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  • Hacker News: AI ‘wingmen’ bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps

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    Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/08/ai-wingmen-bots-to-write-profiles-and-flirt-on-dating-apps Source: Hacker News Title: AI ‘wingmen’ bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The integration of AI on dating platforms poses significant ethical concerns regarding human authenticity, social skills, and mental health. Experts advocate for regulatory measures to ensure responsible AI…

  • Slashdot: Signal President Calls Out Agentic AI As Having ‘Profound’ Security and Privacy Issues

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/07/2310205/signal-president-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Signal President Calls Out Agentic AI As Having ‘Profound’ Security and Privacy Issues Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, cautioned at SXSW about the serious privacy and security threats posed by agentic AI, which requires extensive access to personal user data and…

  • Wired: DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/gsai-chatbot-1500-federal-workers/ Source: Wired Title: DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers Feedly Summary: Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The deployment of GSAi, a proprietary AI chatbot by the Department of Government Efficiency,…

  • Hacker News: Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills

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    Source URL: https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/study-large-language-models-still-lack-general-reasoning-skills Source: Hacker News Title: Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses research findings on the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4. It highlights the limitations of these models in understanding and solving complex analogy puzzles…

  • Cloud Blog: Meet Kubernetes History Inspector, a log visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubernetes-history-inspector-visualizes-cluster-logs/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Meet Kubernetes History Inspector, a log visualization tool for Kubernetes clusters Feedly Summary: Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform, is inherently a complex, distributed system. While it provides resilience and scalability, it can also introduce operational complexities, particularly when troubleshooting. Even with Kubernetes’ self-healing capabilities, identifying the root cause…

  • The Register: The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/badbox_botnet_returns/ Source: The Register Title: The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids Feedly Summary: Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral OCR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/mistral-ocr/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral OCR Feedly Summary: Mistral OCR New closed-source specialist OCR model by Mistral – you can feed it images or a PDF and it produces Markdown with optional embedded images. It’s available via their API, or it’s “available to self-host on a selective basis" for people with…

  • Cloud Blog: Chrome Enterprise improves work and personal profile separation and brings more advanced protections for unmanaged devices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/chrome-enterprise-improves-work-and-personal-profile-separation-and-brings-more-advanced-protections-for-unmanaged-devices/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Chrome Enterprise improves work and personal profile separation and brings more advanced protections for unmanaged devices Feedly Summary: For many employees, the browser has become where they spend the majority of their working day. As more work is being done on the web, IT and security teams continue…

  • The Register: Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI ‘Manhattan Project’ and get MAIM’d

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/schmidt_ai_superintelligence/ Source: The Register Title: Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI ‘Manhattan Project’ and get MAIM’d Feedly Summary: That’s Mutual Assured AI Malfunction in the race for superintelligence ANALYSIS Former Google chief Eric Schmidt says the US should refrain from pursuing a latter-day “Manhattan Project" to gain AI supremacy, as this will…