Tag: web

  • Hacker News: Thoughts on a Month with Devin

    Source URL: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-08-devin.html Source: Hacker News Title: Thoughts on a Month with Devin Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an in-depth analysis of an AI-driven programming assistant named Devin, highlighting both its potential and failures in software development tasks. The initial successes in API interactions and documentation are contrasted…

  • The Register: AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/aws_workspaces_upgrades/ Source: The Register Title: AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops Feedly Summary: Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats Amazon Web Services has flicked the switch on a pair of workstation-grade cloud desktops that, ironically, highlight a problem with the…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Find the helpers

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/find-the-helpers/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Find the helpers Feedly Summary: Bill discusses how to find ‘the helpers’ and the importance of knowledge sharing. Plus, there’s a lot to talk about in our latest vulnerability roundup. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This edition of the Threat Source newsletter emphasizes the importance of…

  • The Register: Russia’s Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/russia_star_blizzard_whatsapp/ Source: The Register Title: Russia’s Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts Feedly Summary: FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says Star Blizzard, a prolific phishing crew backed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), conducted a new campaign aiming to compromise WhatsApp accounts and gain access…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting gwern

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/gwern/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting gwern Feedly Summary: […] much of the point of a model like o1 is not to deploy it, but to generate training data for the next model. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1 session…

  • Hacker News: Let’s Encrypt is offering 6-day and IP address certs

    Source URL: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/16/6-day-and-ip-certs/ Source: Hacker News Title: Let’s Encrypt is offering 6-day and IP address certs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of short-lived certificates in the Web PKI ecosystem to enhance security. It emphasizes how these certificates, with lifetimes as short as six days, can mitigate…

  • Alerts: CISA and Partners Release Call to Action to Close the National Software Understanding Gap

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/16/cisa-and-partners-release-call-action-close-national-software-understanding-gap Source: Alerts Title: CISA and Partners Release Call to Action to Close the National Software Understanding Gap Feedly Summary: Today, CISA—in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E), and the National Security Agency (NSA)—published Closing the Software…

  • Cloud Blog: Bitly: Protecting users from malicious links with Web Risk

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/bitly-ensuring-real-time-link-safety-with-web-risk-to-protect-people/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Bitly: Protecting users from malicious links with Web Risk Feedly Summary: Bitly’s partnership with Google Web Risk helps enhance Bitly’s ability to protect users and build trust as they generate millions of links and QR Codes daily.  Over the last decade, Bitly has solidified its reputation as a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Alex Albert

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/alex-albert/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Alex Albert Feedly Summary: We’ve adjusted prompt caching so that you now only need to specify cache write points in your prompts – we’ll automatically check for cache hits at previous positions. No more manual tracking of read locations needed. — Alex Albert, Anthropic Tags: alex-albert,…

  • Hacker News: Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers

    Source URL: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/ Source: Hacker News Title: Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes “Nepenthes,” a tarpit software devised to trap web crawlers, particularly those scraping data for large language models (LLMs). It offers unique functionalities and deployment setups, with explicit…