Tag: Py

  • Hacker News: S1: The $6 R1 Competitor?

    Source URL: https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1 Source: Hacker News Title: S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel AI model that demonstrates significant performance scalability while being cost-effective, leveraging concepts like inference-time scaling and entropix. It highlights the implications of such advancements for AI research, including geopolitics…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o3-mini-documentation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation Feedly Summary: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting…

  • The Register: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/google_amd_microcode/ Source: The Register Title: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number Feedly Summary: Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its…

  • The Register: Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/golang_supply_chain_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years Feedly Summary: Researcher says ecosystem’s auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks A security researcher says a backdoor masquerading as a legitimate Go programming language package used by thousands of organizations was left undetected for years.……

  • Cloud Blog: Helping our partners co-market faster with AI

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/google-clouds-partner-marketing-studio-now-features-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Helping our partners co-market faster with AI Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we’re deeply invested in making AI helpful to organizations everywhere — not just for our valued customers, but for our equally important partners.  Today, we’re thrilled to introduce a significant leap forward in how we enable…

  • Wired: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/ Source: Wired Title: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System Feedly Summary: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that…

  • Cloud Blog: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cve-2023-6080-third-party-installer-abuse/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse Feedly Summary: Written By: Jacob Paullus, Daniel McNamara, Jake Rawlins, Steven Karschnia Executive Summary Mandiant exploited flaws in the Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) repair action of Lakeside Software’s SysTrack installer to obtain arbitrary code execution. An attacker with low-privilege access…