Tag: real

  • The Register: After China’s Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/opinion_column_cybersec/ Source: The Register Title: After China’s Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now Feedly Summary: If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble Opinion When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt,…

  • The Register: FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/firescam_android_malware/ Source: The Register Title: FireScam infostealer poses as Telegram Premium app to surveil Android devices Feedly Summary: Once installed, it helps itself to your data like it’s a free buffet Android malware dubbed FireScam tricks people into thinking they are downloading a Telegram Premium application that stealthily monitors victims’ notifications, text messages,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/6/ais-next-leap/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life Feedly Summary: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life I’m quoted in this Washington Post story by Gerrit De Vynck about “agents" – which in this case are defined as AI systems that operate…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting François Chollet

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/6/francois-chollet/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting François Chollet Feedly Summary: I don’t think people really appreciate how simple ARC-AGI-1 was, and what solving it really means. It was designed as the simplest, most basic assessment of fluid intelligence possible. Failure to pass signifies a near-total inability to adapt or problem-solve in unfamiliar…

  • Hacker News: DeepFace: A Lightweight Deep Face Recognition Library for Python

    Source URL: https://github.com/serengil/deepface Source: Hacker News Title: DeepFace: A Lightweight Deep Face Recognition Library for Python Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text detailed the features, functionalities, and installation process of DeepFace, a state-of-the-art lightweight facial recognition framework built for Python. It showcases how DeepFace integrates various prominent…

  • Hacker News: Reflections – Sam Altman

    Source URL: https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections Source: Hacker News Title: Reflections – Sam Altman Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text reflects on the evolution and impact of OpenAI’s journey towards achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), highlighting significant moments, challenges faced, and personal insights from leadership. The narrative emphasizes the importance of governance, accountability,…

  • Hacker News: Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns

    Source URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDKfPXa5qsG2cP/human-study-on-ai-spear-phishing-campaigns Source: Hacker News Title: Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a study evaluating the effectiveness of AI models in executing personalized phishing attacks, revealing a disturbing increase in the capabilities of AI-generated spear phishing. The findings indicate high click-through…

  • Hacker News: Using watermarks to coordinate change data capture in Postgres

    Source URL: https://blog.sequinstream.com/using-watermarks-to-coordinate-change-data-capture-in-postgres/ Source: Hacker News Title: Using watermarks to coordinate change data capture in Postgres Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and solutions regarding consistency in change data capture (CDC) systems, particularly in the context of using Sequin to manage data flows from Postgres to various…

  • Hacker News: The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer

    Source URL: https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-senior-developer Source: Hacker News Title: The day I taught AI to read code like a Senior Developer Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text explains a transformative approach to AI code analysis that mimics the thought processes of senior developers, emphasizing context, pattern recognition, and impact analysis. This method…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow Feedly Summary: I published my review of 2024 in LLMs and then got into a fight with most of the internet over the phone microphone targeted ads conspiracy theory. In my last weeknotes I talked about how December in LLMs has…