FLOSS Weekly Episode 844: Simulated Word-of-Mouth

This week Jonathan, Doc, and Aaron chat about Open Source AI, advertisements, and where we’re at in the bubble roller coaster! https://www.zdnet.com/article/no-grok-2-5-has-not-been-open-sourced-heres-how-you-can-tell/ https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/ Did you know you can watch the …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 844: Simulated Word-of-Mouth

This Week in Security: Anime Catgirls, Illegal AdBlock, and Disputed Research

You may have noticed the Anime Catgirls when trying to get to the Linux Kernel’s mailing list, or one of any number of other sites associated with Open Source projects. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Anime Catgirls, Illegal AdBlock, and Disputed Research

This Week in Security: Perplexity v Cloudflare, GreedyBear, and HashiCorp

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, detailing what the company was seeing from Perplexity crawlers. Of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Perplexity v Cloudflare, GreedyBear, and HashiCorp

This Week in Security: Spilling Tea, Rooting AIs, and Accusing of Backdoors

The Tea app has had a rough week. It’s not an unfamiliar story: Unsecured Firebase databases were left exposed to the Internet without any authentication. What makes this story particularly …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Spilling Tea, Rooting AIs, and Accusing of Backdoors