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Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

SecurityBrief New Zealand: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://securitybrief.co.nz/story/cloud-security-alliance-launches-valid-ai-ted-tool-for-star-checks Source: SecurityBrief New Zealand Title: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks Feedly Summary: Cloud Security Alliance launches Valid-AI-ted tool for STAR checks AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced Valid-AI-ted, an AI-enhanced tool for automating quality checks of STAR Level 1 self-assessments for…

Slashdot: Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/1613206/google-is-using-youtube-videos-to-train-its-ai-video-generator?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google is Using YouTube Videos To Train Its AI Video Generator Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Google is leveraging its vast collection of YouTube videos to enhance its AI models, specifically Gemini and the Veo 3 generator, signaling a major development in AI training methodologies. This…

Slashdot: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/165237/reasoning-llms-deliver-value-today-so-agi-hype-doesnt-matter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Reasoning LLMs Deliver Value Today, So AGI Hype Doesn’t Matter Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The commentary by Simon Willison highlights a debate surrounding the effectiveness and applicability of large language models (LLMs), particularly in the context of their limitations and the recent critiques by various…

The Register: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/uk_gov_asks_university_boffins/ Source: The Register Title: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash Feedly Summary: Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking ‘ops’ people Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries?

Jun 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/science/math-ai-darpa.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries? Feedly Summary: Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new initiative by the…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/context-rot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News Feedly Summary: They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

The Register: Asana’s cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/asana_mcp_server_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Asana’s cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem Feedly Summary: New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations’ data, and the experimental…

Cloud Blog: What’s in an ASP? Creative Phishing Attack on Prominent Academics and Critics of Russia

Jun 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/creative-phishing-academics-critics-of-russia/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: What’s in an ASP? Creative Phishing Attack on Prominent Academics and Critics of Russia Feedly Summary: Written by: Gabby Roncone, Wesley Shields In cooperation with external partners, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed a Russia state-sponsored cyber threat actor impersonating the U.S. Department of State. From at least…

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