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  • Hacker News: Apple rearranged its XNU kernel with exclaves

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/kernel_sanders_apple_rearranges_xnu/ Source: Hacker News Title: Apple rearranged its XNU kernel with exclaves Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple is enhancing the security of its XNU kernel through the introduction of “exclaves,” which create isolated domains that enhance protection against kernel compromises. This architectural shift aims to combine the advantages…

  • Wired: DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/gsai-chatbot-1500-federal-workers/ Source: Wired Title: DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers Feedly Summary: Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The deployment of GSAi, a proprietary AI chatbot by the Department of Government Efficiency,…

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

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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: Model pickers are a UX failure

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    Source URL: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/ai-model-pickers-are-a-design-failure-not-a-feature Source: Hacker News Title: Model pickers are a UX failure Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text critiques the user experience of AI coding assistants that require developers to choose between multiple models. It argues that such model pickers detract from productivity by imposing unnecessary decision-making burdens on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/5/qwq-32b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning Feedly Summary: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning New Apache 2 licensed reasoning model from Qwen: We are excited to introduce QwQ-32B, a model with 32 billion parameters that achieves performance comparable to DeepSeek-R1, which boasts 671 billion parameters…

  • Cloud Blog: GoStringUngarbler: Deobfuscating Strings in Garbled Binaries

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/gostringungarbler-deobfuscating-strings-in-garbled-binaries/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GoStringUngarbler: Deobfuscating Strings in Garbled Binaries Feedly Summary: Written by: Chuong Dong Overview In our day-to-day work, the FLARE team often encounters malware written in Go that is protected using garble. While recent advancements in Go analysis from tools like IDA Pro have simplified the analysis process, garble…

  • The Register: Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/workday_talks_up_ai_agent_platform/ Source: The Register Title: Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts Feedly Summary: CEO assures investors he’ll plough headcount savings into risk-management enterprise product Workday has confirmed that AI did indeed cost the job of colleagues that are leaving the organization following a restructuring plan cooked…

  • Cloud Blog: Enhancing AlloyDB vector search with inline filtering and enterprise observability

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/enhancing-alloydb-vector-search-with-inline-filtering-and-enterprise-observability/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Enhancing AlloyDB vector search with inline filtering and enterprise observability Feedly Summary: Many specialized vector databases today require you to create complex pipelines and applications in order to get the data you need. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL offers Google Research’s, state-of-the-art vector search index, ScaNN, enabling you to optimize…

  • Slashdot: AI Reshapes Corporate Workforce as Companies Halt Traditional Hiring

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/24/1847230/ai-reshapes-corporate-workforce-as-companies-halt-traditional-hiring?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Reshapes Corporate Workforce as Companies Halt Traditional Hiring Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Major corporations are significantly reorganizing their workforces around artificial intelligence (AI), with numerous layoffs in traditional roles as companies pivot to AI-focused job opportunities. A notable trend reveals a widespread replacement of…

  • Hacker News: The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably Is with Parquet and Polars

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    Source URL: https://minimaxir.com/2025/02/embeddings-parquet/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably Is with Parquet and Polars Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a detailed overview of generating and utilizing text embeddings from large language models, specifically applied to Magic: The Gathering cards. It emphasizes the…