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  • Hacker News: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

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    Source URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research/metas-hyperscale-infrastructure-overview-and-insights/ Source: Hacker News Title: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth overview of Meta’s hyperscale infrastructure, highlighting its engineering culture, productivity initiatives, hardware-software co-design, and innovative strategies for optimizing performance and reducing costs. The insights offered are relevant for…

  • Embrace The Red: Hacking Gemini’s Memory with Prompt Injection and Delayed Tool Invocation

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/gemini-memory-persistence-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Hacking Gemini’s Memory with Prompt Injection and Delayed Tool Invocation Feedly Summary: Imagine your AI rewriting your personal history… A while ago Google added memories to Gemini. Memories allow Gemini to store user-related data across sessions, storing information in long-term memory. The feature is only available to…

  • Hacker News: How (not) to sign a JSON object (2019)

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    Source URL: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to/ Source: Hacker News Title: How (not) to sign a JSON object (2019) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed examination of authentication methods, focusing on signing JSON objects and the complexities of canonicalization. It discusses both symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic methods, particularly emphasizing the strengths…

  • Hacker News: Bolt: Bootstrap Long Chain-of-Thought in LLMs Without Distillation [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03860 Source: Hacker News Title: Bolt: Bootstrap Long Chain-of-Thought in LLMs Without Distillation [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper introduces BOLT, a method designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by generating long chains of thought (LongCoT) without relying on knowledge distillation. The…

  • News: Call for action: urgent plan needed to transition to post-quantum cryptography together

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    Source URL: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/call-for-action-urgent-plan-needed-to-transition-to-post-quantum-cryptography-together Source: News Title: Call for action: urgent plan needed to transition to post-quantum cryptography together Feedly Summary: On 7 February 2025, Europol hosted a Quantum Safe Financial Forum (QSFF) event, during which the QSFF has issued a call to action for financial institutions and policymakers, urging them to prioritise the transition to…

  • Hacker News: Is the use of reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant?

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    Source URL: https://dg-datenschutz.de/ist_die_verwendung_von_recaptcha_dsgvo_konform/ Source: Hacker News Title: Is the use of reCAPTCHA GDPR-compliant? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the implications of Google’s reCAPTCHA technology concerning GDPR compliance, emphasizing the challenges it presents in balancing user privacy with security measures against bots. It highlights the lack of legal grounds…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/7/pip-install-llm-smollm2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB Feedly Summary: I just released llm-smollm2, a new plugin for LLM that bundles a quantized copy of the SmolLM2-135M-Instruct LLM inside of the Python package. This means you can now pip install a full LLM! If…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing public beta of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-gen-ai-toolbox-for-databases-get-started-today/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing public beta of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases Feedly Summary: Today, we are thrilled to announce the public beta launch of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases in partnership with LangChain, the leading orchestration framework for developers building large language model (LLM) applications. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases…