The State of AI report 2024 is available. Some notes: their definition of “Agent” seems reasonable: “AI Agent: an AI-powered system that can take actions in an environment. For example, an LLM that has access to a suite of tools and has to decide which one to use in order to accomplish a task that it has been prompted to do.”. Jaana Dogan, Pr... Read more 10 Oct 2024 - 2 minute read
Particularly when working on a source code project, users find the need to submit several files to an LLM at once. Several software project to aid with this have sprung into existence. A thread on HackerNews listed at least seven different ones, one of them being Repopack. I like to avoid installing non-essential software, so found it useful to... Read more 06 Oct 2024 - 1 minute read
This week, we had a compelling presentation on Intelligent Trust Services at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) Trust Services Forum, part of CA Day 2024 in Heraklion. The session, delivered by my colleague Jörg Lenz, delved into the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within digital trust products and processes, highlig... Read more 03 Oct 2024 (Updated) - 3 minute read
Critical vulnerabilites in CUPS have been disclosed ahead of the orignally planned schedule. The affected systems are officially described as “GNU/Linux and some BSDs” including Chromebooks. Printers: The Overlooked Attack Vector While much of the discussion has centered on traditional Unix-like systems, printers should not be ignored as their... Read more 27 Sep 2024 - 2 minute read
Llama 3.2 just got released, and as announced earlier, the multi-modal models are not available in the EU. From their Acceptable Use Policy: With respect to any multimodal models included in Llama 3.2, the rights granted under Section 1(a) of the Llama 3.2 Community License Agreement are not being granted to you if you are an individual domic... Read more 25 Sep 2024 - less than 1 minute read