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  • Slashdot: Can an MCP-Powered AI Client Automatically Hack a Web Server?

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/0027236/can-an-mcp-powered-ai-client-automatically-hack-a-web-server?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Can an MCP-Powered AI Client Automatically Hack a Web Server? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses potential security implications arising from the use of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) in AI technology, particularly concerning how it can be exploited for malicious purposes. The emergence…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: The IT help desk kindly requests you read this newsletter

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/the-it-help-desk-kindly-requests-you-read-this-newsletter/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: The IT help desk kindly requests you read this newsletter Feedly Summary: How do attackers exploit authority bias to manipulate victims? Martin shares proactive strategies to protect yourself and others in this must-read edition of the Threat Source newsletter. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text…

  • Cloud Blog: How Looker’s semantic layer enables trusted AI for business intelligence

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/how-lookers-semantic-layer-enhances-gen-ai-trustworthiness/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Looker’s semantic layer enables trusted AI for business intelligence Feedly Summary: In the AI era, where data fuels intelligent applications and drives business decisions, demand for accurate and consistent data insights has never been higher. However, the complexity and sheer volume of data coupled with the diversity…

  • Wired: Silence Speaks Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/silence-speaks-deaf-ai-signing/ Source: Wired Title: Silence Speaks Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf Feedly Summary: New technology from British startup Silence Speaks enables an AI-generated sign language avatar to effectively give the deaf and hard of hearing an interpreter in their pocket. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Saying "hi" to Microsoft’s Phi-4-reasoning

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/phi-4-reasoning/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Saying "hi" to Microsoft’s Phi-4-reasoning Feedly Summary: Microsoft released a new sub-family of models a few days ago: Phi-4 reasoning. They introduced them in this blog post celebrating a year since the release of Phi-3: Today, we are excited to introduce Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning – marking…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/llm-video-frames/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) Feedly Summary: The new llm-video-frames plugin can turn a video file into a sequence of JPEG frames and feed them directly into a long context vision LLM such…

  • Cloud Blog: Build live voice-driven agentic applications with Vertex AI Gemini Live API

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-voice-driven-applications-with-live-api/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build live voice-driven agentic applications with Vertex AI Gemini Live API Feedly Summary: Across industries, enterprises need efficient and proactive solutions. Imagine frontline professionals using voice commands and visual input to diagnose issues, access vital information, and initiate processes in real-time. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Live API empowers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

  • Slashdot: US National Security Official Caught Using ‘Less-Secure Signal App Knockoff’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/03/0427226/us-national-security-official-caught-using-less-secure-signal-app-knockoff?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US National Security Official Caught Using ‘Less-Secure Signal App Knockoff’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security incident involving U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz using a modified version of the Signal app, which jeopardized the integrity of secure communications by allowing message…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/what-we-missed-with-sycophancy/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy Feedly Summary: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy I criticized OpenAI’s initial post about their recent ChatGPT sycophancy rollback as being “relatively thin" so I’m delighted that they have followed it with a much more in-depth explanation of what…