Tag: uv

  • The Register: Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/07/elon_election_spending/ Source: The Register Title: Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump Feedly Summary: Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Musk’s war on OpenAI Elon Musk gave more than $270 million to political groups supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and others on the American right, according…

  • The Register: Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/musk_openai_injunction/ Source: The Register Title: Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company Feedly Summary: Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busy Elon Musk has filed for an injunction against OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, broadly designed to prevent the GenAI poster child…

  • The Register: Russia arrests one of its own – a cybercrime suspect on FBI’s most wanted list

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/russia_ransomware_arrest/ Source: The Register Title: Russia arrests one of its own – a cybercrime suspect on FBI’s most wanted list Feedly Summary: The latest in an unusual change of fortune for group once protected by the Kremlin An alleged former affiliate of the LockBit and Babuk ransomware operations, who also just happens to…

  • Slashdot: Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/30/0014255/google-offered-millions-to-ally-itself-with-trade-body-fighting-microsoft?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Offered Millions To Ally Itself With Trade Body Fighting Microsoft Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google Cloud is reportedly attempting to form alliances within the European cloud provider community by offering significant financial incentives to the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE). This move,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/28/smolvlm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model Feedly Summary: SmolVLM – small yet mighty Vision Language Model I’ve been having fun playing with this new vision model from the Hugging Face team behind SmolLM. They describe it as: […] a 2B VLM, SOTA for its memory…

  • Hacker News: The Crime Messenger

    Source URL: https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/the-crime-messenger Source: Hacker News Title: The Crime Messenger Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the rise and fall of Sky Global’s encrypted phone service, Sky ECC, which was widely adopted by criminals for secure communications. Law enforcement agencies, particularly in Europe, successfully intercepted and decrypted the communications,…

  • Slashdot: US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/0332203/us-to-reportedly-sanction-200-more-chinese-chip-firms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. government’s imposition of sanctions on Chinese chipmakers is a strategic move aimed at curtailing China’s semiconductor and AI capabilities. This focus on restricting technology exports, including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM),…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Ending ransomware starts with more reporting

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-ransomware-cyber-insurance-reporting/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: Ending ransomware starts with more reporting Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2024. Today, Monica Shokrai, head of business risk and insurance, Google Cloud, and Kimberly Goody, cybercrime analysis lead, Google Threat Intelligence Group, explore the role cyber-insurance can play…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: open-interpreter

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/open-interpreter/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: open-interpreter Feedly Summary: open-interpreter This “natural language interface for computers" project has been around for a while, but today I finally got around to trying it out. Here’s how I ran it (without first installing anything) using uv: uvx –from open-interpreter interpreter The default mode asks you…

  • Hacker News: Bayesian Neural Networks

    Source URL: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/distill_bayes_net/public/ Source: Hacker News Title: Bayesian Neural Networks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) and their ability to mitigate overfitting and provide uncertainty estimates in predictions. It contrasts standard neural networks, which are flexible yet prone to overfitting, with BNNs that utilize Bayesian…