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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Maybe Meta’s Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/llama-eu-ai-act/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Maybe Meta’s Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act Feedly Summary: I encountered a theory a while ago that one of the reasons Meta insist on using the term “open source” for their Llama models despite the Llama license not actually conforming…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemma 3 QAT Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/gemma-3-qat-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemma 3 QAT Models Feedly Summary: Gemma 3 QAT Models Interesting release from Google, as a follow-up to Gemma 3 from last month: To make Gemma 3 even more accessible, we are announcing new versions optimized with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) that dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/18/2323216/openai-puzzled-as-new-models-show-rising-hallucination-rates Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recent AI models, o3 and o4-mini, display increased hallucination rates compared to previous iterations. This raises concerns regarding the reliability of such AI systems in practical applications. The findings emphasize the…

  • Wired: DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/ Source: Wired Title: DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants Feedly Summary: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the aggregation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Ng

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/andrew-ng/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Ng Feedly Summary: To me, a successful eval meets the following criteria. Say, we currently have system A, and we might tweak it to get a system B: If A works significantly better than B according to a skilled human judge, the eval should give…

  • CSA: Defending Against SSRF Attacks in Cloud Native Apps

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    Source URL: https://www.sweet.security/blog/defending-against-ssrf-attacks-in-cloud-native-applications Source: CSA Title: Defending Against SSRF Attacks in Cloud Native Apps Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the increasing prevalence of Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks, particularly in cloud environments, as exemplified by a real incident involving a Fintech customer of Sweet Security. It emphasizes the limitations…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: MCP Run Python

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/mcp-run-python/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: MCP Run Python Feedly Summary: MCP Run Python Pydantic AI’s MCP server for running LLM-generated Python code in a sandbox. They ended up using a trick I explored two years ago: using a Deno process to run Pyodide in a WebAssembly sandbox. Here’s a bit of a…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft’s Secure by Design journey: One year of success

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/17/microsofts-secure-by-design-journey-one-year-of-success/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Microsoft’s Secure by Design journey: One year of success Feedly Summary: Read about the initiatives Microsoft has undertaken over the past 18 months to support secure by design, secure by default, and secure in operations objectives as part of our SFI Initiative. The post Microsoft’s Secure by…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-27-security-announcements-next-25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25 Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey reviews our top 27 security announcements from Next ‘25.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted…