Tag: actions

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

Slashdot: Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/235206/disney-scrapped-deepfakes-for-moana-and-tron-to-avoid-bad-publicity Source: Slashdot Title: Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Disney’s recent decision to abandon plans for using deepfake technology in its projects, including Moana and Tron: Ares, highlights escalating concerns about the ramifications of AI in creative content. The…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

The Register: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/perplexity_ai_crawlers_accused_data_raids/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity AI accused of scraping content against websites’ will with unlisted IP ranges Feedly Summary: Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites’ no-crawl directives.……

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting @himbodhisattva

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/himbodhisattva/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting @himbodhisattva Feedly Summary: for services that wrap GPT-3, is it possible to do the equivalent of sql injection? like, a prompt-injection attack? make it think it’s completed the task and then get access to the generation, and ask it to repeat the original instruction? — @himbodhisattva,…

Tomasz Tunguz: Small Action Models Are the Future of AI Agents

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Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/ai-skills-inversion/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: Small Action Models Are the Future of AI Agents Feedly Summary: 2025 is the year of agents, and the key capability of agents is calling tools. When using Claude Code, I can tell the AI to sift through a newsletter, find all the links to startups, verify they…

Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

The Register: Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: ‘It’s an ongoing cat-and-mouse game’

Aug 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/03/silent_push_ceo_talks_cybercrime/ Source: The Register Title: Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: ‘It’s an ongoing cat-and-mouse game’ Feedly Summary: Plus: why takedowns aren’t in threat-intel analysts’ best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital…

The Register: CISA roasts unnamed critical national infrastructure body for shoddy security hygiene

Aug 2, 2025

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