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  • Hacker News: Rust: Doubling Throughput with Continuous Profiling and Optimization

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    Source URL: https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/02/11/doubling-throughput-with-continuous-profiling-and-optimization Source: Hacker News Title: Rust: Doubling Throughput with Continuous Profiling and Optimization Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how S2, a serverless API for streaming data, optimized its cloud infrastructure performance and reduced operational costs through the implementation of continuous profiling with Polar Signals Cloud. This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/building-a-snap-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Feedly Summary: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps). This is a domain which existing models…

  • The Register: Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren’t buying it – yet

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/ai_copilot_pc_sales/ Source: The Register Title: Copilot+ PCs? Customers just aren’t buying it – yet Feedly Summary: 57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren’t helping There remains little love for notebooks containing AI-capable processors and even less for Microsoft’s Copilot+ models, with premium pricing, software compatibility, and opaque benefits cited as the…

  • Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2  Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

  • Hacker News: Running DeepSeek R1 Models Locally on NPU

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    Source URL: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/01/29/running-distilled-deepseek-r1-models-locally-on-copilot-pcs-powered-by-windows-copilot-runtime/ Source: Hacker News Title: Running DeepSeek R1 Models Locally on NPU Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses advancements in AI deployment on Copilot+ PCs, focusing on the release of NPU-optimized DeepSeek models for local AI application development. It highlights how these innovations, particularly through the use…

  • Hacker News: Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the Big Deal?

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    Source URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/01/scalable-oltp-in-cloud-whats-big-deal.html Source: Hacker News Title: Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the Big Deal? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a paper by Pat Helland, which explores the scalability limits of cloud OLTP systems and emphasizes the joint responsibility of the database and application in achieving effective…

  • Cloud Blog: ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/scatterbrain-unmasking-poisonplug-obfuscator/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator Feedly Summary: Written by: Nino Isakovic Introduction Since 2022, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking multiple cyber espionage operations conducted by China-nexus actors utilizing POISONPLUG.SHADOW. These operations employ a custom obfuscating compiler that we refer to as “ScatterBrain," facilitating…