Best Prime Day Deals Day 2, Vetted By Our Gear Pros (Oct 2024)
12 days ago
196 min read There are still a few hours left to claim the best Prime Day deals. We've been obsessively tracking prices on editor-tested and approved gear starting at $6 to bring you the best bets.
Best Prime Day Deals, Vetted By Our Amazon Experts (Oct 2024)
12 days ago
175 min read Explore the best Prime Day deals on all your favorite editor-tested and approved gear. The Fall Prime Big Deal Days will only be around for another 34 hours!
OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla on why all the executive departures may be a good thing, taking on Elon Musk, and fixing AI's image problem
12 days ago
3 min read OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla is concerned there is too much doom and gloom about AI from 'Luddites' and says we are not focusing enough on its upside for humanity.
The Trouble With Telegram
12 days ago
Pavel Durov
, the founder of the chat app Telegram, was
arrested
in late August in France on charges that the company hasnât done enough to prevent malicious and illegal activity on the app.
One might be tempted to think that Telegramâs high level of data protection would
prevent
it from eff
The Trouble With Telegram
12 days ago
Pavel Durov
, the founder of the chat app Telegram, was
arrested
in late August in France on charges that the company hasnât done enough to prevent malicious and illegal activity on the app.
One might be tempted to think that Telegramâs high level of data protection would
prevent
it from eff
The Trouble With Telegram
12 days ago
Pavel Durov
, the founder of the chat app Telegram, was
arrested
in late August in France on charges that the company hasnât done enough to prevent malicious and illegal activity on the app.
One might be tempted to think that Telegramâs high level of data protection would
prevent
it from eff
The Trouble With Telegram
12 days ago
Pavel Durov
, the founder of the chat app Telegram, was
arrested
in late August in France on charges that the company hasnât done enough to prevent malicious and illegal activity on the app.
One might be tempted to think that Telegramâs high level of data protection would
prevent
it from eff
The Trouble With Telegram
12 days ago
Pavel Durov
, the founder of the chat app Telegram, was
arrested
in late August in France on charges that the company hasnât done enough to prevent malicious and illegal activity on the app.
One might be tempted to think that Telegramâs high level of data protection would
prevent
it from eff
Substack Success Story: $977,000 Earned
12 days ago
Back in March, I made a friend who banked $977,000 from Substack. They have earned well over $1 million now. I'm aware that sounds like BS. I wouldnât have believed it either. But itâs 100% true. I canât share the American writerâs name as they showed me their Stripe account in confidence. Substack
One specificity of LLM applications is the latency in obtaining a full output response from an LLM. It can take a few seconds, and it can be a bad user experience if a user needs to wait that long every time. One strategy to improve the user experience is to start streaming the LLM response before t
Letâs implement a quick streaming FastAPI endpoint. vLLM is a great library for implementing LLM inference and serving endpoints. For example, I can instantiate the Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct model this way: from vllm import AsyncLLMEngine, SamplingParams from vllm.engine.arg_utils import AsyncEngineArg
Apple shows that most LLMs are overfitting
12 days ago
Apple has published a benchmark which subtly varies the widely used 'GSM8K' math benchmark and in doing so shows that most LLMs may have data contamination - if you slightly vary some aspects of a widely used math test, their performance drops significantly. 'We show that the performance of all mode
The 10bn+ parameter distributed training run has arrived
12 days ago
AI startup Prime Intellect has launched INTELLECT-1, a decentralized training run of a 10-billion parameter model. If successful, this will be the largest decentralized training run of a frontier language model - that's a big deal, because it will show that loosely federated collectives might be abl
Facebook prepares for the fully personal video model future
12 days ago
Facebook has built Movie Gen, a set of generative models that can be used to generate and edit movies. These models can be used to generate videos from text, edit videos with text, and produce personalized videos (e.g you upload a photo of yourself and it shapes the video around you). Compute: These
Polydrop GitHub Repository
12 days ago
Polydrop is a Bring-Your-Own-Script-Interpreter toolkit that leverages 13 different scripting languages to deploy via trusted applications and evade detection by most AV and EDR solutions, including MS-Defender.
Living Off the Land: Remote Monitoring and Management is a project that aims to systematically catalog remote monitoring and management software. It aims to provide defenders with IoCs of software to watch out for in their environment. The project is looking for community contributors.
Polydrop is a Bring-Your-Own-Script-Interpreter toolkit that leverages 13 different scripting languages to deploy via trusted applications and evade detection by most AV and EDR solutions, including MS-Defender.
Living Off the Land: Remote Monitoring and Management is a project that aims to systematically catalog remote monitoring and management software. It aims to provide defenders with IoCs of software to watch out for in their environment. The project is looking for community contributors.
A small app that makes it easy to administrate simple firewall configurations.
Game Freak has confirmed that a data breach affecting 2,606 employees' information occurred in August. Earlier reports suggested the leaked data included codenames for future Pokémon games, Nintendo Switch 2, and other confidential information.
Ecovacs Robotic Vacuums Hacked
12 days ago
Ecovacs' Deebot X2 Omni robotic vacuums were hacked across US cities, with attackers using them to harass pets and owners with racist slurs. Ecovacs identified a credential stuffing event and blocked the IP address, but found no evidence of stolen user credentials.
Fidelity Investments has disclosed a data breach that resulted from a third party accessing information from its systems between August 17 and August 19 using two customer accounts that they created. According to data breach filings, the attacker was able to access customer data by making fraudulent
Password Management Research
12 days ago
This blog covers the latest research on password security, with new compelling ideas, unexpected discoveries, and questions for future exploration.
This 15-year-old bug hunter discovered a critical Zendesk vulnerability that affected Fortune 500 companies. The bug exploited weak email validation in Zendesk's ticket system, allowing attackers to spoof emails and access sensitive support conversations. This security gap exposed companies using Ze
GitHub Workflows Vulnerabilities
12 days ago
A comprehensive guide from OpenSSF on various GitHub Workflows vulnerabilities and their mitigations. The guide covers running untrusted code in privileged workflows, code injections, vulnerable actions, malicious releases, tag-renaming attacks, imposter commits, and unsafe use of caches. It conclud