Tag: Sable
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…
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Slashdot: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0057206/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details five local privilege escalation vulnerabilities found in the Linux utility “needrestart,” crucial for professionals in security and compliance to recognize, as they highlight significant risks associated with resource…
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The Register: Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/19/palo_alto_networks_patches/ Source: The Register Title: Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches Feedly Summary: Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers Palo Alto Networks (PAN) finally released a CVE identifier and patch for the zero-day exploit that caused such a fuss last week.… AI Summary and…
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Hacker News: Why LLMs Within Software Development May Be a Dead End
Source URL: https://thenewstack.io/why-llms-within-software-development-may-be-a-dead-end/ Source: Hacker News Title: Why LLMs Within Software Development May Be a Dead End Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a critical perspective on the limitations of current Large Language Models (LLMs) regarding their composability, explainability, and security implications for software development. It argues that LLMs…
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Slashdot: Google Rolls Out Call Screening AI To Thwart Phone Fraudsters
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/14/1650231/google-rolls-out-call-screening-ai-to-thwart-phone-fraudsters?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Rolls Out Call Screening AI To Thwart Phone Fraudsters Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has introduced AI-powered scam call detection for Android devices, focusing on real-time analysis of conversation patterns to combat phone fraud. The feature enhances user security without sacrificing privacy, as it…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac Feedly Summary: There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz…
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The Register: Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/microlise_cyberattack/ Source: The Register Title: Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption Feedly Summary: Experts say incident has ‘all the hallmarks of ransomware’ Telematics tech biz Microlise says an attack that hit its network likely did not expose customer data, although staff aren’t so lucky.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…