This was interesting to look at. I know it's not supposed to be perfect but it certainly does make one think about the career routes available. What surprised me was how short the path was for security to getting into the C-Suite. Although I do feel like most people become security analysts, then ISOs. Also I didn't realize that tape librarians were still a thing.
This is pretty cool. I appreciate that they reintroduced security bugs into the implementation to confirm that their process was actually catching issues. I feel like so many "look what AI did!" articles these days focus on the fact that AI did something and not about whether it did it correctly or not. Nevertheless I hope we will get more reliable libraries and dependencies out of this.
Agreed, I used to role my eyes when my professors asked me to do things like pseudocode (which I still don't do too much) but the act of writing an outline for the general structure of a program always helped me get over the initial hump of starting a new project.
hm... this is the first time. TIL something from the HN comments more than the actual article. I'm relatively new to the AI space and the idea of quantization is something I'll have to take forward when evaluating future models.
Its interesting because I was at Costco the other day and they weren't even selling PCs unless they were gaming ones. It seems most consumer electronics have switched over to laptops.
Also, this reminds me so much of the download more RAM ads back in the day.
Most of it has switched to mobile phones and tablets. It doesn't help that almost everywhere digital classroom means tablet instead of laptop. Sure, the control is convenient for the teacher, but it also means we are raising our children in walled gardens. So much so, that whole generations don't even leave that garden in their spare time.
I'm still waiting for the day a mac air style shell exists where I plug my phone in and just get a real desktop experience. The chips in phones these days are plenty powerful. I always thought it would be where we were going, but alas, no major manufacturer seems to want to make it feel like a seamless, premium experience. Samsung got sorta close, but the peripherals involved never felt great or didn't make sense from a cost perspective.
I wonder what it would look like if Apple offered a slimmed down shell from the Neo for ~$300 that required a connected iPhone. Maybe as iOS and MacOS converge we'll get there.
It's shocking that it took so long with the amount of investment and hype you'd expect this kind of bugs to be already fixed, but it still need a human to tell the agents what to do, which could also work with any fuzzing framework
I think what's fascinating is that the mentality of "It's too painful to attack" as a security strategy isn't working anymore in the era of AI. A lot of open issues and bugs were kept because folks assumed as long as they were less vulnerable than other folks they would be fine. However I think that paradigm is being phased out since AI can take the pain of sifting through decades of old code for us to find these vulnerabilities.
Thank you for sharing! I've been looking for interfaces that let me access all the sites I regularly use but without the algorithm. This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for!
This really resonates for me. I've gone back and forth on staying on social media given the mental side effects but also how useful it can be. I was on Instagram one day and I noticed that only one in five posts it showed me were from people I actually followed. I found a feature that let met only see stuff from people I followed (Insta makes this hard to find and use) and I felt a lot more at peace when scrolling my feed. Maybe I need to look for a firefly equivalent for it.
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