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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/12/ai-open-source-productivity/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity Feedly Summary: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity METR – for Model Evaluation & Threat Research – are a non-profit research institute founded by Beth Barnes, a former alignment researcher at…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/kimi-k2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Feedly Summary: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Colossal new open weights model release today from Moonshot AI, a two year old Chinese AI lab with a name inspired by Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. My HuggingFace storage calculator says the repository is 958.52 GB. It’s a…

  • Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/ Source: Wired Title: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’ Feedly Summary: Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…

  • Slashdot: XBOW’s AI-Powered Pentester Grabs Top Rank on HackerOne, Raises $75M to Grow Platform

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1847237/xbows-ai-powered-pentester-grabs-top-rank-on-hackerone-raises-75m-to-grow-platform Source: Slashdot Title: XBOW’s AI-Powered Pentester Grabs Top Rank on HackerOne, Raises $75M to Grow Platform Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of “Xbow,” an autonomous AI-powered penetration tester that has excelled in finding and reporting vulnerabilities in enterprise software. This innovation highlights the trend…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/faqs-about-ai-evals/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Feedly Summary: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar have been running a paid, cohort-based course on AI Evals For Engineers & PMs over the past few months. Here Hamel collects answers to…

  • Slashdot: Hacker With ‘Political Agenda’ Stole Data From Columbia, University Says

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/0012219/hacker-with-political-agenda-stole-data-from-columbia-university-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hacker With ‘Political Agenda’ Stole Data From Columbia, University Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The breach of Columbia University’s IT systems by a politically motivated hacker highlights significant vulnerabilities in higher education cybersecurity. This incident exposes highly sensitive data, including Social Security numbers and admissions…

  • Krebs on Security: Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/senator-chides-fbi-for-weak-advice-on-mobile-security/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security Feedly Summary: Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of…