Tag: Sim

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/start-building-with-gemini-25-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Feedly Summary: Start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Gemini’s latest model is Gemini 2.5 Flash, available in (paid) preview as gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17. Building upon the popular foundation of 2.0 Flash, this new version delivers a major upgrade in reasoning capabilities, while…

Cisco Talos Blog: Care what you share

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/care-what-you-share/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Care what you share Feedly Summary: In this week’s newsletter, Thorsten muses on how search engines and AI quietly gather your data while trying to influence your buying choices. Explore privacy-friendly alternatives and get the scoop on why it’s important to question the platforms you interact with…

Slashdot: Meta Blocks Apple Intelligence in iOS Apps

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1539231/meta-blocks-apple-intelligence-in-ios-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Blocks Apple Intelligence in iOS Apps Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s recent decision to disable Apple Intelligence features across its iOS applications highlights ongoing tensions between tech giants over privacy and service integration. This move is seen as a strategic shift towards promoting Meta’s…

Rekt: KiloEx – Rekt

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Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/kiloex-rekt Source: Rekt Title: KiloEx – Rekt Feedly Summary: Oracle manipulation 101 – check your damn validation. KiloEx lost almost $7.5 million when their MinimalForwarder contract accepted any forged signature without verification. The attack hit Base, BNB Chain, opBNB, Taiko, and Manta simultaneously. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ted Sanders, OpenAI

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/ted-sanders/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ted Sanders, OpenAI Feedly Summary: Our hypothesis is that o4-mini is a much better model, but we’ll wait to hear feedback from developers. Evals only tell part of the story, and we wouldn’t want to prematurely deprecate a model that developers continue to find value in.…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Betker

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/james-betker/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Betker Feedly Summary: I work for OpenAI. […] o4-mini is actually a considerably better vision model than o3, despite the benchmarks. Similar to how o3-mini-high was a much better coding model than o1. I would recommend using o4-mini-high over o3 for any task involving vision.…

Unit 42: Cascading Shadows: An Attack Chain Approach to Avoid Detection and Complicate Analysis

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Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/phishing-campaign-with-complex-attack-chain/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Cascading Shadows: An Attack Chain Approach to Avoid Detection and Complicate Analysis Feedly Summary: Agent Tesla, Remcos RAT and XLoader delivered via a complex phishing campaign. Learn how attackers are using multi-stage delivery to hinder analysis. The post Cascading Shadows: An Attack Chain Approach to Avoid Detection and…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/introducing-openai-o3-and-o4-mini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini Feedly Summary: Introducing OpenAI o3 and o4-mini OpenAI are really emphasizing tool use with these: For the first time, our reasoning models can agentically use and combine every tool within ChatGPT—this includes searching the web, analyzing uploaded files and other data with…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: openai/codex

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