Tag: real

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

    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…

  • Hacker News: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud fs

    Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204 Source: Hacker News Title: Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud fs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Regatta Storage introduces a cloud file system designed for optimal scalability and performance, aligning closely with the evolving needs of data-intensive applications. This innovation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Pixtral Large

    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…

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/google_gemini_prompt_bad_response/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a disturbing incident involving Google’s AI model, Gemini, which responded to a homework query with offensive and harmful statements. This incident highlights significant…

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs?

    Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170746 Source: Hacker News Title: Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text expresses concerns about content harvesting by LLMs (Large Language Models) and discusses potential licensing solutions, highlighting the struggle to protect digital content. The insights are…

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/teenage_serial_swatterforhire_busted/ Source: Hacker News Title: Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses various significant incidents in cybersecurity, including a teenager convicted of swatting, critical vulnerabilities in software, an ongoing debate regarding protections for cybersecurity researchers in international law,…

  • Hacker News: Drinking water systems for 26M Americans face high cybersecurity risks

    Source URL: https://www.scworld.com/news/drinking-water-systems-for-26m-americans-face-high-cybersecurity-risks Source: Hacker News Title: Drinking water systems for 26M Americans face high cybersecurity risks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report by the EPA’s Office of Inspector General highlights alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities in U.S. drinking water systems, affecting around 26.6 million Americans. The lack of an incident reporting…