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  • Hacker News: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience

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    Source URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/21/the-canva-outage-another-tale-of-saturation-and-resilience/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident at Canva, detailed by Brendan Humphries, highlights a series of interconnected failures that led to a significant service outage. Notably, a CDN misconfiguration and an API gateway performance…

  • Slashdot: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/10/0056202/see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a significant privacy concern involving popular apps that are being exploited to harvest sensitive location data through the advertising ecosystem. This data, which is aggregated by rogue…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/ai-predictions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends Feedly Summary: The Oxide and Friends podcast has an annual tradition of asking guests to share their predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years. Here’s 2022, 2023 and 2024. This…

  • Rekt: Orange Finance – Rekt

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    Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/orange-finance-rekt Source: Rekt Title: Orange Finance – Rekt Feedly Summary: First significant hack of 2025. Orange Finance got squeezed for $843.5k after their ‘multi-sig’ turned out to be uni-sig. Their contract is no longer Orange, their security was never golden. Another private key leaks, another protocol rots. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Wired: Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/texas-social-media-investigation-children-privacy/ Source: Wired Title: Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe Feedly Summary: Texas has become a leading enforcer of internet rules. Its latest probe includes some platforms that privacy experts describe as unusual suspects. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading an…

  • Cloud Blog: Avoid global outages by partitioning cloud applications to reduce blast radius

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/how-to-partition-cloud-applications-to-avoid-global-outages/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Avoid global outages by partitioning cloud applications to reduce blast radius Feedly Summary: Cloud applications like Google Workspace provide benefits such as collaboration, availability, security, and cost-efficiency. However, for cloud application developers, there’s a fundamental conflict between achieving high availability and the constant evolution of cloud applications. Changes…

  • Hacker News: Agents Are Not Enough

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    Source URL: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2412.16241 Source: Hacker News Title: Agents Are Not Enough Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the evolution and limitations of AI agents, emphasizing that while advancements exist, they are not sufficient for widespread success. It proposes a new ecosystem that integrates agents, user representations (Sims), and Assistants,…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Rolls Back Its Bing Image Creator Model After Users Complain of Degraded Quality

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/08/2252248/microsoft-rolls-back-its-bing-image-creator-model-after-users-complain-of-degraded-quality?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Rolls Back Its Bing Image Creator Model After Users Complain of Degraded Quality Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has reverted its Bing Image Creator to an earlier version of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 due to significant complaints about degraded image quality from users. The transition…

  • The Register: Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/powerschool_school_data/ Source: The Register Title: Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack Feedly Summary: Class act: Biz only serves 60M people across America, no biggie A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers’ personal data – including some…