Tag: Arch

  • Slashdot: DataBreach.com Emerges As Alternative To HaveIBeenPwned

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/07/0620237/databreachcom-emerges-as-alternative-to-haveibeenpwned?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DataBreach.com Emerges As Alternative To HaveIBeenPwned Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: DataBreach.com, a new service from Atlas Privacy, enables users to check if their personal information has been leaked, offering a more extensive search than Have I Been Pwned. It emphasizes privacy by performing checks locally…

  • Hacker News: Evaluating the World Model Implicit in a Generative Model

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03689 Source: Hacker News Title: Evaluating the World Model Implicit in a Generative Model Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This paper delves into the evaluation of world models implicitly learned by generative models, particularly large language models (LLMs). It highlights the potential limitations and fragilities of these models in…

  • The Register: Cybercrooks are targeting Bengal cat lovers in Australia for some reason

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/bengal_cat_australia/ Source: The Register Title: Cybercrooks are targeting Bengal cat lovers in Australia for some reason Feedly Summary: In case today’s news cycle wasn’t shocking enough, here’s a gem from Sophos Fresh from a series of serious reports detailing its five-year battle with Chinese cyberattackers, Sophos has dropped a curious story about users…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: yet-another-applied-llm-benchmark

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/6/yet-another-applied-llm-benchmark/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: yet-another-applied-llm-benchmark Feedly Summary: yet-another-applied-llm-benchmark Nicholas Carlini introduced this personal LLM benchmark suite back in February as a collection of over 100 automated tests he runs against new LLM models to evaluate their performance against the kinds of tasks he uses them for. There are two defining features…

  • Hacker News: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

    Source URL: https://www.recall.ai/post/how-websockets-cost-us-1m-on-our-aws-bill Source: Hacker News Title: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an in-depth analysis of optimizing inter-process communication (IPC) in a cloud computing environment, particularly within AWS, leading to significant cost reduction. It highlights the inefficiencies of using WebSockets…

  • Wired: Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-election-tracking/ Source: Wired Title: Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back Feedly Summary: The controversial AI search engine, accused of aggressively scraping content, went all in on providing AI-generated election information. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Perplexity, an AI search engine that recently launched…

  • The Register: Thanks Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/torvalds_patch_linux_performance/ Source: The Register Title: Thanks Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6% Feedly Summary: 21 lines that show the big man still has what it takes A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux’s multithreaded performance.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Cloud Blog: (In)tuned to Takeovers: Abusing Intune Permissions for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation in Entra ID Native Environments

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/abusing-intune-permissions-entra-id-environments/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: (In)tuned to Takeovers: Abusing Intune Permissions for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation in Entra ID Native Environments Feedly Summary: Written by: Thibault Van Geluwe de Berlaere, Karl Madden, Corné de Jong The Mandiant Red Team recently supported a client to visualize the possible impact of a compromise by…

  • Schneier on Security: IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/iot-devices-in-password-spraying-botnet.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet Feedly Summary: Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed password-guessing attack: “Any threat actor…

  • Hacker News: Storybits: Error Resistant Mnemonics

    Source URL: https://rya.nc/storybits.html Source: Hacker News Title: Storybits: Error Resistant Mnemonics Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a project named “Storybits,” a mnemonic system designed to transform binary data into memorable word combinations. It emphasizes the challenges of remembering binary data compared to a word-based mnemonic approach. The system…