Tag: offs

  • The Register: Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/microsoft_preps_big_guns_for/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs Feedly Summary: IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer’s checkbook Canalys Forums EMEA 2024 When Microsoft needs to make a market, it turns to the channel – a nebulous term used for resellers, distributors…

  • Hacker News: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

    Source URL: https://www.404media.co/are-overemployed-ghost-engineers-making-six-figures-to-do-nothing/ Source: Hacker News Title: Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a viral tweet by Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov-Blanch regarding an algorithm that identifies “Ghost Engineers,” software engineers who perform minimally at tech companies, thus exposing a…

  • Hacker News: I Didn’t Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don’t Either

    Source URL: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/why-i-left-kubernetes-for-google-cloud-run Source: Hacker News Title: I Didn’t Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don’t Either Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The author discusses their transition from Kubernetes to Google Cloud Run, highlighting the latter’s cost-effectiveness, simplicity, scalability, and limitations of Kubernetes. This insight is particularly useful for professionals in cloud…

  • CSA: Can AI Balance Security and Usability Effectively?

    Source URL: https://www.zscaler.com/cxorevolutionaries/insights/bringing-security-vs-usability-pendulum-stop Source: CSA Title: Can AI Balance Security and Usability Effectively? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the fundamental challenge of balancing security and user experience in cybersecurity, positing that artificial intelligence (AI) can be employed to achieve this equilibrium. It emphasizes a shift towards AI-powered, adaptive security…

  • Hacker News: Transactional Object Storage?

    Source URL: https://blog.mbrt.dev/posts/transactional-object-storage/ Source: Hacker News Title: Transactional Object Storage? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the challenges and solutions in developing a portable and cost-effective database solution using object storage services like AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage. By reinventing aspects of traditional databases, the author outlines a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…

  • Slashdot: DeepSeek’s First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/2129207/deepseeks-first-reasoning-model-r1-lite-preview-beats-openai-o1-performance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepSeek’s First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: DeepSeek, a Chinese AI offshoot, has released a new reasoning-focused large language model, the R1-Lite-Preview, via its AI chatbot. This model demonstrates advanced reasoning capabilities and transparency in its processing, drawing attention…

  • Hacker News: Hyrumtoken: A Go package to encrypt pagination tokens

    Source URL: https://github.com/ssoready/hyrumtoken Source: Hacker News Title: Hyrumtoken: A Go package to encrypt pagination tokens Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the “hyrumtoken” Go package, which provides a method for encrypting pagination tokens in APIs. It highlights the importance of maintaining opacity for these tokens to prevent users from…

  • Hacker News: SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03684 Source: Hacker News Title: SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text presents “SmoothLLM,” an innovative algorithm designed to enhance the security of Large Language Models (LLMs) against jailbreaking attacks, which manipulate models into producing undesirable content. The proposal highlights a…