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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

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    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…

  • Hacker News: Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Docs and CEO Emails

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    Source URL: https://21hats.substack.com/p/all-of-a-sudden-joe-blow-can-see Source: Hacker News Title: Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Docs and CEO Emails Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security issue related to Microsoft’s Copilot, an AI-driven tool that inadvertently allows employees to access sensitive corporate information due to lax…

  • The Register: Arm lays down the law with a blueprint to challenge x86’s PC dominance

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/arm_pcbsa_reference_architecture/ Source: The Register Title: Arm lays down the law with a blueprint to challenge x86’s PC dominance Feedly Summary: Now it’s up to OEMs and devs to decide whether they want in Arm has published its PC Base System Architecture (PC-BSA) specification, the blueprint for standardizing Arm-based PCs.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/password-policies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong Feedly Summary: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong Stuart Schechter blames Robert Morris and Ken Thompson for the dire state of passwords today: The story…

  • Wired: The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/us-patent-trademark-office-internally-banned-generative-ai/ Source: Wired Title: The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI Feedly Summary: The agency dedicated to protecting new innovations prohibited almost all internal use of GenAI tools, though employees can still participate in controlled experiments. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The US Patent and Trademark Office…

  • CSA: The Risks of Insecure Third-Party Resources

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/11/18/top-threat-5-third-party-tango-dancing-around-insecure-resources Source: CSA Title: The Risks of Insecure Third-Party Resources Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses key security challenges related to cloud computing, specifically focusing on the fifth top threat: Insecure Third-Party Resources. It highlights the importance of Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) and offers strategies for…

  • Hacker News: Memos – An open source Rewinds / Recall

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    Source URL: https://github.com/arkohut/memos Source: Hacker News Title: Memos – An open source Rewinds / Recall Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes “Memos,” a privacy-centric software tool designed for passive screen recording. Its primary focus is on user data control, ensuring all recording and processing occur locally, which aligns with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/14/openai-public-bug-bounty/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Feedly Summary: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Reading this investigation of the security boundaries of OpenAI’s Code Interpreter environment helped me realize that the rules for OpenAI’s public bug bounty inadvertently double as the missing details for a whole bunch of different aspects of…

  • Hacker News: Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess

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    Source URL: https://dynomight.net/chess/ Source: Hacker News Title: Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses an exploration of how various large language models (LLMs) perform at playing chess, ultimately revealing significant differences in performance across models. Despite enthusiasm about LLMs’ capabilities, the results…