Tag: Context

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/whatsapp_privacy_concerns/ Source: The Register Title: WhatsApp may expose the OS you use to run it – which could expose you to crooks Feedly Summary: Messaging service creates persistent user IDs that have different qualities on each device An analysis of Meta’s WhatsApp messaging software reveals that it may expose which operating system a…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting François Chollet

Oct 16, 2024

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/16/francois-chollet/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting François Chollet Feedly Summary: A common misconception about Transformers is to believe that they’re a sequence-processing architecture. They’re not. They’re a set-processing architecture. Transformers are 100% order-agnostic (which was the big innovation compared to RNNs, back in late 2016 — you compute the full matrix of…

Wired: Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

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Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/llms-cant-perform-genuine-logical-reasoning-apple-researchers-suggest/ Source: Wired Title: Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be Feedly Summary: The new frontier in large language models is the ability to “reason” their way through problems. New research from Apple says it’s not quite what it’s cracked up to be. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study…

The Register: Cisco confirms ‘ongoing investigation’ after crims brag about selling tons of data

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/cisco_confirm_ongoing_investigation/ Source: The Register Title: Cisco confirms ‘ongoing investigation’ after crims brag about selling tons of data Feedly Summary: IntelBroker claims the breach impacts Microsoft, SAP, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US, and more Cisco has confirmed it is investigating claims of stealing — and now selling — data belonging to the networking giant.… AI Summary…

The Register: DARPA pays $6M to see fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopters

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/black_hawk_autonomous_tech/ Source: The Register Title: DARPA pays $6M to see fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopters Feedly Summary: Resupply like Call of Duty? Not yet – only one planned for now The US military is betting the Black Hawk helicopter of the future won’t need pilots, and it’s giving the bird’s maker Sikorsky $6…

Slashdot: Apple Study Reveals Critical Flaws in AI’s Logical Reasoning Abilities

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Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/10/15/1840242/apple-study-reveals-critical-flaws-in-ais-logical-reasoning-abilities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Study Reveals Critical Flaws in AI’s Logical Reasoning Abilities Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple’s AI research team identifies critical weaknesses in large language models’ reasoning capabilities, highlighting issues with logical consistency and performance variability due to question phrasing. This research underlines the potential reliability…

Hacker News: Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety

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Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/safer-with-google-advancing-memory.html Source: Hacker News Title: Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses Google’s strategic commitment to enhancing memory safety in software, revealing a two-pronged approach that includes increasing the adoption of memory-safe languages and improving the risk management of existing memory-unsafe languages.…

Cloud Blog: Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/2024-ocp-global-summit-keynote/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amber Huffman, Principal Engineer. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders,…

Alerts: Guidance: Framing Software Component Transparency: Establishing a Common Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

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