Tag: public domain

  • The Register: Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam ‘vishing’ schemes

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/voice_altering_vishing_jammer/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam ‘vishing’ schemes Feedly Summary: To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems Researchers based in Israel and India have developed a defense against automated call scams.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new defense mechanism developed…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/7/comma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Comma v0.1 1T and 2T – 7B LLMs trained on openly licensed text Feedly Summary: It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have some promising LLMs to try out which are trained entirely on openly licensed text! EleutherAI released the Pile four and a half…

  • Wired: Google’s Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Users Comes to Android

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/google-advanced-protection-vulnerable-users-lockdown-android-16/ Source: Wired Title: Google’s Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Users Comes to Android Feedly Summary: A new extra-secure mode for Android 16 will let at-risk users lock their devices down. AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary with Insight: The announcement of an extra-secure mode for Android 16 is particularly relevant for professionals…

  • Schneier on Security: NCSC Releases Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/ncsc-releases-post-quantum-cryptography-timeline.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: NCSC Releases Post-Quantum Cryptography Timeline Feedly Summary: The UK’s National Computer Security Center (part of GCHQ) released a timeline—also see their blog post—for migration to quantum-computer-resistant cryptography. It even made The Guardian. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the UK’s National Computer Security Center’s…

  • Hacker News: Tea Extensions [pdf] (2006)

    Source URL: https://tayloredge.com/reference/Mathematics/TEA-XTEA.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Tea Extensions [pdf] (2006) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses the Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA), describing its characteristics, efficiency, and practical implementations in various programming languages. As a lightweight and open-source encryption technique, TEA is notable for its simplicity and speed,…

  • Hacker News: Fruit of the Poisonous Llama?

    Source URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llama/ Source: Hacker News Title: Fruit of the Poisonous Llama? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a lawsuit against vendors of Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on allegations of copyright infringement due to unconsented use of copyrighted materials in training datasets. It highlights concerns regarding the legality…

  • Hacker News: Phi4 Available on Ollama

    Source URL: https://ollama.com/library/phi4 Source: Hacker News Title: Phi4 Available on Ollama Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes Phi 4, a state-of-the-art language model focusing on generative AI capabilities. It highlights the model’s design, enhancements for safety and accuracy, and its primary and out-of-scope use cases, along with regulatory considerations.…

  • The Register: Fining Big Tech isn’t working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/22/ai_poisoned_tree/ Source: The Register Title: Fining Big Tech isn’t working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain Feedly Summary: It’s all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want Opinion Last year, I wrote a piece here on El Reg about being murdered…

  • Hacker News: Harvard Is Releasing a Free AI Training Dataset

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/harvard-ai-training-dataset-openai-microsoft/ Source: Hacker News Title: Harvard Is Releasing a Free AI Training Dataset Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Harvard University has released a significant dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books to aid in training large language models and other AI tools. This initiative is part of efforts to…