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  • Wired: Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-ai-powered-scams/ Source: Wired Title: Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself Feedly Summary: The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means everything from emails to video calls can’t be trusted. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the increasing risk posed by the accessibility of advanced AI tools to…

  • Wired: You’re Not Ready for Quantum Cracks

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-quantum-cracks/ Source: Wired Title: You’re Not Ready for Quantum Cracks Feedly Summary: A quantum computer will likely one day be able to break the encryption protecting the world’s secrets. See how much faster such a machine could decrypt a password compared to a present-day supercomputer. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Schneier on Security: New Linux Vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/new-linux-vulnerabilities.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: New Linux Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: They’re interesting: Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive information. Tools like Apport and systemd-coredump are designed to handle crash reporting and core dumps in Linux…

  • The Register: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/self_improving_ai_cheat/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated Feedly Summary: Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Slashdot: Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption For Scientific Databases and Journals

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/172202/web-scraping-ai-bots-cause-disruption-for-scientific-databases-and-journals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption For Scientific Databases and Journals Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the impact of automated web-scraping bots on scientific databases and academic journals, driven by the demand for training data for AI models. This has led to significant service…

  • The Register: Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/02/asian_tech_news_roundup/ Source: The Register Title: Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank Feedly Summary: PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; Predicted APAC datacenter shortage; And more! Asia In Brief Intel and Japan’s SoftBank have reportedly teamed up to develop low-power memory for AI.… AI Summary and Description:…