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  • The Register: That WhatsApp from an Israeli infosec expert could be a Iranian phish

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/that_whatsapp_from_an_israeli/ Source: The Register Title: That WhatsApp from an Israeli infosec expert could be a Iranian phish Feedly Summary: Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials The cyber-ops arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and…

  • Slashdot: Meta Beats Copyright Suit From Authors Over AI Training on Books

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/2127222/meta-beats-copyright-suit-from-authors-over-ai-training-on-books Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Beats Copyright Suit From Authors Over AI Training on Books Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses a significant court ruling regarding Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train its generative AI model, Llama. The ruling highlights the complexities of copyright law as it…

  • Cloud Blog: How to use Gemini 2.5 to fine-tune video outputs on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-to-fine-tune-video-outputs-using-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to use Gemini 2.5 to fine-tune video outputs on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Recently, we announced Gemini 2.5 is generally available on Vertex AI. As part of this update, tuning capabilities have extended beyond text outputs – now, you can tune image, audio, and video outputs on…

  • The Register: Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/23/experts_count_the_staggering_costs/ Source: The Register Title: Experts count staggering costs incurred by UK retail amid cyberattack hell Feedly Summary: Cyber Monitoring Centre issues first severity assessment since February launch Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of…

  • The Register: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/edb_enhances_analytics_in_postgresql/ Source: The Register Title: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons Feedly Summary: DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms PostgreSQL exponent EDB has enhanced its new data platform, claiming this will help bring transactional, analytical, and AI workloads into a…

  • 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…

  • The Register: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/uk_gov_asks_university_boffins/ Source: The Register Title: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash Feedly Summary: Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking ‘ops’ people Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

  • Wired: Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-daniel-rausch-alexa-plus/ Source: Wired Title: Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools Feedly Summary: From writing code to testing the new Alexa+, Amazon engineers used generative AI throughout the build process. We talk to Amazon’s Daniel Rausch about the next version of the voice assistant. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…