

Mar 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://github.com/vxfemboy/purrcrypt Source: Hacker News Title: PurrCrypt: Steganographic Encryption Disguised as Pet Sounds Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a whimsical encryption tool called PurrCrypt that disguises real cryptographic messages as playful “pet talk,” specifically using feline and canine expressions. It creatively combines strong security practices, such as…

The Register: The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids

Mar 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/badbox_botnet_returns/ Source: The Register Title: The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids Feedly Summary: Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a…

Hacker News: Israel creating GPT-like tool using collection of Palestinian surveillance data

Mar 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance Source: Hacker News Title: Israel creating GPT-like tool using collection of Palestinian surveillance data Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reveals the development of a large language model (LLM) by Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, using intercepted Palestinian communications. This effort seeks to enhance spying capabilities…

Hacker News: CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies (2019)

Mar 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/cgnat-frustrates-all-ip-address-based-technologies Source: Hacker News Title: CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies (2019) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) on internet access, particularly its effects on security and law enforcement. With the shift to CGNAT, multiple users share a single public IP…

The Register: Governments can’t seem to stop asking for secret backdoors

Mar 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/opinion_e2ee/ Source: The Register Title: Governments can’t seem to stop asking for secret backdoors Feedly Summary: Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go Opinion With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of…

Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

Feb 25, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

Hacker News: What Your Email Address Reveals About You: LLMs and Digital Footprints

Feb 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.maximepeabody.com/blog/email-address-psychic Source: Hacker News Title: What Your Email Address Reveals About You: LLMs and Digital Footprints Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights into how large language models (LLMs) can reveal sensitive information through digital footprints, highlighting the privacy concerns surrounding AI. It discusses the risks of…

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