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  • The Register: Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/nvidia_ai_hpc/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC Feedly Summary: GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery SC24 Nvidia on Monday unveiled several new tools and frameworks for augmenting real-time fluid dynamics simulations, computational chemistry, weather forecasting,…

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

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    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…

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

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    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…

  • Slashdot: Belgian Region Trials Web Founder’s Data Privacy System

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/1654250/belgian-region-trials-web-founders-data-privacy-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Belgian Region Trials Web Founder’s Data Privacy System Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The initiative in Flanders to implement personal data “pods” represents a significant shift towards user-controlled data privacy, emphasizing compliance with European privacy regulations. This project, inspired by Tim Berners-Lee, seeks to empower individuals…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Pixtral Large

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/pixtral-large/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Pixtral Large Feedly Summary: Pixtral Large New today from Mistral: Today we announce Pixtral Large, a 124B open-weights multimodal model built on top of Mistral Large 2. Pixtral Large is the second model in our multimodal family and demonstrates frontier-level image understanding. The weights are out on…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/well/x-grok-health-privacy.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged Feedly Summary: Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights concerns from privacy experts regarding the…

  • CSA: The Risks of Insecure Third-Party Resources

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/11/18/top-threat-5-third-party-tango-dancing-around-insecure-resources Source: CSA Title: The Risks of Insecure Third-Party Resources Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses key security challenges related to cloud computing, specifically focusing on the fifth top threat: Insecure Third-Party Resources. It highlights the importance of Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) and offers strategies for…

  • Schneier on Security: Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/most-of-2023s-top-exploited-vulnerabilities-were-zero-days.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days Feedly Summary: Zero-day vulnerabilities are more commonly used, according to the Five Eyes: Key Findings In 2023, malicious cyber actors exploited more zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise enterprise networks compared to 2022, allowing them to conduct cyber operations against higher-priority…

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

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    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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/jack-clark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: The main innovation here is just using more data. Specifically, Qwen2.5 Coder is a continuation of an earlier Qwen 2.5 model. The original Qwen 2.5 model was trained on 18 trillion tokens spread across a variety of languages and tasks (e.g, writing,…