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  • Slashdot: Apple Migrates Its Password Monitoring Service to Swift from Java, Gains 40% Performance Uplift

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/15/2126220/apple-migrates-its-password-monitoring-service-to-swift-from-java-gains-40-performance-uplift Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Migrates Its Password Monitoring Service to Swift from Java, Gains 40% Performance Uplift Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses Apple’s transition from Java to Swift for its global Password Monitoring service, resulting in significant performance improvements. The migration achieved a 40% increase in…

  • Slashdot: China Shuts Down AI Tools During Nationwide College Exams

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1849202/china-shuts-down-ai-tools-during-nationwide-college-exams?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China Shuts Down AI Tools During Nationwide College Exams Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Major Chinese AI companies are disabling specific chatbot features during the gaokao college entrance exams to prevent cheating, highlighting a proactive approach to academic integrity. This shift demonstrates the intersection of AI…

  • Cloud Blog: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-features-for-transactional-data-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From analytics to data management: New BigQuery transactional features Feedly Summary: For years, BigQuery has been synonymous with fully managed, fast, petabyte-scale analytics. Its columnar architecture and decoupled storage and compute have made it the go-to data warehouse for deriving insights from massive datasets.  But what about the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral Embed

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/codestral-embed/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral Embed Feedly Summary: Codestral Embed Brand new embedding model from Mistral, specifically trained for code. Mistral claim that: Codestral Embed significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today: Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI’s large embedding model. The model is designed to work…

  • Cloud Blog: Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/apt41-innovative-tactics/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics Feedly Summary: Written by: Patrick Whitsell Google Threat Intelligence Group’s (GTIG) mission is to protect Google’s billions of users and Google’s multitude of products and services. In late October 2024, GTIG discovered an exploited government website hosting malware being used to target…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-pdf-to-images

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-pdf-to-images Feedly Summary: llm-pdf-to-images Inspired by my previous llm-video-frames plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so you can feed PDFs into models that support image inputs but don’t yet…