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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties

Jul 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/glm-45/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Feedly Summary: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Another day, another significant new open weight model release from a Chinese frontier AI lab. This time it’s Z.ai – who rebranded (at least in English) from Zhipu AI a few months ago.…

Slashdot: VPN Downloads Surge in UK as New Age-Verification Rules Take Effect

Jul 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/27/1957211/vpn-downloads-surge-in-uk-as-new-age-verification-rules-take-effect Source: Slashdot Title: VPN Downloads Surge in UK as New Age-Verification Rules Take Effect Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The surge in signups for Proton VPN following the implementation of the UK’s age verification law indicates a growing concern regarding privacy among users. The law’s requirement for explicit content…

Wired: A Premium Luggage Service’s Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User—Including Diplomats

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/luggage-service-web-bugs-exposed-travel-plans-users-diplomats-airportr/ Source: Wired Title: A Premium Luggage Service’s Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User—Including Diplomats Feedly Summary: Security flaws in Airportr, a door-to-door luggage checking service used by 10 airlines, let hackers access user data and even gain privileges that would have let them redirect or steal luggage. AI Summary…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last

Jul 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/oss-rebuild/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last Feedly Summary: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last Major news on the Reproducible Builds front: the Google Security team have announced OSS Rebuild, their project to provide build attestations for open source packages released through the NPM,…

Cloud Blog: Beyond Convenience: Exposing the Risks of VMware vSphere Active Directory Integration

Jul 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/vsphere-active-directory-integration-risks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Beyond Convenience: Exposing the Risks of VMware vSphere Active Directory Integration Feedly Summary: Written by: Stuart Carrera, Brian Meyer Executive Summary Broadcom’s VMware vSphere product remains a popular choice for private cloud virtualization, underpinning critical infrastructure. Far from fading, organizations continue to rely heavily on vSphere for stability…

Slashdot: Amazon Buys Bee AI Wearable That Listens To Everything You Say

Jul 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/22/2116255/amazon-buys-bee-ai-wearable-that-listens-to-everything-you-say?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon Buys Bee AI Wearable That Listens To Everything You Say Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Amazon’s acquisition of Bee highlights a significant step in the intersection of AI technology and privacy measures, particularly through the development of an AI-powered wearable. This move has implications for…

Cloud Blog: Graduating the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First cohort in the UK

Jul 21, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/graduating-the-google-for-startups-accelerator-ai-first/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Graduating the inaugural Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First cohort in the UK Feedly Summary: The Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK has celebrated the graduation of its latest cohort of AI startups. The 12-week hybrid program, designed for rapid growth, began in London in April and…

Cloud Blog: How to integrate your Cloud SQL for MySQL database with Vertex AI & vector search

Jul 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/integrate-your-cloud-sql-with-vertex-ai-and-vector-search/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to integrate your Cloud SQL for MySQL database with Vertex AI & vector search Feedly Summary: Search is a critical component of many modern applications – whether searching for products in an online storefront, finding solutions to your customers’ support cases, or building the perfect playlist. But…

Cloud Blog: Implementing High-Performance LLM Serving on GKE: An Inference Gateway Walkthrough

Jul 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/implementing-high-performance-llm-serving-on-gke-an-inference-gateway-walkthrough/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Implementing High-Performance LLM Serving on GKE: An Inference Gateway Walkthrough Feedly Summary: The excitement around open Large Language Models like Gemma, Llama, Mistral, and Qwen is evident, but developers quickly hit a wall. How do you deploy them effectively at scale? Traditional load balancing algorithms fall short, as…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions

Jul 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/musks-latest-grok/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions Feedly Summary: Musk’s latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul’s views before answering questions I got quoted a couple of times in this story about Grok searching for tweets from:elonmusk by Matt O’Brien for the…

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