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  • Slashdot: Education Giant Pearson Hit By Cyberattack Exposing Customer Data

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0146239/education-giant-pearson-hit-by-cyberattack-exposing-customer-data Source: Slashdot Title: Education Giant Pearson Hit By Cyberattack Exposing Customer Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Pearson, a major educational organization, experienced a cyberattack resulting in the theft of corporate and customer information. The breach is significant due to the scale of the organization and the sensitivity of…

  • Slashdot: IRS Hopes To Replace Fired Enforcement Workers With AI

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0138207/irs-hopes-to-replace-fired-enforcement-workers-with-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: IRS Hopes To Replace Fired Enforcement Workers With AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The IRS plans to leverage AI to enhance tax collection efficiency amidst significant staffing cuts. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent emphasized that advancements in IT and AI could counterbalance reductions in personnel while…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Claude’s system prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/8/claudes-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Claude’s system prompt Feedly Summary: If asked to write poetry, Claude avoids using hackneyed imagery or metaphors or predictable rhyming schemes. — Claude’s system prompt, via Drew Breunig Tags: drew-breunig, prompt-engineering, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text pertains to…

  • Slashdot: Cloudflare CEO: AI Is Killing the Business Model of the Web

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/08/1952225/cloudflare-ceo-ai-is-killing-the-business-model-of-the-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cloudflare CEO: AI Is Killing the Business Model of the Web Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, highlighted significant concerns regarding the future of the web’s economic model due to the rise of AI, particularly in the context of content creation…

  • 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: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/a-closer-look-at-earth-engine-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced a major step forward in geospatial analytics: Earth Engine in BigQuery. This new capability unlocks Earth Engine raster analytics directly in BigQuery, making advanced analysis of geospatial datasets derived from…

  • Cloud Blog: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/search-indexes-with-column-granularity-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance Feedly Summary: BigQuery delivers optimized search/lookup query performance by efficiently pruning irrelevant files. However, in some cases, additional column information is required for search indexes to further optimize query performance. To help, we recently announced indexing with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/anthropic-api-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Feedly Summary: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Anthropic’s web search (presumably still powered by Brave) is now also available through their API, in the shape of a new web search tool called web_search_20250305. You can specify a maximum…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-prices.com

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/llm-prices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-prices.com Feedly Summary: llm-prices.com I’ve been maintaining a simple LLM pricing calculator since October last year. I finally decided to split it out to its own domain name (previously it was hosted at tools.simonwillison.net/llm-prices), running on Cloudflare Pages. The site runs out of my simonw/llm-prices GitHub repository.…