Tag: 2024
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The Register: AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/ai_hiring_test_bias/ Source: The Register Title: AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews Feedly Summary: Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry’s personal info from HR bots In mock interviews for software engineering jobs, recent AI models that evaluated responses rated men less favorably – particularly those with…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: TextSynth Server
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/textsynth-server/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TextSynth Server Feedly Summary: TextSynth Server I’d missed this: Fabrice Bellard (yes, that Fabrice Bellard) has a project called TextSynth Server which he describes like this: ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steven Johnson
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/steven-johnson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steven Johnson Feedly Summary: When we started working on what became NotebookLM in the summer of 2022, we could fit about 1,500 words in the context window. Now we can fit up to 1.5 million words. (And using various other tricks, effectively fit 25 million words.)…
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Slashdot: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0057206/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details five local privilege escalation vulnerabilities found in the Linux utility “needrestart,” crucial for professionals in security and compliance to recognize, as they highlight significant risks associated with resource…
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The Register: Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/musk_chinese_cyberspies/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator Feedly Summary: Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa A senior US senator has warned that American tech companies’ activities in China represent a national security risk, in a hearing…