Tag: public welfare
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The Register: Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/epa_dhs_gsa_get_failing_grades/ Source: The Register Title: Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices Feedly Summary: CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations The Government Accountability Office (GAO) scolded a trio of federal agencies on Monday because their CIOs haven’t…
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Wired: Senators Warn DOGE’s Social Security Administration Work Could Break Benefits
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-social-security-administration-benefits/ Source: Wired Title: Senators Warn DOGE’s Social Security Administration Work Could Break Benefits Feedly Summary: “This rush job risks people’s private data, creates security gaps, and could result in catastrophic cuts to all benefits," Senator Elizabeth Warren says of DOGE’s plans to “hastily upgrade” SSA IT systems. AI Summary and Description: Yes…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles Feedly Summary: I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event – here’s my talks from October 2023 and…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM Feedly Summary: A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card – which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to “take initiative" in…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Feedly Summary: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic’s CDN because they don’t appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic’s system cards are always worth…
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Alerts: CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Medusa Ransomware
Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/03/12/cisa-and-partners-release-cybersecurity-advisory-medusa-ransomware Source: Alerts Title: CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Medusa Ransomware Feedly Summary: Today, CISA—in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC)—released joint Cybersecurity Advisory, #StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware. This advisory provides tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs), and detection…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/building-a-snap-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Feedly Summary: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps). This is a domain which existing models…
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Schneier on Security: Trust Issues in AI
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/trust-issues-in-ai.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Trust Issues in AI Feedly Summary: For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to…