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  • Hacker News: Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++

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    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html Source: Hacker News Title: Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Google’s ongoing efforts to enhance memory safety in C++ through the implementation of hardened libc++, which introduces bounds checking to prevent spatial memory safety vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, representing a…

  • Slashdot: Open Source Fights Back: ‘We Won’t Get Patent-Trolled Again’

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/15/018247/open-source-fights-back-we-wont-get-patent-trolled-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Fights Back: ‘We Won’t Get Patent-Trolled Again’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** At KubeCon North America 2024, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) emphasized a collaborative movement against patent trolls that exploit cloud-native technologies. The organization aims to invalidate patents that hinder innovation by…

  • Hacker News: Attestations: A new generation of signatures on PyPI

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    Source URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/11/14/attestations-a-new-generation-of-signatures-on-pypi/ Source: Hacker News Title: Attestations: A new generation of signatures on PyPI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The announcement discusses a new security feature on the Python Package Index (PyPI): index-hosted digital attestations based on PEP 740. This feature enhances package provenance and security by integrating with Trusted…

  • Hacker News: Are We PEP740 Yet?

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    Source URL: https://trailofbits.github.io/are-we-pep740-yet/ Source: Hacker News Title: Are We PEP740 Yet? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** PEP 740 introduces a standard for cryptographically verifiable attestations for Python packages, ensuring better security and provenance verification through digital signatures. This initiative utilizes Sigstore technology and highlights the significance of trusted identities in safeguarding…

  • Hacker News: AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive

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    Source URL: https://gauge.sh/blog/ai-makes-tech-debt-more-expensive Source: Hacker News Title: AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the impact of generative AI on tech debt, highlighting that while AI tools can significantly enhance coding velocity in low-debt environments, they struggle with high-debt legacy systems. The discussion emphasizes…

  • Hacker News: We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models

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    Source URL: https://blog.helix.ml/p/we-can-all-be-ai-engineers Source: Hacker News Title: We can all be AI engineers – and we can do it with open source models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how the barriers to AI engineering are diminishing, largely due to the evolution of tools and practices from DevOps to…

  • Rainforest QA Blog | Software Testing Guides: New research: AI struggles to conquer open-source test maintenance challenges

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    Source URL: https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/ai-vs-open-source-test-maintenance Source: Rainforest QA Blog | Software Testing Guides Title: New research: AI struggles to conquer open-source test maintenance challenges Feedly Summary: New research shows AI isn’t paying off in ways that matter to software teams using open-source frameworks. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the findings from a survey…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac Feedly Summary: There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz…

  • The Register: AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/12/aws_trainium_researchers/ Source: The Register Title: AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers Feedly Summary: Throwing novel hardware at academia. It’s a tale as old as time Amazon wants more people building applications and frameworks for its custom Trainium accelerators and is making up to 40,000 chips available to university researchers…

  • Hacker News: The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I)

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    Source URL: https://eastwind.substack.com/p/the-future-of-programming-copilots Source: Hacker News Title: The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the competitive landscape of AI code generation tools, particularly focusing on offerings from Microsoft (GitHub Copilot), Codeium, and Cursor. It reviews user experiences, strengths, and weaknesses of…