Tag: efficiency

  • The Register: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/top500_el_capitan/ Source: The Register Title: LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance Feedly Summary: Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recides from public view SC24 Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier’s 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new…

  • Hacker News: Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens

    Source URL: http://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-turbo/ Source: Hacker News Title: Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of Qwen2.5-Turbo, a large language model (LLM) that significantly enhances processing capabilities, particularly with longer contexts, which are critical for many applications involving AI-driven natural language…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: DoD Zero Trust Strategy proves security benchmark years ahead of schedule with Microsoft collaboration

    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/11/11/dod-zero-trust-strategy-proves-security-benchmark-years-ahead-of-schedule-with-microsoft-collaboration/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: DoD Zero Trust Strategy proves security benchmark years ahead of schedule with Microsoft collaboration Feedly Summary: The Navy implementation scored a 100 percent success rate, meeting DoD requirements on all 91 Target-Level activities tested.​ The post DoD Zero Trust Strategy proves security benchmark years ahead of schedule…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: More value, less risk: How to implement generative AI across the organization securely and responsibly

    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2024/11/04/more-value-less-risk-how-to-implement-generative-ai-across-the-organization-securely-and-responsibly/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: More value, less risk: How to implement generative AI across the organization securely and responsibly Feedly Summary: The technology landscape is undergoing a massive transformation, and AI is at the center of this change. The post More value, less risk: How to implement generative AI across the…

  • Cloud Blog: New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/new-proxy-adapter-eases-cassandra-to-spanner-migration/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey Feedly Summary: Cassandra, a key-value NoSQL database, is prized for its speed and scalability, and used broadly for  applications that require rapid data retrieval and storage such as caching, session management, and real-time analytics. Its simple key-value pair structure…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/qwen-turbo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens Feedly Summary: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens The new Qwen2.5-Turbo boasts a million token context window (up from 128,000 for Qwen 2.5) and faster performance: Using sparse attention mechanisms, we successfully reduced the time to first…

  • CSA: Are Traditional Groups Fit for Cloud Permissions?

    Source URL: https://www.britive.com/resource/blog/group-based-permissions-and-iga-shortcomings-in-the-cloud Source: CSA Title: Are Traditional Groups Fit for Cloud Permissions? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the limitations of traditional identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions in managing permissions in modern cloud environments. It emphasizes the risks associated with over-reliance on group-based permissions, highlighting the need for…

  • CSA: 9 Tips to Improve Unstructured Data Security

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/9-tips-to-simplify-and-improve-unstructured-data-security Source: CSA Title: 9 Tips to Improve Unstructured Data Security Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines significant strategies for managing and securing unstructured data, based on a 2024 Gartner report. These strategies focus on leveraging Data Access Governance and Data Discovery tools, adapting to the changing landscape…

  • The Register: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/uk_tax_collector_awards_366/ Source: The Register Title: UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud Feedly Summary: SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries The UK’s tax collector has awarded contracts worth up to £366 million ($461 million) in an…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.4

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/llm-gemini-04/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.4 New release of my llm-gemini plugin, adding support for asynchronous models (see LLM 0.18), plus the new gemini-exp-1114 model (currently at the top of the Chatbot Arena) and a -o json_object 1 option to force JSON output. I also released llm-claude-3…