Tag: security implications

  • Wired: Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/linkedin-ai-generated-influencers/ Source: Wired Title: Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated Feedly Summary: A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, indicating the platform’s embrace of AI tools has been a success. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the prevalence…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/leaked-system-prompts-from-vercel-v0/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0 Feedly Summary: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0 v0 is Vercel’s entry in the increasingly crowded LLM-assisted development market – chat with a bot and have that bot build a full application for you. They’ve been iterating on it since launching…

  • Hacker News: Open-interpreter: A natural language interface for computers

    Source URL: https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/open-interpreter Source: Hacker News Title: Open-interpreter: A natural language interface for computers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents an in-depth overview of Open Interpreter, a tool that allows local execution of code with a language model interface, overcoming limitations of cloud-based alternatives like OpenAI’s Code Interpreter. This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…

  • Wired: Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/andrew-tate-hack-undersea-cable-cut-iphone-graykey-salt-typhoon/ Source: Wired Title: Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked Feedly Summary: Plus: The worst telecom hack in US history rolls on, iPhones are harder to break into, and more of the week’s top security news. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details significant security and privacy concerns, including the tracking…

  • The Register: ‘Alarming’ bugs lay low in Ubuntu Server utility for 10 years

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/qualys_ubuntu_server_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Alarming’ bugs lay low in Ubuntu Server utility for 10 years Feedly Summary: Update now: Qualys says vulnerabilities give root and are ‘easily exploitable’ Researchers at Qualys refuse to release exploit code for five bugs in Ubuntu Server’s needrestart utility that allow unprivileged attackers to gain root access…

  • 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…

  • Slashdot: DeepSeek’s First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/20/2129207/deepseeks-first-reasoning-model-r1-lite-preview-beats-openai-o1-performance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepSeek’s First Reasoning Model R1-Lite-Preview Beats OpenAI o1 Performance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: DeepSeek, a Chinese AI offshoot, has released a new reasoning-focused large language model, the R1-Lite-Preview, via its AI chatbot. This model demonstrates advanced reasoning capabilities and transparency in its processing, drawing attention…

  • The Register: D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/dlink_rip_replace_router/ Source: The Register Title: D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify Feedly Summary: Vendor offers 20% discount on new model, but not patches Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure of a…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Malicious QR codes

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/malicious_qr_codes/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Malicious QR codes Feedly Summary: QR codes are disproportionately effective at bypassing most anti-spam filters, as most filters are not designed to recognize that a QR code is present in an image and decode the QR code. According to Talos’ data, roughly 60% of all email containing…