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  • Slashdot: Google’s New Security Project ‘OSS Rebuild’ Tackles Package Supply Chain Verification

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/28/0254233/googles-new-security-project-oss-rebuild-tackles-package-supply-chain-verification?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s New Security Project ‘OSS Rebuild’ Tackles Package Supply Chain Verification Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s Open Source Security Team has launched a project called OSS Rebuild aimed at enhancing security and transparency in open-source package ecosystems. This initiative focuses on automating the reconstruction of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/mistral-environmental-standard/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI Feedly Summary: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI Mistral have released environmental impact numbers for their largest model, Mistral Large 2, in more detail than I have seen from any of the other large AI…

  • Wired: X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/x-data-center-fire-in-oregon-started-inside-power-cabinet-authorities-say/ Source: Wired Title: X Data Center Fire in Oregon Started Inside Power Cabinet, Authorities Say Feedly Summary: Generative AI has put data centers under the spotlight, and surging electricity needs could increase risk of fires. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The surge in data center electricity needs due to generative AI…

  • The Register: AWS slaps usage caps on Kiro as AI editor preview proves too popular for its own good

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/aws_kiro_usage_cap/ Source: The Register Title: AWS slaps usage caps on Kiro as AI editor preview proves too popular for its own good Feedly Summary: ‘Actually not terrible’ says industry watcher Corey Quinn – but pricing plans have disappeared AWS has introduced daily usage limits and a user waitlist for Kiro, its preview spec-driven…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Voxtral

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/voxtral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Voxtral Feedly Summary: Voxtral Mistral released their first audio-input models yesterday: Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini. These state‑of‑the‑art speech understanding models are available in two sizes—a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache…

  • Slashdot: CoreWeave Data Center To Double City’s Power Needs

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/2337208/coreweave-data-center-to-double-citys-power-needs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CoreWeave Data Center To Double City’s Power Needs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The expansion of CoreWeave’s data center in Denton, Texas, highlights the significant strain that AI workloads impose on local power supplies, prompting infrastructure upgrades and raising compliance challenges. This scenario exemplifies the intersection…

  • The Register: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/climate_change_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Datacenters feeling the heat as climate risk boils over Feedly Summary: A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants Many of the world’s top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns…

  • The Register: AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/amd_tsa_side_channel/ Source: The Register Title: AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs Feedly Summary: Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a ‘critical’ overall threat – patch accordingly AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead…