Tag: small

  • Cloud Blog: This migration from Snowflake to BigQuery accelerated model building and cut costs in half

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/smarterx-migrating-to-bigquery-from-snowflake-cut-costs-in-half/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: This migration from Snowflake to BigQuery accelerated model building and cut costs in half Feedly Summary: In 2024, retail sales for consumer packaged goods were worth $7.5 trillion globally. Their sheer variety — from cosmetics to clothing, frozen vegetables to vitamins  — is hard to fathom. And distribution…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…

  • Slashdot: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is grappling with ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, primarily attributed to botnets and potential Large Language Model (LLM) scrapers. Despite these challenges, their critical infrastructure…

  • The Register: EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/eu_businesses_push_for_freedom/ Source: The Register Title: EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players Feedly Summary: Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape ‘distant, behemoth corporations’ French AI business Mistral on Thursday announced an initiative called “AI for Citizens,” which it says…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kevin Webb

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/1/kevin-webb/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kevin Webb Feedly Summary: One of the best examples of LLM developer tooling I’ve heard is from a team that supports software from the 80s-90s. Their only source of documentation is video interviews with retired employees. So they feed them into transcription software and get summarized…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/vscode-copilot-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat Feedly Summary: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the extension that provides the chat component of Copilot, but the launch announcement promises…

  • Cloud Blog: Tools Make an Agent: From Zero to Assistant with ADK

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/tools-make-an-agent-from-zero-to-assistant-with-adk/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Tools Make an Agent: From Zero to Assistant with ADK Feedly Summary: Imagine that you’re a project manager at QuantumRoast, a global coffee machine company. You help your teammates navigate a sea of engineering roadmaps, sudden strategy pivots (we’re doing matcha now!), and incoming tickets from customers— everything…

  • Anchore: Time to Take Another Look at Grype: A Year of Major Improvements

    Source URL: https://anchore.com/blog/time-to-take-another-look-at-grype-a-year-of-major-improvements/ Source: Anchore Title: Time to Take Another Look at Grype: A Year of Major Improvements Feedly Summary: If you last tried Grype a year ago and haven’t checked back recently, you’re in for some pleasant surprises. The past twelve months have significantly improved the accuracy and performance of our open source vulnerability…