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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sam Altman

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/sam-altman/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sam Altman Feedly Summary: change of plans: we are going to release o3 and o4-mini after all, probably in a couple of weeks, and then do GPT-5 in a few months — Sam Altman Tags: sam-altman, generative-ai, openai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Taming the Wild West of ML: Practical Model Signing with Sigstore

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/04/taming-wild-west-of-ml-practical-model.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Taming the Wild West of ML: Practical Model Signing with Sigstore Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text announces the launch of a model signing library developed by the Google Open Source Security Team in collaboration with NVIDIA and HiddenLayer, aimed at enhancing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/gemini-25-pro-pricing/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently the top model on LM Arena and, from my own testing, a superb model for OCR, audio transcription and long-context coding. You can now pay for it! The new…

  • The Register: Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/04/public_sector_private_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption Feedly Summary: The need to scale still battling security worries … on both sides Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public…

  • The Register: Alan Turing Institute: UK can’t handle a fight against AI-enabled crims

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/04/nca_ati_ai_report/ Source: The Register Title: Alan Turing Institute: UK can’t handle a fight against AI-enabled crims Feedly Summary: Law enforcement facing huge gap in ‘AI adoption’ The National Crime Agency (NCA) will “closely examine" the recommendations made by the Alan Turing Institute after it claimed the UK was ill-equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime.……

  • Slashdot: DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/03/2236242/deepmind-details-all-the-ways-agi-could-wreck-the-world Source: Slashdot Title: DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a technical paper from DeepMind that explores the potential risks associated with the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and offers suggestions for safe development practices. It highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: smartfunc

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/3/smartfunc/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: smartfunc Feedly Summary: smartfunc Vincent D. Warmerdam built this ingenious wrapper around my LLM Python library which lets you build LLM wrapper functions using a decorator and a docstring: from smartfunc import backend @backend(“gpt-4o") def generate_summary(text: str): """Generate a summary of the following text: """ pass summary…

  • Cloud Blog: Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-exploiting-critical-ivanti-vulnerability/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457) Feedly Summary: Written by: John Wolfram, Michael Edie, Jacob Thompson, Matt Lin, Josh Murchie On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-22457, impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (“ICS”) VPN appliances version 22.7R2.5 and…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers From Chicago To Jakarta

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/03/144259/microsoft-pulls-back-on-data-centers-from-chicago-to-jakarta?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers From Chicago To Jakarta Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is reassessing its global data center initiatives, delaying or halting projects significant for AI and cloud infrastructure. This could indicate either a decrease in expected demand for AI services or…

  • The Register: Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/heterogeneity_itaas_ransomware_disaster_recovery/ Source: The Register Title: Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare Feedly Summary: Recovery’s never been harder in today’s tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it’s not floods or fires causing most outages…