Tag: open

  • Hacker News: Willow, Our Quantum Chip

    Source URL: https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/ Source: Hacker News Title: Willow, Our Quantum Chip Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text announces the launch of Google’s latest quantum chip, Willow, which significantly enhances quantum error correction and boasts unparalleled performance in quantum computing tasks compared to classical supercomputers. The development of Willow marks a…

  • Cloud Blog: How Fullstory uncovers user insights with Vertex AI serving Gemini 1.5 Pro

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/how-fullstory-uses-vertex-ai-and-gemini-to-boost-conversion-rates/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Fullstory uncovers user insights with Vertex AI serving Gemini 1.5 Pro Feedly Summary: Mapping the user experience is one of the most persistent challenges a business can face. Fullstory, a leading behavioral data analytics platform, helps organizations identify pain points and optimize digital experiences by reproducing  user…

  • The Register: Crooks stole AWS credentials from misconfigured sites then kept them in open S3 bucket

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/aws_credentials_stolen/ Source: The Register Title: Crooks stole AWS credentials from misconfigured sites then kept them in open S3 bucket Feedly Summary: ShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Exclusive A massive online heist targeting AWS customers during which digital crooks abused misconfigurations in public websites and stole source code, thousands of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Feedly Summary: Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt GPT-3 class run on…

  • Hacker News: Abusing Git branch names to compromise a PyPI package

    Source URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1001215/ Source: Hacker News Title: Abusing Git branch names to compromise a PyPI package Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident highlights a security vulnerability related to automated processes in GitHub that can lead to the compromise of Python packages on PyPI. Particularly, the use of a flawed script…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review

    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2024-year-in-review Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review Feedly Summary: The 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level. For 2024, we added several new metrics, as well as the ability to do year-over-year and…

  • The Register: OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/openwrt_firmware_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare Feedly Summary: A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time OpenWrt users should upgrade their images to the same version to protect themselves from a possible supply chain attack reported to the open source Wi-Fi router…

  • Schneier on Security: Trust Issues in AI

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/trust-issues-in-ai.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Trust Issues in AI Feedly Summary: For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to…

  • Hacker News: How to Create Intelligently Self-Modifying Software (Framework Release Soon)

    Source URL: https://github.com/EricArthurBlair1010/semantic_inference_programming_information Source: Hacker News Title: How to Create Intelligently Self-Modifying Software (Framework Release Soon) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence, focusing on the development of self-modifying software. This potential technology raises significant concerns regarding cybersecurity, particularly in the context of creating intelligent,…

  • Hacker News: Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain

    Source URL: https://flatt.tech/research/posts/compromising-openwrt-supply-chain-sha256-collision/ Source: Hacker News Title: Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text presents a comprehensive security analysis regarding vulnerabilities in the OpenWrt firmware supply chain, detailing how command injection and SHA-256 collisions can be exploited. It emphasizes the importance of secure coding practices and robust…