Tag: code

  • Google Online Security Blog: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the exploitation of spatial memory safety vulnerabilities in C++ code, representing a significant security risk. Google’s initiative to enhance memory safety through the implementation…

  • Hacker News: FBDetect: Catching Tiny Performance Regressions at Hyperscale [pdf]

    Source URL: https://tangchq74.github.io/FBDetect-SOSP24.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: FBDetect: Catching Tiny Performance Regressions at Hyperscale [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The provided text details the FBDetect system developed by Meta for identifying and managing tiny performance regressions in production environments. FBDetect achieves this by monitoring numerous time series data across vast…

  • The Register: Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/microsoft_power_pages_misconfigurations/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft Power Pages misconfigurations exposing sensitive data Feedly Summary: NHS supplier that leaked employee info fell victim to fiddly access controls that can leave databases dangling online Private businesses and public-sector organizations are unwittingly exposing millions of people’s sensitive information to the public internet because they misconfigure Microsoft’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Recraft V3

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/15/recraft-v3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Recraft V3 Feedly Summary: Recraft V3 Recraft are a generative AI design tool startup based out of London who released their v3 model a few weeks ago. It’s currently sat at the top of the Artificial Analysis Image Arena Leaderboard, beating Midjourney and Flux 1.1 pro. The…

  • Hacker News: Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices

    Source URL: https://nexa.ai/blogs/[object Object] Source: Hacker News Title: Omnivision-968M: Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** OmniVision is an advanced multimodal model designed for effective processing of visual and textual inputs on edge devices. It improves upon the LLaVA architecture by reducing image…

  • Hacker News: New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm

    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/new-apple-security-feature-reboots-iphones-after-3-days-researchers-confirm/ Source: Hacker News Title: New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple’s new iPhone software introduces a significant security feature, the “inactivity reboot,” which automatically restarts the device after 72 hours of inactivity. This enhances the device’s security by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/14/openai-public-bug-bounty/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Feedly Summary: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Reading this investigation of the security boundaries of OpenAI’s Code Interpreter environment helped me realize that the rules for OpenAI’s public bug bounty inadvertently double as the missing details for a whole bunch of different aspects of…

  • Hacker News: Implementing Signal’s Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)

    Source URL: https://nfil.dev/coding/encryption/python/double-ratchet-example/ Source: Hacker News Title: Implementing Signal’s Double Ratchet algorithm (2020) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed exposition of the Double Ratchet algorithm and its implementation, emphasizing its benefits for end-to-end encryption (E2E) in securing communications. It highlights the algorithm’s key features such as forward…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT For macOS Now Works With Third-Party Apps, Including Apple’s Xcode

    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/11/14/2129230/chatgpt-for-macos-now-works-with-third-party-apps-including-apples-xcode?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT For macOS Now Works With Third-Party Apps, Including Apple’s Xcode Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recent update to the ChatGPT app for macOS introduces significant enhancements by integrating with third-party developer tools, facilitating improved code interaction and suggestions. This development has notable implications for…

  • The Register: Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/fortinet_vpn_authentication_bypass_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost Feedly Summary: Plus a bonus hard-coded local API key A now-patched, high-severity bug in Fortinet’s FortiClient VPN application potentially allows a low-privilege rogue user or malware on a vulnerable Windows system to gain higher…