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  • Slashdot: Insurers Balk At Paying Out Huge Settlements For Claims Against AI Firms

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/207203/insurers-balk-at-paying-out-huge-settlements-for-claims-against-ai-firms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Insurers Balk At Paying Out Huge Settlements For Claims Against AI Firms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses OpenAI and Anthropic’s challenges in obtaining sufficient insurance coverage for potential legal claims related to artificial intelligence, highlighting the burgeoning risks in the AI landscape. It…

  • Slashdot: Salesforce Says It Won’t Pay Extortion Demand in 1 Billion Records Breach

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/208202/salesforce-says-it-wont-pay-extortion-demand-in-1-billion-records-breach?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Salesforce Says It Won’t Pay Extortion Demand in 1 Billion Records Breach Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Salesforce is facing an extortion demand from a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen approximately 1 billion records from various customers, highlighting vulnerabilities in user compliance and security…

  • AWS News Blog: New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-general-purpose-amazon-ec2-m8a-instances-are-now-available/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available Feedly Summary: Amazon EC2 has launched new M8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors, offering up to 30% better performance and 19% better price performance compared to M7a instances, along with improved memory bandwidth, networking, and…

  • Slashdot: 858TB of Government Data May Be Lost For Good After South Korea Data Center Fire

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/08/155239/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 858TB of Government Data May Be Lost For Good After South Korea Data Center Fire Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The fire at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service data center has potentially resulted in the permanent loss of 858TB of government data, severely impacting services…

  • The Register: AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/ai_bots_use_emotional_manipulation/ Source: The Register Title: AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage Feedly Summary: Researchers argue that this dark pattern poses a legal risk AI companion apps such as Character.ai and Replika commonly try to boost user engagement with emotional manipulation, a practice that academics characterize as a dark pattern.… AI…

  • Cloud Blog: 150 of the latest AI use cases from leading startups and digital natives

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/150-ai-use-cases-leading-startups-and-digital-natives/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 150 of the latest AI use cases from leading startups and digital natives Feedly Summary: We recently hosted our first-ever AI Builders Forum, where we gathered with hundreds of the top founders, VCs, advisors, researchers, and teams powering the startups who are building the future with AI. And…

  • Slashdot: Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2110246/sora-2-watermark-removers-flood-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses concerns regarding the effectiveness of watermarks in AI-generated videos, particularly focusing on OpenAI’s Sora 2. Experts highlight that while watermarks serve as a basic protective measure, their ease of removal poses…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use can solve Google’s own CAPTCHAs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/gemini-25-computer-use-captchas/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use can solve Google’s own CAPTCHAs Feedly Summary: Google just introduced a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, specially designed to help operate a GUI interface by interacting with visible elements using a virtual mouse and keyboard. I just tried their demo… and watched…

  • The Register: Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/gen_ai_shadow_it_secrets/ Source: The Register Title: Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT Feedly Summary: Microsoft Copilot, not so much Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk. According to a study by security biz LayerX, a large number of corporate users paste Personally Identifiable Information (PII)…

  • Cloud Blog: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/five-best-practices-for-using-ai-coding-assistants/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants Feedly Summary: Does owning a kitchen knife mean you know how to effectively dice onions or julienne carrots? Of course not. Access to a tool doesn’t guarantee profenciency. To get the results you’re looking for, you need to learn the…