Tag: projects

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support Feedly Summary: This llama.cpp server vision support via libmtmd pull request – via Hacker News – was merged earlier today. The PR finally adds full support for vision models to the excellent llama.cpp project. It’s documented on this page, but the…

  • Cloud Blog: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/a-closer-look-at-earth-engine-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced a major step forward in geospatial analytics: Earth Engine in BigQuery. This new capability unlocks Earth Engine raster analytics directly in BigQuery, making advanced analysis of geospatial datasets derived from…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Medium is the new large

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/medium-is-the-new-large/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Medium is the new large Feedly Summary: Medium is the new large New model release from Mistral – this time closed source/proprietary. Mistral Medium claims strong benchmark scores similar to GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but is priced at $0.40/million input and $2/million output – about the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-prices.com

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/llm-prices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-prices.com Feedly Summary: llm-prices.com I’ve been maintaining a simple LLM pricing calculator since October last year. I finally decided to split it out to its own domain name (previously it was hosted at tools.simonwillison.net/llm-prices), running on Cloudflare Pages. The site runs out of my simonw/llm-prices GitHub repository.…

  • Slashdot: Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/07/1750249/curl-battles-wave-of-ai-generated-false-vulnerability-reports?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The curl open source project is facing an influx of AI-generated false security reports, which are overwhelming the project maintainers. The lead developer, Daniel Stenberg, highlighted the lack of valid results from AI…

  • AWS News Blog: In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-aws-south-america-chile-region/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region Feedly Summary: AWS announces plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026 with three Availability Zones, marking the third AWS Region in Latin American alongside existing Regions in São Paulo and Mexico,…

  • The Register: Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/curl_ai_bug_reports/ Source: The Register Title: Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports Feedly Summary: Lead dev likens flood to ‘effectively being DDoSed’ Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated “slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions…

  • The Register: Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/spinnaker_overheat/ Source: The Register Title: Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill Feedly Summary: Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project Exclusive The brain-inspired SpiNNaker machine at Manchester University suffered an overheating incident over the Easter weekend that will send a chill down the spines…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25)

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/llm-video-frames/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) Feedly Summary: The new llm-video-frames plugin can turn a video file into a sequence of JPEG frames and feed them directly into a long context vision LLM such…