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Half a year ago, I wanted to see for myself what can we currently have with local LLMs. I went down the rabbit hole, learned quite a lot in the process, and shared my results in an article. The results were pretty discouraging: even with 32 GB VRAM, the best models I could run were both too slow and
Only one of them felt like something I actually want to open every day
Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people’s internet traffic. The action was carried out in coordination with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Inve
Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users' conversations.
Venice.ai, a privacy-focused AI startup led by CEO Erik Voorhees and Seattle-based president and CTO Jesse Proudman, has raised $65 million in its first outside funding at a $1 billion valuation. The company offers a private alternative to mainstream AI services, saying it doesn't store users' promp
The Centre has reportedly issued a notice to Meta to pause the rollout of WhatsApp’s proposed username feature in India…
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
Logged-out Old Reddit access is “significant source of abusive scraping."
A hands-on walkthrough of a hybrid local-cloud workflow using Gemma 4 and GPT-5.4, with reasoning and structured outputs The post Stop Choosing Between Local and Cloud LLMs: A Field Guide to Hybrid Patterns appeared first on Towards Data Science.
The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive
With organizations reorganizing themselves to put artificial intelligence at the center, we’ve seen a shift from information being valuable to being a means of achieving intelligence, which is far more important. But what happens to organizations’ data when they adopt AI? Do they keep it or turn it
The FBI and CISA have warned that Russian intelligence hackers are now targeting Signal users’ backup recovery keys, an escalation of a phishing campaign that has already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide. The updated advisory, published Thursday, says that handing over the key once gives
People can unlock their files even if you're not there in person.
You’ve heard the warnings! Don’t tell ChatGPT your secrets. The robots are reading everything. Your data is the product. And yet here you are: using them as a subscriber. Because AI is genuinely useful! The good news: that distrust is healthy, and you don’t have to choose between using AI and protec
Russian authorities used Cellebrite's UFED forensic tools to break into the iPhone of detained opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021, three months after Cellebrite said it would stop selling its tools and services to Russia and Belarus. The finding, published June 25 by the Citizen Lab,
Four vulnerabilities allow attackers to exploit Dify, a platform for AI application building and management, to silently access and exfiltrate sensitive data.
While this is the first time Telegram has faced such a restriction in India, the platform launched by Russia-born Pavel Durov in August 2013 has come under bans or other punitive actions in several countries in the past.
Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter just walked operators through cloning themselves with Gemini Omni in under 15 minutes. Voice, face, knowledge base, response patterns. Fifteen minutes. The tools are here. The question is whether the clone runs on infrastructure you own — your knowledge graph, your MCP s
When you buy a SaaS tool, your data sits in someone else's database. When you buy an AI service, your data flows through someone else's model. It has the posibiliy to become training data. Your data might get embedded in weights you can never inspect. It might surface — partially reconstructed — in
The GPT-4 Code Interpreter You Can Actually Own — And Run for Free If you've ever used ChatGPT's Code Interpreter (now "Advanced Data Analysis"), you know the feeling: "This is incredible... but why can't I run it locally? Why can't I install my own packages? Why do files disappear after 2 hours?" O
