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Shorter episode this week resulting from RSA! When you’re round come say hello!
Largest story I’m watching proper now within the information is that we is perhaps about to have one other provide chain drawback just like with COVID due to the tariffs. The Port of Los Angeles is saying they’ll get 35% much less subsequent week than regular. LINK
I’m doing this new discuss on Unified Entity Context and the way it’ll grow to be the middle of Enterprise AI. Right here’s a teaser:
What’s driving success for 900+ safety leaders?
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CYBERSECURITY
Easterly requires unity towards politicization of the cyber trade
Jen Easterly’s saying the present admin firing nonpartisan cyber leaders is absolutely hurting our defenses, and must be stopped. “The most important vulnerability we face isn’t a zero-day in our software program. It’s a zero-day in our civic integrity.” 100% agree. LINK
Model checks miss actual threats. Nuclei doesn’t.
Prime worker monitoring app leaks 21M screenshots on customers
WorkComposer, a surveillance app utilized by over 200,000 individuals, leaked 21 million worker screenshots by way of an open S3 bucket. LINK
Microsoft rolls out Home windows Recall, a yr later
Microsoft is letting individuals check out its “Recall” function after a yr of drama and delays. Large distinction is that they appear to be being extra delicate as to whether it’s on by default, and so they’re placing extra effort into explaining the tech. LINK
Your telephone is not secretly listening to you
Your telephone isn’t listening to you, nevertheless it’s completely monitoring tons of stuff about you. LINK
AI
Microsoft CEO says as much as 30% of the corporate’s code was AI-generated
Satya Nadella says a couple of quarter of Microsoft’s codebase is already being written by synthetic intelligence. LINK
OpenAI Places Picture Technology within the API
OpenAI is now letting you create photographs utilizing 4o by way of the API. That’s an entire new set of startups being constructed and being destroyed. LINK | PRICING
YouTube Exams AI Overviews in Search Outcomes
YouTube’s testing a function the place AI picks video clips to indicate proper in search outcomes for sure queries. LINK
Predicting the NBA Champion with Machine Studying
Somebody builds a mannequin for predicting the output of the NBA finals. Love this type of stuff. LINK
Anthropic questions AI consciousness
Anthropic is formally researching whether or not AIs may very well be acutely aware and if, sometime, they could deserve moral therapy. Appears apparent to me that they’d. All of it hinges on whether or not or not / once they grow to be acutely aware. LINK
TECHNOLOGY
Studying RSS content material is a talented exercise
Actually cool piece about how the act of curating and studying information is a talent in itself. And one thing to protect. LINK
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Says Waymos Might Be Personally Owned in Future
Sundar Pichai principally hinted we would finally purchase our personal self-driving Waymo automobiles. Identical dream Tesla had: you utilize it your self to go locations, and whenever you’re not utilizing it, it does rides and makes you cash. LINK
Apple Supposedly Desires to Produce All U.S. Telephones in India by Finish of 2026
Apple is outwardly transferring all U.S.-bound iPhone manufacturing to India by the tip of subsequent yr. In different phrases, get out of China as quick as attainable. God pace. LINK
HUMANS
U.S. Economic system Contracts at 0.3% Fee in First Quarter
It seems just like the financial system is about to take a severe hit. The financial system really shrank a bit of within the first quarter, and the port of Los Angeles says it’ll see a 35% drop in transport subsequent week. LINK | LINK
United Arab Emirates first nation to make use of AI to put in writing legal guidelines
UAE’s really letting AI draft and replace its legal guidelines. That is an instance of the place we really need extra AI to correctly do human issues. Readability. Transparency. Documentation. Because of this I’m so enthusiastic about Substrate. LINK
GenZ grads say school levels a waste of time/cash due to AI
Some new school grads are saying their school levels really feel sort of pointless now that AI is all over the place in hiring. LINK
Economists are very confused proper now
A lot of the world’s economists are confused proper now as a result of customary fashions aren’t explaining the information we’re seeing. I believe there are simply too many new issues that the fashions can’t account for. Issues are too dynamic and too unusual. LINK
California overtakes Japan to grow to be the world’s 4th largest financial system
California simply moved previous Japan to grow to be the world’s fourth greatest financial system. LINK
Why I Weblog and How I Automate it (2023)
Ryan West explains that running a blog is generally about forcing himself to make clear concepts he’s choosing up from all over the place else and automating it so writing is as low-friction as attainable. 100% agree with this. LINK
Uncommon Earth parts aren’t really all that uncommon
China’s makes an attempt to weaponize uncommon earth exports solely actually work if everybody else fails to go and get those they’ve in their very own international locations. LINK
DISCOVERY
Reverse Zip Bombs
Ibrahim Diallo constructed a “reverse zip bomb” protection that crashes dangerous bots by handing them large decompressed information. LINK
Backfill your weblog
Backfilling your weblog with previous writing is an encouraging option to get a weblog began. LINK
Authorities Funding Graph RAGAuthorities Funding Graph — If you wish to discover authorities analysis funding as an interactive information graph with LLM querying, this new Streamlit app makes it really usable. LINK
Somebody used OpenAI’s new picture API to make a customized coloring e book serviceCleverColoringBook—You’ll be able to drop in your favourite photographs and get an actual coloring e book comprised of them, powered by OpenAI’s new mannequin. LINK
Writing “/and so forth/hosts” breaks the Substack editor
When you kind “/and so forth/hosts” in Substack, the editor simply falls over and stops working. LINK
A Immediate that does 7-8 duties on the similar timePrivate AI Assistant — This factor does looking, file administration, scheduling, and extra—from one immediate. LINK
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