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  • Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-the-bigquery–column-metadata-cmeta-index/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Feedly Summary: While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jason Liu

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/jason-liu/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jason Liu Feedly Summary: I am once again shocked at how much better image retrieval performance you can get if you embed highly opinionated summaries of an image, a summary that came out of a visual language model, than using CLIP embeddings themselves. If you tell…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Feedly Summary: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 New not-quite-MIT licensed model from Chinese Moonshot AI, a follow-up to the highly regarded Kimi-K2 model they released in July. This one is an incremental improvement – I’ve seen it referred to online as “Kimi K-2.1". It scores a little higher on a…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/ai-doctor-scams.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds Feedly Summary: Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a concerning trend where…

  • Anchore: Establishing Continuous Compliance with Anchore & Chainguard: Automating Container Security

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    Source URL: https://anchore.com/webinars/establishing-continuous-compliance-with-anchore-chainguard-automating-container-security/ Source: Anchore Title: Establishing Continuous Compliance with Anchore & Chainguard: Automating Container Security Feedly Summary: The post Establishing Continuous Compliance with Anchore & Chainguard: Automating Container Security appeared first on Anchore. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the integration of Anchore and Chainguard to automate container security, focusing on…

  • Slashdot: Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/05/196218/boffins-build-automated-android-bug-hunting-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an innovative AI-powered bug-hunting agent called A2, developed by researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney. This agent aims to enhance vulnerability discovery in Android apps, achieving significantly higher…

  • The Register: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/ Source: The Register Title: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features Feedly Summary: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options Among the software developers who use Microsoft’s GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/05/0535228/anthropic-clamps-down-on-ai-services-for-chinese-owned-firms Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic is instituting measures to block its AI services from companies controlled by China, citing concerns over national security and the potential use of its technology for military purposes. This move reflects…