Would you trust the current administration not to find a reason to claw back a grant?
@simonw
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Code Validation Tools Essential for AI Coding Agents
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As always though the trick is to arm them with a good coding agent harness and the right collection of tools – compilers and debuggers and linters and fuzzers and suchlike I don't trust any code produced by a model directly until I've seen the model run it
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LLMs Show Strong Capability for Complex C Code Reasoning
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I would not have trusted LLMs with C code a year ago but today's models appear to be very good at reasoning through memory management and other tricky aspects That said I'm not enough of a C expert myself to credible evaluate what they're doing!
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Security Visibility Trade-offs in Cyberattacks
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I don't understand how that benefits the attackers though, surely it just makes the issue MORE visible?
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GitHub LiteLLM Exploit Comments Mystery Explained
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Anyone got any theories as to why there are hundreds of comments like this on the GitHub issue reporting the exploit? https://
github.com/BerriAI/litell
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LiteLLM Package Quarantined on PyPI After Security Compromise
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Thankfully the LiteLLM package has now been marked as "quarantined" on PyPI so attempting to install the compromised update via pip et al shouldn't work
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Fast AI Performance on Latest Mac Hardware
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It appears to work fast enough to be interesting on the latest Mac hardware
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Protecting Journalist Sources From Government Subpoena Powers
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Think about journalists who sometimes need to protect their anonymous sources from governments with subpoena powers
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Qwen3.5-397B Runs on iPhone with Streaming MoE Weights
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Here's Qwen3.5-397B-A17B- a 397B model – using the streaming MoE weights trick to run on an iPhone! https://t.co/YjBZrUMt9S
— Simon Willison (@simonw) 24 mars 2026Here's Qwen3.5-397B-A17B- a 397B model – using the streaming MoE weights trick to run on an iPhone!
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Emerging AI Technique Gains Momentum Through Community Collaboration
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Dan Woods kicked the current surge of interest in this technique off a few days ago and it keeps getting more ambitious as more people join in