Tag: token

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: December in LLMs has been a lot

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/december-in-llms-has-been-a-lot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: December in LLMs has been a lot Feedly Summary: I had big plans for December: for one thing, I was hoping to get to an actual RC of Datasette 1.0, in preparation for a full release in January. Instead, I’ve found myself distracted by a constant barrage…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode"

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/gemini-thinking-mode/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash "Thinking mode" Feedly Summary: Those new model releases just keep on flowing. Today it’s Google’s snappily named gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, their first entrant into the o1-style inference scaling class of models. I posted about a great essay about the significance of these just this morning. From…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Welcome to the party, pal!

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/welcome-to-the-party-pal-2/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Welcome to the party, pal! Feedly Summary: In the last newsletter of the year, Thorsten recalls his tech-savvy gift to his family and how we can all incorporate cybersecurity protections this holiday season. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text serves as a discussion on personal…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is AI progress slowing down?

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is AI progress slowing down? Feedly Summary: Is AI progress slowing down? This piece by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor is the single most insightful essay about AI and LLMs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s long and worth reading every inch of it – it…

  • Hacker News: A Replacement for Bert

    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/modernbert Source: Hacker News Title: A Replacement for Bert Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the introduction of ModernBERT, an advanced encoder-only model that surpasses older models like BERT in both performance and efficiency. Boasting an increased context length of 8192 tokens, faster processing…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/exploring-vulnerable-windows-drivers/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers Feedly Summary: This post is the result of research into the real-world application of the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) technique along with Cisco Talos’ series of posts about  malicious Windows drivers. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an…

  • Hacker News: Apple collaborates with Nvidia to research faster LLM performance

    Source URL: https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/18/apple-collaborates-with-nvidia-to-research-faster-llm-performance/ Source: Hacker News Title: Apple collaborates with Nvidia to research faster LLM performance Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) through a new technique called Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter). This approach significantly accelerates text generation,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI WebRTC Audio demo

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/17/openai-webrtc/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI WebRTC Audio demo Feedly Summary: OpenAI WebRTC Audio demo OpenAI announced a bunch of API features today, including a brand new WebRTC API for setting up a two-way audio conversation with their models. They tweeted this opaque code example: async function createRealtimeSession(inStream, outEl, token) { const…

  • Hacker News: OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider

    Source URL: https://openauth.js.org/ Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses OpenAuth, an open-source centralized authentication server designed for easy self-hosting on user infrastructure. Unlike conventional library solutions, OpenAuth is compliant with OAuth 2.0, allowing for integration across various applications. It provides…

  • Rekt: GemPad – Rekt

    Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/gempad-rekt Source: Rekt Title: GemPad – Rekt Feedly Summary: The perfect digital heist – missing reentrancy guards on Gem Pad let an attacker snatch roughly $1.9 million in locked tokens across three chains. Several protocols left wondering if their lock box provider should have checked their own locks first. AI Summary and Description:…