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  • 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…

  • Scott Logic: LLMs Don’t Know What They Don’t Know—And That’s a Problem

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/03/06/llms-dont-know-what-they-dont-know-and-thats-a-problem.html Source: Scott Logic Title: LLMs Don’t Know What They Don’t Know—And That’s a Problem Feedly Summary: LLMs are not just limited by hallucinations—they fundamentally lack awareness of their own capabilities, making them overconfident in executing tasks they don’t fully understand. While “vibe coding” embraces AI’s ability to generate quick solutions, true progress…

  • Slashdot: Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues?

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/03/0654205/can-trapc-fix-c-and-c-memory-safety-issues?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The development of TrapC, a fork of the C programming language, aims to address longstanding memory safety issues associated with C and C++. The introduction of a cybersecurity-centric compiler, trapc, enhances security…

  • Hacker News: SWE-Lancer: a benchmark of freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12115 Source: Hacker News Title: SWE-Lancer: a benchmark of freelance software engineering tasks from Upwork Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces SWE-Lancer, a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models’ capability in performing freelance software engineering tasks. It is relevant for AI and software security professionals as…

  • Alerts: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/12/cisa-and-fbi-warn-malicious-cyber-actors-using-buffer-overflow-vulnerabilities-compromise-software Source: Alerts Title: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software Feedly Summary: CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Secure by Design Alert, Eliminating Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as part of their cooperative Secure by Design Alert series—an ongoing series aimed…

  • Hacker News: Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs

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    Source URL: https://n0rdy.foo/posts/20250121/okta-bcrypt-lessons-for-better-apis/ Source: Hacker News Title: Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security incident involving Okta and the vulnerabilities associated with the Bcrypt hashing algorithm when utilized improperly. It highlights how the lack of input validation in some cryptographic…

  • Irrational Exuberance: Our own agents with their own tools.

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    Source URL: https://lethain.com/our-own-agents-our-own-tools/ Source: Irrational Exuberance Title: Our own agents with their own tools. Feedly Summary: Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I…

  • Hacker News: Solving key challenges in AI-assisted code reviews

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    Source URL: https://www.qodo.ai/blog/qodo-merge-solving-key-challenges-in-ai-assisted-code-reviews/ Source: Hacker News Title: Solving key challenges in AI-assisted code reviews Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text introduces Qodo Merge, an AI-driven code review tool that automates various aspects of the code review process. It highlights new features aimed at optimizing feedback relevance, ensuring compliance with project…

  • Hacker News: Two Programming-with-AI Approaches

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    Source URL: https://everything.intellectronica.net/p/two-programming-with-ai-approaches Source: Hacker News Title: Two Programming-with-AI Approaches Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses two primary approaches to using AI in programming: dialog programming with AI assistants and commanding an AI programmer for automated code generation. The author highlights the advantages and risks associated with each approach,…