Tag: tokens

  • The Register: Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/prometheus_servers_exporters_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: Are your Prometheus servers and exporters secure? Probably not Feedly Summary: Plus: Netscaler brute force barrage; BeyondTrust API key stolen; and more Infosec in brief There’s a problem of titanic proportions brewing for users of the Prometheus open source monitoring toolkit: hundreds of thousands of servers and exporters…

  • The Register: Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/speculative_decoding/ Source: The Register Title: Cheat codes for LLM performance: An introduction to speculative decoding Feedly Summary: Sometimes two models really are faster than one Hands on When it comes to AI inferencing, the faster you can generate a response, the better – and over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a number…

  • Cloud Blog: Tailor your search engine with AI-powered hybrid search in Spanner

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/hybrid-search-in-spanner-combine-full-text-and-vector-search/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Tailor your search engine with AI-powered hybrid search in Spanner Feedly Summary: Search is at the heart of how we interact with the digital ecosystem, from online shopping to finding critical information. Enter generative AI, and user expectations are higher than ever. For applications to meet diverse user…

  • Schneier on Security: Ultralytics Supply-Chain Attack

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/ultralytics-supply-chain-attack.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Ultralytics Supply-Chain Attack Feedly Summary: Last week, we saw a supply-chain attack against the Ultralytics AI library on GitHub. A quick summary: On December 4, a malicious version 8.3.41 of the popular AI library ultralytics ­—which has almost 60 million downloads—was published to the Python Package Index…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-tpu-is-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing the general availability of Trillium, our sixth-generation TPU Feedly Summary: The rise of large-scale AI models capable of processing diverse modalities like text and images presents a unique infrastructural challenge. These models require immense computational power and specialized hardware to efficiently handle training, fine-tuning, and inference. Over…

  • Hacker News: Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769 Source: Hacker News Title: Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces a novel approach for enhancing reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) through a technique called Coconut, which utilizes a continuous latent space for reasoning rather than…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/llama-33-70b/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Feedly Summary: Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt GPT-3 class run on…

  • Hacker News: Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability

    Source URL: https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/12/06/zizmor-ultralytics-injection Source: Hacker News Title: Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes a security incident involving the compromise of the Ultralytics machine learning package, which led to the release of malicious software via multiple versions uploaded to PyPI. The root…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Meta AI release Llama 3.3

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/llama-33/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Meta AI release Llama 3.3 Feedly Summary: Meta AI release Llama 3.3 This new Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct model from Meta AI makes some bold claims: This model delivers similar performance to Llama 3.1 405B with cost effective inference that’s feasible to run locally on common developer workstations. I have…