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  • Slashdot: What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving?

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/0623242/what-happens-if-ai-coding-keeps-improving?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rising significance of generative AI tools in coding, highlighting that tools like Cursor and Windsurf significantly reduce human oversight in software development. It notes the increasing integration of AI in…

  • Slashdot: Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/2112201/is-everyone-using-ai-to-cheat-their-way-through-college?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the concerning trend of college students utilizing generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, to cheat on assignments and exams, raising ethical questions about the use of AI in educational…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support Feedly Summary: This llama.cpp server vision support via libmtmd pull request – via Hacker News – was merged earlier today. The PR finally adds full support for vision models to the excellent llama.cpp project. It’s documented on this page, but the…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/9/gemini-implicit-caching/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching I just spotted a cacheTokensDetails key in the token usage JSON while running a long chain of prompts against Gemini 2.5 Flash – despite not configuring caching myself: {“cachedContentTokenCount": 200658, "promptTokensDetails":…

  • Slashdot: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88%

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0113217/alibabas-zerosearch-teaches-ai-to-search-without-search-engines-cuts-training-costs-by-88?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88% Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alibaba Group’s “ZeroSearch” technique showcases an innovative approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to develop search capabilities without relying on external search engines, demonstrating significant cost…

  • Scott Logic: New Tools, New Flow: The Cognitive Shift of AI-Powered Coding

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/08/new-tools-new-flow-the-cognitive-shift-of-ai-powered-coding.html Source: Scott Logic Title: New Tools, New Flow: The Cognitive Shift of AI-Powered Coding Feedly Summary: Adopting AI-powered developer tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT is a challenging yet rewarding journey that requires time, experimentation, and a shift in how developers approach their workflows. This post explores why these tools are hard…

  • The Register: Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/08/google_gemini_update_prevents_disabling/ Source: The Register Title: Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors Feedly Summary: ‘I’m sorry, I can’t help with that’ Google’s latest update to its Gemini family of large language models appears to have broken the controls for configuring safety settings, breaking applications that require lowered guardrails,…

  • 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…