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simonwillison.net/Cato CTRL™ Threat Research: PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Introduces New “Living off AI” Risk
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A threat actor (acting as an external user) submits a malicious support ticket. An internal user, linked to a tenant, invokes an …
How OpenElections Uses LLMs
The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are …
Clarified zucchini consommé
I continue to have fun running fantasy cooking prompts through LLMs - this time I tried
Quoting Arvind Narayanan
Radiology has embraced AI enthusiastically, and the labor force is growing nevertheless. The augmentation-not-automation effect of AI is despite the fact that AFAICT there is no identified "task" at which …
Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News
They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output …
Coding agents require skilled operators
I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The
I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning
Fascinating, detailed account by Monroe Clinton of a geospatial machine learning project. Monroe wanted to count visible yurts in Mongolia using Google Maps satellite view. The resulting project incorporates mercantile …
It's a trap
That memvid thing that
Trying out the new Gemini 2.5 model family
After many months of previews, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash have reached general availability with new, memorable model IDs: gemini-2.5-pro and gemini-2.5-flash. They are joined by a new preview model …
Quoting Donghee Na
The Steering Council (SC) approves PEP 779 [Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python], with the effect of removing the “experimental” tag from the free-threaded build of Python 3.14 [...] …