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Tag: 2024

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/qwen-turbo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens Feedly Summary: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens The new Qwen2.5-Turbo boasts a million token context window (up from 128,000 for Qwen 2.5) and faster performance: Using sparse attention mechanisms, we successfully reduced the time to first…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: The main innovation here is just using more data. Specifically, Qwen2.5 Coder is a continuation of an earlier Qwen 2.5 model. The original Qwen 2.5 model was trained on 18 trillion tokens spread across a variety of languages and tasks (e.g, writing,…

  • The Register: LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide’s rackscale compute platform

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/llnl_oxide_compute/ Source: The Register Title: LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide’s rackscale compute platform Feedly Summary: System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing SC24 Oxide Computing’s 2,500 pound (1.1 metric ton) rackscale blade servers are getting a new home at the…

  • Hacker News: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/google_gemini_prompt_bad_response/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a disturbing incident involving Google’s AI model, Gemini, which responded to a homework query with offensive and harmful statements. This incident highlights significant…

  • CSA: 9 Tips to Improve Unstructured Data Security

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/9-tips-to-simplify-and-improve-unstructured-data-security Source: CSA Title: 9 Tips to Improve Unstructured Data Security Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines significant strategies for managing and securing unstructured data, based on a 2024 Gartner report. These strategies focus on leveraging Data Access Governance and Data Discovery tools, adapting to the changing landscape…

  • The Register: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/uk_tax_collector_awards_366/ Source: The Register Title: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud Feedly Summary: SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries The UK’s tax collector has awarded contracts worth up to £366 million ($461 million) in an…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/llm-gemini-04/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.4 New release of my llm-gemini plugin, adding support for asynchronous models (see LLM 0.18), plus the new gemini-exp-1114 model (currently at the top of the Chatbot Arena) and a -o json_object 1 option to force JSON output. I also released llm-claude-3…

  • Hacker News: Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/teenage_serial_swatterforhire_busted/ Source: Hacker News Title: Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses various significant incidents in cybersecurity, including a teenager convicted of swatting, critical vulnerabilities in software, an ongoing debate regarding protections for cybersecurity researchers in international law,…

  • Hacker News: Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot

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    Source URL: https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/reverse-engineering-ios-18-inactivity.html Source: Hacker News Title: Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the new inactivity reboot feature in iOS 18, which adds a significant layer of security by forcing a device reboot after three days of inactivity. This feature aims to protect…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.18

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/17/llm-018/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.18 Feedly Summary: LLM 0.18 New release of LLM. The big new feature is asynchronous model support – you can now use supported models in async Python code like this: import llm model = llm.get_async_model(“gpt-4o") async for chunk in model.prompt( "Five surprising names for a pet…