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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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Hacker News: Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming

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    Source URL: https://www.theangle.com/p/nvidia-might-do-for-desktop-ai-what Source: Hacker News Title: Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses NVIDIA’s keynote at CES, where CEO Jensen Huang introduced ‘Project Digits,’ a new initiative aimed at providing powerful AI processing capabilities for individual users.…

  • The Register: Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/make_up_thwart_facial_recognition/ Source: The Register Title: Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition Feedly Summary: You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy Researchers at cyber-defense contractor PeopleTec have found that facial recognition algorithms’ focus on specific areas of the face opens the door to subtler surveillance avoidance strategies.……

  • The Register: ‘Savvy’ shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/babel_fish_translations/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Savvy’ shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages Feedly Summary: Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio Meta has developed a machine learning model its researchers claim offers near-instant speech-to-speech translation between around 36 languages.… AI Summary and…

  • Hacker News: Researchers have identified a total of 6 vulnerabilities in rsync

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    Source URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/3 Source: Hacker News Title: Researchers have identified a total of 6 vulnerabilities in rsync Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses multiple vulnerabilities identified in the rsync software, including a critical heap buffer overflow that allows arbitrary code execution with minimal access rights. This communication is especially…