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  • Slashdot: Apple’s Upgraded AI Models Underwhelm On Performance

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/1646256/apples-upgraded-ai-models-underwhelm-on-performance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple’s Upgraded AI Models Underwhelm On Performance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the performance of Apple’s recent AI models in comparison to competitors, revealing that they lag behind those from Google, Alibaba, OpenAI, and Meta. This assessment has implications for the company’s position…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: Partnering with Maze Security

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/partnering-with-maze/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: Partnering with Maze Security Feedly Summary: Doctors and security research have more in common than you might think. Doctors defend human bodies against an ever-shifting landscape of viruses & infections. Security researchers do the same thing, but at massive scale—protecting thousands of servers instead of a single patient.…

  • Slashdot: Apple Warns Australia Against Joining EU In Mandating iPhone App Sideloading

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/06/2249222/apple-warns-australia-against-joining-eu-in-mandating-iphone-app-sideloading?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Warns Australia Against Joining EU In Mandating iPhone App Sideloading Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple has expressed strong opposition to proposed Australian regulations that would require app sideloading, akin to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The company asserts that such policies would significantly…

  • Wired: You’re Not Ready for Quantum Cracks

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-quantum-cracks/ Source: Wired Title: You’re Not Ready for Quantum Cracks Feedly Summary: A quantum computer will likely one day be able to break the encryption protecting the world’s secrets. See how much faster such a machine could decrypt a password compared to a present-day supercomputer. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Krebs on Security: U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/u-s-sanctions-cloud-provider-funnull-as-top-source-of-pig-butchering-scams/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams Feedly Summary: The U.S. government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams, commonly known as…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral Embed

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/codestral-embed/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral Embed Feedly Summary: Codestral Embed Brand new embedding model from Mistral, specifically trained for code. Mistral claim that: Codestral Embed significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today: Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI’s large embedding model. The model is designed to work…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Updated Anthropic model comparison table

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/updated-anthropic-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Updated Anthropic model comparison table Feedly Summary: Updated Anthropic model comparison table A few details in here about Claude 4 that I hadn’t spotted elsewhere: The training cut-off date for Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 is March 2025! That’s the most recent cut-off for any…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini Diffusion

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini Diffusion Feedly Summary: Gemini Diffusion Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google’s first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers. Google describe it like this: Traditional autoregressive language models generate text…