Tag: uncertainty

  • Slashdot: McKinsey Wonders How To Sell AI Apps With No Measurable Benefits

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/1132230/mckinsey-wonders-how-to-sell-ai-apps-with-no-measurable-benefits?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: McKinsey Wonders How To Sell AI Apps With No Measurable Benefits Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges faced by software vendors in monetizing AI effectively, as highlighted by a McKinsey & Company report. It emphasizes issues like inflated costs, the struggle to…

  • Slashdot: Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/2027237/google-confirms-android-dev-verification-will-have-free-and-paid-tiers-no-public-list-of-devs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Confirms Android Dev Verification Will Have Free and Paid Tiers, No Public List of Devs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Google’s upcoming changes in Android 16 regarding app installation and verification, underscoring increased reliance on cloud-based processes and potential costs for developers.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta”

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/26/how-to-stop-ais-lethal-trifecta/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta” Feedly Summary: How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta” This is the second mention of the lethal trifecta in the Economist in just the last week! Their earlier coverage was Why AI systems may never be secure on September 22nd – I…

  • The Register: DARPA amps up effort to make AI power-conscious

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/dapra_ai_power_conscious/ Source: The Register Title: DARPA amps up effort to make AI power-conscious Feedly Summary: New research program seeks ‘energy-aware’ ML that balances performance with power draw It’s notoriously difficult to consistently measure the energy usage of AI models, but DARPA wants to put an end to that uncertainty with new “energy-aware" machine…

  • The Register: User group says SAP’s licensing models make cloud migration harder

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/sap_licensing_criticised_by_dsag_group/ Source: The Register Title: User group says SAP’s licensing models make cloud migration harder Feedly Summary: DSAG criticizes separate regimes for public, private cloud, says users need more time to upgrade in uncertain times SAP’s German-speaking user group has warned that the enterprise software giant’s current licensing regime is creating unwanted difficulties…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Says Models Programmed To Make Stuff Up Instead of Admitting Ignorance

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/17/1724241/openai-says-models-programmed-to-make-stuff-up-instead-of-admitting-ignorance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Says Models Programmed To Make Stuff Up Instead of Admitting Ignorance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s acknowledgment of the issue of “hallucinations” in AI models, specifically how these models frequently yield false outputs due to a training bias that rewards generating…

  • Docker: Docker Acquisition of MCP Defender Helps Meet Challenges of Securing the Agentic Future

    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-acquires-mcp-defender-ai-agent-security/ Source: Docker Title: Docker Acquisition of MCP Defender Helps Meet Challenges of Securing the Agentic Future Feedly Summary: Docker, Inc.®, a provider of cloud-native and AI-native development tools, infrastructure, and services, today announced the acquisition of MCP Defender, a company founded to secure AI applications. The rapid evolution of AI-from simple generative…

  • The Register: EU court’s dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates’ ire

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/eu_us_data_challenge/ Source: The Register Title: EU court’s dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates’ ire Feedly Summary: Now you’ve gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he’s working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework…

  • Schneier on Security: Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/encryption-backdoor-in-military-police-radios.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios Feedly Summary: I wrote about this in 2023. Here’s the story: Three Dutch security analysts discovered the vulnerabilities­—five in total—­in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and others. The…

  • Shabie’s blog: Agents are search over action space

    Source URL: https://shabie.github.io/2025/08/18/agents-are-search-over-action-space.html Source: Shabie’s blog Title: Agents are search over action space Feedly Summary: It’s no secret that today’s LLM-based agents are unreliable. This makes them a gamble for most critical tasks, so where can they be safely applied? The answer lies in finding asymmetry: we should use them in domains where the downside…