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  • The Register: Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/salesforce_llm_agents_benchmark/ Source: The Register Title: Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests Feedly Summary: 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.… AI Summary and…

  • Slashdot: ‘Ghost’ Students are Enrolling in US Colleges Just to Steal Financial Aid

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/14/0329224/ghost-students-are-enrolling-in-us-colleges-just-to-steal-financial-aid?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Ghost’ Students are Enrolling in US Colleges Just to Steal Financial Aid Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the rising issue of financial aid fraud in online education, driven by the use of AI chatbots that impersonate students to collect financial aid. The U.S.…

  • Slashdot: Chinese AI Companies Dodge US Chip Curbs Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/06/13/2134246/chinese-ai-companies-dodge-us-chip-curbs-flying-suitcases-of-hard-drives-abroad?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese AI Companies Dodge US Chip Curbs Flying Suitcases of Hard Drives Abroad Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the evolving strategies employed by Chinese AI companies to circumvent U.S. restrictions on high-end AI technology sales, particularly focusing on advanced chips essential for AI…

  • The Register: Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/cloud_costs_ai_inferencing/ Source: The Register Title: Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers Feedly Summary: Please insert another million dollars to continue Broader AI adoption by enterprise customers is being hindered by the complexity of trying to forecast inferencing costs amid a fear being saddled with excessive bills for cloud services.……

  • The Register: Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/apple_fixes_zeroclick_exploit_underpinning/ Source: The Register Title: Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks Feedly Summary: Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent Apple has updated its iOS/iPadOS 18.3.1 documentation, confirming it introduced fixes for the zero-click vulnerability used to infect journalists with Paragon’s…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-service-outage-june-12-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025 Feedly Summary: Multiple Cloudflare services, including Workers KV, Access, WARP and the Cloudflare dashboard, experienced an outage for up to 2 hours and 28 minutes on June 12, 2025. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This document outlines a significant service…

  • The Register: Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/cisa_simplehelp_flaw_exploit_warning/ Source: The Register Title: Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks Feedly Summary: Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers’ customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote…

  • The Register: Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/google_cloud_nvidia_blackwell_vms/ Source: The Register Title: Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs Feedly Summary: Baby got Blackwell GPUs Google Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.… AI…