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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agents

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/11/agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agents Feedly Summary: Agents Chip Huyen’s 8,000 word practical guide to building useful LLM-driven workflows that take advantage of tools. Chip starts by providing a definition of “agents" to be used in the piece – in this case it’s LLM systems that plan an approach and then…

  • The Register: Chinese cyber-spies peek over shoulder of officials probing real-estate deals near American military bases

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/china_treasury_foreign_investment/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese cyber-spies peek over shoulder of officials probing real-estate deals near American military bases Feedly Summary: Gee, wonder why Beijing is so keen on the – checks notes – Committee on Foreign Investment in the US Chinese cyber-spies who broke into the US Treasury Department also stole documents…

  • Slashdot: Google Faces Trial For Collecting Data On Users Who Opted Out

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/09/2059258/google-faces-trial-for-collecting-data-on-users-who-opted-out?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Faces Trial For Collecting Data On Users Who Opted Out Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A federal judge has denied Google’s motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that alleges the company violated user privacy. The case centers around Google’s Web & App Activity settings, raising…

  • The Register: Biden reportedly weighs global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/us_weighing_global_limits_ai_exports/ Source: The Register Title: Biden reportedly weighs global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz Feedly Summary: China faces outright ban while others vie for Uncle Sam’s favor The Biden administration is reportedly weighing new limits in the ongoing US-China trade war, which would ban high-end AI accelerators to adversary…

  • Cloud Blog: How retailers are accelerating AI into production with NVIDIA and Google Cloud

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/retail/how-retailers-are-accelerating-ai-with-nvidia-and-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How retailers are accelerating AI into production with NVIDIA and Google Cloud Feedly Summary: Retailers have always moved quickly to connect and match the latest merchandise with customers’ needs. And the same way they carefully design every inch of their stores, the time and thought that goes into…

  • The Register: Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/powerschool_school_data/ Source: The Register Title: Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack Feedly Summary: Class act: Biz only serves 60M people across America, no biggie A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers’ personal data – including some…

  • Hacker News: Apple’s new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit

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    Source URL: https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/08/apple-new-artificial-intelligence-rewords-scam-messages-look-legitimate/ Source: Hacker News Title: Apple’s new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Apple’s AI features that rephrase and prioritize notifications, highlighting concerns that these functionalities may inadvertently enhance the likelihood of users falling prey to…

  • The Register: Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bugs under active exploit

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/mitel_0_day_oracle_rce_under_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bugs under active exploit Feedly Summary: 3 CVEs added to CISA’s catalog Cybercriminals are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Mitel MiCollab, including a zero-day flaw, alongside a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server that has been exploited for at least…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/phi-4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/8/phi-4/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/phi-4 Feedly Summary: microsoft/phi-4 Here’s the official release of Microsoft’s Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably…