Tag: systems

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/developer_server_kill_switch/ Source: The Register Title: Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when he was let go Feedly Summary: IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes A federal jury in Cleveland has found a senior software developer guilty of sabotaging his employer’s systems – and he’s now facing a potential…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/gemini-embeddings/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Feedly Summary: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Gemini just released their new text embedding model, with the snappy name gemini-embedding-exp-03-07. It supports 8,000 input tokens – up from 3,000 – and outputs vectors that are a lot larger…

Hacker News: Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills

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Source URL: https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/study-large-language-models-still-lack-general-reasoning-skills Source: Hacker News Title: Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses research findings on the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4. It highlights the limitations of these models in understanding and solving complex analogy puzzles…

The Register: Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/axiom_space_and_red_hat/ Source: The Register Title: Axiom Space and Red Hat to take edge computing into orbit Feedly Summary: To boldly go where HPE and Raspberry Pi have been for a while Axiom Space plans to send a shoebox-sized node running Red Hat Device Edge to the International Space Station (ISS).… AI Summary and…

Hacker News: Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools

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Source URL: https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global Source: Hacker News Title: Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a disinformation network, “Pravda,” that is manipulating AI chatbots by flooding them with false narratives and propaganda, resulting in a significant percentage of chatbot outputs containing disinformation.…

Hacker News: Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents

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Source URL: https://www.reflection.ai/superintelligence/ Source: Hacker News Title: Reflection – AlphaGo / Gemini team building superintelligent coding agents Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes Reflection, an AI company focused on developing superintelligent autonomous systems, emphasizing their historical foundations in reinforcement learning and large language models. Their strategy revolves around creating…

Slashdot: US Likely To Ban Chinese App DeepSeek From Government Devices

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/07/1616237/us-likely-to-ban-chinese-app-deepseek-from-government-devices Source: Slashdot Title: US Likely To Ban Chinese App DeepSeek From Government Devices Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The White House is contemplating restrictions on the Chinese AI company DeepSeek, primarily over concerns about national security and user data privacy. Key measures may include banning its chatbot from government…

The Register: Cheap ‘n’ simple sign trickery will bamboozle self-driving cars, fresh research claims

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/lowcost_malicious_attacks_on_selfdriving/ Source: The Register Title: Cheap ‘n’ simple sign trickery will bamboozle self-driving cars, fresh research claims Feedly Summary: Now that’s sticker shock Eggheads have taken a look at previously developed techniques that can be used to trick self-driving cars into doing the wrong thing – and found cheap stickers stuck on stop…

Unit 42: Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in a SCADA System

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