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  • The Register: Apple warns ‘extremely sophisticated attack’ may be targeting iThings

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/apple_ios_ipados_patches/ Source: The Register Title: Apple warns ‘extremely sophisticated attack’ may be targeting iThings Feedly Summary: Cupertino mostly uses bland language when talking security, so this sounds nasty Apple has warned that some iPhones and iPads may have been targeted by an “extremely sophisticated attack” and has posted patches that hopefully prevent it.……

  • Hacker News: Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171 Source: Hacker News Title: Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel language model architecture that enhances test-time computation through latent reasoning, presenting a new methodology that contrasts with traditional reasoning models. It emphasizes the…

  • Hacker News: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’

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    Source URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/ Source: Hacker News Title: CAPTCHAs: ‘a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study from UC Irvine critically evaluates Google’s reCAPTCHA v2, highlighting its inefficacy in preventing bot traffic while raising significant privacy concerns. The findings indicate that reCAPTCHA…

  • Hacker News: Library Sandboxing for Verona

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    Source URL: https://github.com/microsoft/verona-sandbox Source: Hacker News Title: Library Sandboxing for Verona Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a process-based sandboxing mechanism designed for the Verona programming language, emphasizing security features that aim to maintain safe execution of untrusted libraries. This innovative approach to sandboxing can significantly enhance security in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cerebras brings instant inference to Mistral Le Chat

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/10/cerebras-mistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cerebras brings instant inference to Mistral Le Chat Feedly Summary: Cerebras brings instant inference to Mistral Le Chat Mistral announced a major upgrade to their Le Chat web UI (their version of ChatGPT) a few days ago, and one of the signature features was performance. It turns…

  • The Register: France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/08/uae_france_dc_ai/ Source: The Register Title: France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet Feedly Summary: Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France this week announced plans for a one-gigawatt AI datacenter campus dedicated to advancing development of artificial intelligence.… AI…

  • Hacker News: Bolt: Bootstrap Long Chain-of-Thought in LLMs Without Distillation [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03860 Source: Hacker News Title: Bolt: Bootstrap Long Chain-of-Thought in LLMs Without Distillation [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper introduces BOLT, a method designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by generating long chains of thought (LongCoT) without relying on knowledge distillation. The…

  • Hacker News: Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build SOTA Agent Memory

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    Source URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zep-ai/jobs/e2QxKYu-staff-engineer Source: Hacker News Title: Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build SOTA Agent Memory Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Zep AI, a company focused on enhancing AI agents with advanced memory capabilities through a knowledge graph technology. It outlines an opportunity for a…