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  • Slashdot: Commissioner of Canada Elections Will ‘Explore the Use’ of AI

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/14/1610236/commissioner-of-canada-elections-will-explore-the-use-of-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Commissioner of Canada Elections Will ‘Explore the Use’ of AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections (OCCE) is exploring the use of AI and emerging technologies to enhance its operations and tackle electoral challenges. This initiative comes amid rising…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: Small Action Models Are the Future of AI Agents

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/ai-skills-inversion/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: Small Action Models Are the Future of AI Agents Feedly Summary: 2025 is the year of agents, and the key capability of agents is calling tools. When using Claude Code, I can tell the AI to sift through a newsletter, find all the links to startups, verify they…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/ai-elections-democracy.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy Feedly Summary: Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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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…

  • Slashdot: Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/16/2138230/walmart-prepares-for-a-future-where-ai-shops-for-consumers Source: Slashdot Title: Walmart Prepares for a Future Where AI Shops for Consumers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Walmart’s advancements in developing AI agents for autonomous shopping, aiming to lead in agentic commerce alongside competitors like Visa and PayPal. It highlights a significant shift in consumer…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Analyzing CVE-2025-31191: A macOS security-scoped bookmarks-based sandbox escape

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/01/analyzing-cve-2025-31191-a-macos-security-scoped-bookmarks-based-sandbox-escape/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Analyzing CVE-2025-31191: A macOS security-scoped bookmarks-based sandbox escape Feedly Summary: Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability in macOS that could allow specially crafted codes to escape the App Sandbox and run unrestricted on the system. We shared our findings with Apple and a fix was released for this vulnerability,…