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  • Slashdot: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17/1658230/microsoft-research-ai-systems-cannot-be-made-fully-secure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by Microsoft researchers highlights the inherent security vulnerabilities of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs). Despite defensive measures, the researchers assert that AI products will remain susceptible to…

  • The Register: Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/rsync_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day Feedly Summary: Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Don’t panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users found in rsync in early December –…

  • The Register: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/hlrs_supercomputer_hunter/ Source: The Register Title: Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer Feedly Summary: €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany’s High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed…

  • Hacker News: Thoughts on a Month with Devin

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    Source URL: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-devin.html Source: Hacker News Title: Thoughts on a Month with Devin Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an in-depth analysis of an AI-driven programming assistant named Devin, highlighting both its potential and failures in software development tasks. The initial successes in API interactions and documentation are contrasted…

  • Wired: Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mira-murati-startup-hire-staff/ Source: Wired Title: Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive Feedly Summary: It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the departure of Jonathan…

  • Hacker News: Cosine Similarity Isn’t the Silver Bullet We Thought It Was

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    Source URL: https://www.shaped.ai/blog/cosine-similarity-not-the-silver-bullet-we-thought-it-was Source: Hacker News Title: Cosine Similarity Isn’t the Silver Bullet We Thought It Was Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study from Netflix and Cornell University critically examines the use of cosine similarity in measuring the similarity of embeddings, revealing potential flaws and arbitrary results that could mislead…

  • Alerts: CISA and Partners Release Call to Action to Close the National Software Understanding Gap

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/16/cisa-and-partners-release-call-action-close-national-software-understanding-gap Source: Alerts Title: CISA and Partners Release Call to Action to Close the National Software Understanding Gap Feedly Summary: Today, CISA—in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E), and the National Security Agency (NSA)—published Closing the Software…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Patches Windows To Eliminate Secure Boot Bypass Threat

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/16/1755240/microsoft-patches-windows-to-eliminate-secure-boot-bypass-threat?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Patches Windows To Eliminate Secure Boot Bypass Threat Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has addressed a significant Windows vulnerability (CVE-2024-7344) that permitted attackers to bypass Secure Boot, which serves as a crucial safeguard against firmware infections. This vulnerability was present for over seven months…

  • Cloud Blog: New year, new updates to AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/a3-ultra-with-nvidia-h200-gpus-are-ga-on-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New year, new updates to AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: The last few weeks of 2024 were exhilarating as we worked to bring you multiple advancements in AI infrastructure, including the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU, A3 Ultra VMs powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs, support for up…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Alex Albert

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/alex-albert/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Alex Albert Feedly Summary: We’ve adjusted prompt caching so that you now only need to specify cache write points in your prompts – we’ll automatically check for cache hits at previous positions. No more manual tracking of read locations needed. — Alex Albert, Anthropic Tags: alex-albert,…