Tag: Alexa

  • CSA: CSA Interview: Nerding Out with CISO Alexander Getsin

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/11/21/csa-community-spotlight-nerding-out-about-security-with-ciso-alexander-getsin Source: CSA Title: CSA Interview: Nerding Out with CISO Alexander Getsin Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) highlights its 15 years of impactful research in cloud security, involvement of key cybersecurity personnel, and future ambitions to incorporate AI security into its mandate. This is significant…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/14/releasing-the-largest-multilingual-open-pretraining-dataset/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset Feedly Summary: Releasing the largest multilingual open pretraining dataset Common Corpus is a new “open and permissible licensed text dataset, comprising over 2 trillion tokens (2,003,039,184,047 tokens)" released by French AI Lab PleIAs. This appears to be the largest available…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/13/ollama-llama-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision Feedly Summary: Ollama: Llama 3.2 Vision Ollama released version 0.4 last week with support for Meta’s first Llama vision model, Llama 3.2. If you have Ollama installed you can fetch the 11B model (7.9 GB) like this: ollama pull llama3.2-vision Or the larger…

  • The Register: Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume Feedly Summary: Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn’t over,…

  • Wired: Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/connor-moucka-snowflake-hack-arrest-extradition/ Source: Wired Title: Man Arrested for Snowflake Hacking Spree Faces US Extradition Feedly Summary: Alexander “Connor” Moucka was arrested this week by Canadian authorities for allegedly carrying out a series of hacks that targeted Snowflake’s cloud customers. His next stop may be a US jail. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude API: PDF support (beta)

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/1/claude-api-pdf-support-beta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude API: PDF support (beta) Feedly Summary: Claude API: PDF support (beta) Claude 3.5 Sonnet now accepts PDFs as attachments: The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet (claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022) model now supports PDF input and understands both text and visual content within documents. I just released llm-claude-3 0.7 with support…

  • Slashdot: Amazon Delays AI-Powered Alexa Upgrade Amid Technical Challenges

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/10/31/1250208/amazon-delays-ai-powered-alexa-upgrade-amid-technical-challenges?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon Delays AI-Powered Alexa Upgrade Amid Technical Challenges Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Amazon’s decision to delay the rollout of its AI-enhanced Alexa voice assistant to 2025 highlights substantial challenges in upgrading its existing architecture. This postponement is particularly relevant in the context of AI advancements…

  • Cloud Blog: C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/try-c4a-the-first-google-axion-processor/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU Feedly Summary: At Google Next ‘24, we announced Google Axion Processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs designed for the data center. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic: Message Batches (beta)

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/8/anthropic-batch-mode/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic: Message Batches (beta) Feedly Summary: Anthropic: Message Batches (beta) Anthropic now have a batch mode, allowing you to send prompts to Claude in batches which will be processed within 24 hours (though probably much faster than that) and come at a 50% price discount. This matches…