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  • Slashdot: CES ‘Worst In Show’ Devices Mocked In IFixit Video – While YouTube Inserts Ads For Them

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/11/1748206/ces-worst-in-show-devices-mocked-in-ifixit-video—while-youtube-inserts-ads-for-them?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CES ‘Worst In Show’ Devices Mocked In IFixit Video – While YouTube Inserts Ads For Them Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The excerpt discusses the potential threats posed by certain technology products unveiled at CES, particularly in terms of their repairability, privacy, and security vulnerabilities. Notable…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s Bot Crushes Seven-Person Company’s Website ‘Like a DDoS Attack’

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/11/0449242/openais-bot-crushes-seven-person-companys-website-like-a-ddos-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s Bot Crushes Seven-Person Company’s Website ‘Like a DDoS Attack’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident highlights serious implications for both security and compliance, showcasing how AI bots can unintentionally cause significant disruptions to online businesses through excessive data scraping. The lack of a properly…

  • Hacker News: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/ai-predictions/ Source: Hacker News Title: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents predictions regarding AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) over the next one, three, and six years, with insights into their potential applications, limitations, and societal…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

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    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/how-openais-bot-crushed-this-seven-person-companys-web-site-like-a-ddos-attack/ Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant incident involving Triplegangers’ CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk, whose e-commerce site was subjected to aggressive scraping by OpenAI’s bot, leading to operational disruptions and…

  • Hacker News: I Program with LLMs

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/how-i-program-with-llms/ Source: Hacker News Title: I Program with LLMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the author’s personal experiences and insights from using generative AI models, specifically large language models (LLMs), in programming. It emphasizes the productivity benefits derived from LLMs and introduces a tool in development…

  • Wired: Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/2024-dnc-cell-site-simulator-phone-surveillance/ Source: Wired Title: Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC Feedly Summary: Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:**…

  • Hacker News: Learning How to Think with Meta Chain-of-Thought

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04682 Source: Hacker News Title: Learning How to Think with Meta Chain-of-Thought Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The document presents a novel framework called Meta Chain-of-Thought (Meta-CoT) aimed at enhancing reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). This framework is positioned to advance AI behavior toward more human-like reasoning,…

  • The Register: Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/german_router_maker_avm_lgpl/ Source: The Register Title: Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL Feedly Summary: On the Fritz: German router maker AVM declines to appeal in device rights case after coughing up source code Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for…

  • The Register: Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/meta_libgen_allegation/ Source: The Register Title: Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content Feedly Summary: Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Meta allegedly downloaded material from an online source that’s been sued for breaching copyright, because it wanted the material to train its…