Tag: practical implications

  • The Register: Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/28/google_offered_millions_to_cispe/ Source: The Register Title: Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft Feedly Summary: El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive Exclusive Google Cloud dangled hundreds of million of euros worth of financial incentives to…

  • Hacker News: RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild

    Source URL: https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/romcom-exploits-firefox-and-windows-zero-days-in-the-wild/ Source: Hacker News Title: RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed analysis of critical zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in Mozilla products, specifically Firefox, Thunderbird, and the Tor Browser, which are being exploited by a Russia-aligned cyber…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/qwq/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown Feedly Summary: QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown Brand openly licensed model from Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team, this time clearly inspired by OpenAI’s work on reasoning in o1. I love how the introduce the new…

  • Hacker News: A Deep Dive into DDPMs

    Source URL: https://magic-with-latents.github.io/latent/posts/ddpms/part3/ Source: Hacker News Title: A Deep Dive into DDPMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text delves into the mathematical and algorithmic underpinnings of Diffusion Models (DDPMs) for generating images, focusing on the forward and reverse processes involved in sampling from the distributions. It highlights both the complications…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator Appears To Have Leaked

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/2020220/openais-sora-video-generator-appears-to-have-leaked?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator Appears To Have Leaked Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a group that has leaked access to OpenAI’s Sora video generator, citing protests against perceived duplicity in OpenAI’s practices. This incident raises ongoing concerns about security in AI services and…

  • Hacker News: Golang and Containers Perf Gotcha – Gomaxprocs

    Source URL: https://metoro.io/blog/go-production-performance-gotcha-gomaxprocs Source: Hacker News Title: Golang and Containers Perf Gotcha – Gomaxprocs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a performance issue faced by Metoro, an observability platform, due to incorrect configuration of the GOMAXPROCS parameter in a Go application. This led to unexpected CPU usage on larger…

  • Hacker News: Not Using Copilot

    Source URL: https://macwright.com/2024/11/20/not-using-copilot Source: Hacker News Title: Not Using Copilot Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a thoughtful exploration of the implications of LLM-based coding assistants in software engineering. It highlights the complexity of modern-day programming, the potential productivity gains through automation, and the emotional and cognitive impacts of…

  • Hacker News: How Tailscale’s infra team stays small

    Source URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/infra-team-stays-small Source: Hacker News Title: How Tailscale’s infra team stays small Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advantages of using Tailscale for infrastructure management, highlighting its simplicity and security features. By utilizing its own product, Tailscale’s infrastructure team has managed to maintain a lean team while…

  • METR Blog – METR: Evaluating frontier AI R&D capabilities of language model agents against human experts

    Source URL: https://metr.org/blog/2024-11-22-evaluating-r-d-capabilities-of-llms/ Source: METR Blog – METR Title: Evaluating frontier AI R&D capabilities of language model agents against human experts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the release of RE-Bench, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating the performance of AI agents against human experts in machine learning (ML) research…