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  • Slashdot: Backdoor Infecting VPNs Used ‘Magic Packets’ For Stealth and Security

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/0039249/backdoor-infecting-vpns-used-magic-packets-for-stealth-and-security Source: Slashdot Title: Backdoor Infecting VPNs Used ‘Magic Packets’ For Stealth and Security Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** This text discusses a newly discovered backdoor malware named “J-Magic,” which targets enterprise VPNs running on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS. The backdoor employs advanced techniques, such as passive…

  • Hacker News: We Need to Talk About Docker Hub

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    Source URL: https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-docker-hub Source: Hacker News Title: We Need to Talk About Docker Hub Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the author’s frustrations regarding Docker Hub’s changes, particularly concerning their usability and the lack of customer support for the Docker-Sponsored Open Source (DSOS) program. It emphasizes the need for…

  • Slashdot: Scale AI CEO Says China Has Quickly Caught the US With DeepSeek

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/0049233/scale-ai-ceo-says-china-has-quickly-caught-the-us-with-deepseek?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Scale AI CEO Says China Has Quickly Caught the US With DeepSeek Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of China’s DeepSeek AI lab marks a significant shift in the global AI landscape, as it launches competitive models that challenge U.S. advancements. This development underlines the…

  • Hacker News: Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML

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    Source URL: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/01/21/llm-judge-decision-tree Source: Hacker News Title: Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an innovative approach to utilizing local LLMs (large language models) to assess product relevance for e-commerce search queries. By collecting data on LLM decisions and comparing them against human…

  • Slashdot: Trump Signs Executive Order on Developing AI ‘Free From Ideological Bias’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/0027228/trump-signs-executive-order-on-developing-ai-free-from-ideological-bias?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Trump Signs Executive Order on Developing AI ‘Free From Ideological Bias’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that aims to revoke previous policies related to artificial intelligence (AI) implemented under the Biden administration. The order emphasizes…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic’s new Citations API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/anthropics-new-citations-api/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic’s new Citations API Feedly Summary: Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what this is and why it’s interesting. Citations for Retrieval Augmented Generation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Dustin Ewers

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/dustin-ewers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Dustin Ewers Feedly Summary: AI tools create a significant productivity boost for developers. Different folks report different gains, but most people who try AI code generation recognize its ability to increase velocity. Many people think that means we’re going to need fewer developers, and our industry…

  • Hacker News: Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

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    Source URL: https://blog.vectorchord.ai/supercharge-vector-search-with-colbert-rerank-in-postgresql Source: Hacker News Title: Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses ColBERT, an innovative method for vector search that enhances search accuracy by representing text as token-level multi-vectors rather than sentence-level embeddings. This approach retains nuanced information and improves…

  • Slashdot: Misinformation and Cyberespionage Top WEF’s Global Risks Report 2025

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/004211/misinformation-and-cyberespionage-top-wefs-global-risks-report-2025?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Misinformation and Cyberespionage Top WEF’s Global Risks Report 2025 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 outlines significant risks posed by misinformation generated through AI tools, particularly highlighting the impact of state-sponsored campaigns on democratic systems. Additionally, cyberespionage emerges as…

  • The Register: Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/scale_ai_outlier_sued_over/ Source: The Register Title: Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths Feedly Summary: Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it’s alleged Scale AI, which labels training data for machine-learning models, was sued this month, alongside labor platform…