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  • The Register: AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/ai_hiring_test_bias/ Source: The Register Title: AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews Feedly Summary: Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry’s personal info from HR bots In mock interviews for software engineering jobs, recent AI models that evaluated responses rated men less favorably – particularly those with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gguf 0.2, now with embeddings

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/llm-gguf-embeddings/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gguf 0.2, now with embeddings Feedly Summary: llm-gguf 0.2, now with embeddings This new release of my llm-gguf plugin – which adds support for locally hosted GGUF LLMs – adds a new feature: it now supports embedding models distributed as GGUFs as well. This means you can…

  • Hacker News: Why one would use Qubes OS? (2023)

    Source URL: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-17-qubes-os-why.html Source: Hacker News Title: Why one would use Qubes OS? (2023) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Qubes OS offers a unique take on security and privacy through a compartmentalization paradigm that leverages virtualization. Its design allows users to create isolated environments (qubes) for different tasks, enhancing security by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/password-policies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong Feedly Summary: How some of the world’s most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong Stuart Schechter blames Robert Morris and Ken Thompson for the dire state of passwords today: The story…

  • Hacker News: DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf]

    Source URL: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1062.0.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: DOJ filed paperwork to US District Court to force Google to spin off Chrome [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This legal document outlines the proposed final judgment against Google, addressing its monopolistic practices in the general search services and search text advertising markets.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: TextSynth Server

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/textsynth-server/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TextSynth Server Feedly Summary: TextSynth Server I’d missed this: Fabrice Bellard (yes, that Fabrice Bellard) has a project called TextSynth Server which he describes like this: ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text…

  • Slashdot: Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0117253/inside-the-booming-ai-pimping-industry?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the rise of AI-generated influencers on Instagram, highlighting how these accounts are negatively impacting real content creators by monetizing stolen videos and images. This trend demonstrates a shift in social media dynamics,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steven Johnson

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/steven-johnson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steven Johnson Feedly Summary: When we started working on what became NotebookLM in the summer of 2022, we could fit about 1,500 words in the context window. Now we can fit up to 1.5 million words. (And using various other tricks, effectively fit 25 million words.)…

  • Slashdot: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0057206/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old ‘needrestart’ Flaw That Gives Root Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details five local privilege escalation vulnerabilities found in the Linux utility “needrestart,” crucial for professionals in security and compliance to recognize, as they highlight significant risks associated with resource…