Tag: NPU

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/llm-chess/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Feedly Summary: OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now Last week Dynomight published Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess pointing out that most LLMs are terrible chess players with the exception of…

  • Hacker News: Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work

    Source URL: https://portswigger.net/research/listen-to-the-whispers-web-timing-attacks-that-actually-work Source: Hacker News Title: Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that work Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text introduces novel web timing attack techniques capable of breaching server security by exposing hidden vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and attack surfaces more effectively than previous methods. It emphasizes the practical…

  • Cloud Blog: Don’t let resource exhaustion leave your users hanging: A guide to handling 429 errors

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/learn-how-to-handle-429-resource-exhaustion-errors-in-your-llms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Don’t let resource exhaustion leave your users hanging: A guide to handling 429 errors Feedly Summary: Large language models (LLMs) give developers immense power and scalability, but managing resource consumption is key to delivering a smooth user experience. LLMs demand significant computational resources, which means it’s essential to…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing Mistral AI’s Large-Instruct-2411 and Codestral-2411 on Vertex AI

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-mistral-ais-large-instruct-2411-and-codestral-2411-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Mistral AI’s Large-Instruct-2411 and Codestral-2411 on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: In July, we announced the availability of Mistral AI’s models on Vertex AI: Codestral for code generation tasks, Mistral Large 2 for high-complexity tasks, and the lightweight Mistral Nemo for reasoning tasks like creative writing. Today, we’re…

  • The Register: ‘Alarming’ bugs lay low in Ubuntu Server utility for 10 years

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/qualys_ubuntu_server_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Alarming’ bugs lay low in Ubuntu Server utility for 10 years Feedly Summary: Update now: Qualys says vulnerabilities give root and are ‘easily exploitable’ Researchers at Qualys refuse to release exploit code for five bugs in Ubuntu Server’s needrestart utility that allow unprivileged attackers to gain root access…

  • CSA: Establishing an Always-Ready State with Continuous Controls Monitoring

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/establishing-an-always-ready-state-with-continuous-controls-monitoring Source: CSA Title: Establishing an Always-Ready State with Continuous Controls Monitoring Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the concept of Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) as a proactive solution for organizations to maintain compliance and security in an ever-evolving regulatory landscape. It emphasizes the role of automation and…

  • The Register: Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/gartner_agentic_ai/ Source: The Register Title: Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do? Feedly Summary: Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness Among the optimism and opportunities perceived around AI agents, Gartner has spotted some risks – namely that organizations might create “thousands of bots, but…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steven Johnson

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/steven-johnson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steven Johnson Feedly Summary: When we started working on what became NotebookLM in the summer of 2022, we could fit about 1,500 words in the context window. Now we can fit up to 1.5 million words. (And using various other tricks, effectively fit 25 million words.)…

  • Slashdot: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0057206/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details five local privilege escalation vulnerabilities found in the Linux utility “needrestart,” crucial for professionals in security and compliance to recognize, as they highlight significant risks associated with resource…