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  • Slashdot: Apple’s Upgraded AI Models Underwhelm On Performance

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/1646256/apples-upgraded-ai-models-underwhelm-on-performance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple’s Upgraded AI Models Underwhelm On Performance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the performance of Apple’s recent AI models in comparison to competitors, revealing that they lag behind those from Google, Alibaba, OpenAI, and Meta. This assessment has implications for the company’s position…

  • The Register: Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/apple_tries_to_contain_itself/ Source: The Register Title: Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS Feedly Summary: Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and security Apple on Monday unveiled an open source containerization framework for creating and running Linux container images on the Mac.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/9/david-crawshaw/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: The process of learning and experimenting with LLM-derived technology has been an exercise in humility. In general I love learning new things when the art of programming changes […] But LLMs, and more specifically Agents, affect the process of writing programs in…

  • Gemini: Advanced audio dialog and generation with Gemini 2.5

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    Source URL: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-2-5-native-audio/ Source: Gemini Title: Advanced audio dialog and generation with Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 has new capabilities in AI-powered audio dialog and generation. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Gemini 2.5 introduces advanced capabilities in AI-powered audio dialogue and generation, highlighting innovations in generative AI technology that can enhance user interactions…

  • Schneier on Security: New Linux Vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/new-linux-vulnerabilities.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: New Linux Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: They’re interesting: Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like Apport and systemd-coredump are designed to handle crash reporting and core dumps in Linux…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kenton Varda

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/kenton-varda/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kenton Varda Feedly Summary: It took me a few days to build the library [cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider] with AI. I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. That said, this is a pretty ideal use case: implementing a well-known standard on…

  • The Register: ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about ‘sophisticated’ nation-state hack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/connectwise_compromised_by_sophisticated_government/ Source: The Register Title: ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about ‘sophisticated’ nation-state hack Feedly Summary: Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a “sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.… AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-mistral 0.14

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-mistral-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-mistral 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-mistral 0.14 I added tool-support to my plugin for accessing the Mistral API from LLM today, plus support for Mistral’s new Codestral Embed embedding model. An interesting challenge here is that I’m not using an official client library for llm-mistral – I rolled…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI-assisted development needs automated tests

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/automated-tests/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI-assisted development needs automated tests Feedly Summary: I wonder if one of the reasons I’m finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of people that I see in online discussions is that effectively all of the code I work on has automated tests.…