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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/project-memory/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory Feedly Summary: ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory The feature I’ve most wanted from ChatGPT’s memory feature (the newer version of memory that automatically includes relevant details from summarized prior conversations) just landed: With project-only memory enabled, ChatGPT can use other conversations in that project…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek 3.1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/22/deepseek-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek 3.1 Feedly Summary: DeepSeek 3.1 The latest model from DeepSeek, a 685B monster (like DeepSeek v3 before it) but this time it’s a hybrid reasoning model. DeepSeek claim: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think achieves comparable answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly. Drew Breunig points out that their benchmarks…

  • The Register: Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/data_io_ransomware_attack_temporarily/ Source: The Register Title: Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown Feedly Summary: Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16…

  • The Register: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/ Source: The Register Title: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Feedly Summary: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding…

  • Cloud Blog: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/gemini-cloud-assist-investigations-performs-root-cause-analysis/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis Feedly Summary: Debugging in a complex, distributed cloud environment can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. The sheer volume of data, intertwined dependencies, and ephemeral issues make traditional troubleshooting methods time-consuming and often reactive.…

  • The Register: Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/apcs_breach/ Source: The Register Title: Criminal background checker APCS faces data breach Feedly Summary: The attack first affected an upstream provider of bespoke software Exclusive A leading UK provider of criminal record checks for employers is handling a data breach stemming from a third-party development company.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • The Register: Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/clickfix_report/ Source: The Register Title: Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware Feedly Summary: ClickFix tricks Microsoft’s security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s security…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Agents Need Data Integrity

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/ai-agents-need-data-integrity.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Agents Need Data Integrity Feedly Summary: Think of the Web as a digital territory with its own social contract. In 2014, Tim Berners-Lee called for a “Magna Carta for the Web” to restore the balance of power between individuals and institutions. This mirrors the original charter’s…

  • The Register: Don’t cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/ftc_us_censorship/ Source: The Register Title: Don’t cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms Feedly Summary: FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in The head of America’s consumer watchdog has issued a stark warning to some of the biggest names in the tech sphere –…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-august-21-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025 Feedly Summary: On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in AWS us-east-1 caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and us-east-1. In this post, we explain the details. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident…