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  • Hacker News: Gemini beats everyone on new OCR benchmark

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06445 Source: Hacker News Title: Gemini beats everyone on new OCR benchmark Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new open-source benchmark designed to evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in dynamic video contexts. This is particularly relevant for AI, as it highlights advancements…

  • The Register: Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/chinese_ai_baidu_alibaba/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal Feedly Summary: New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major…

  • Hacker News: Google fumbles Gemini Super Bowl ad’s cheese statistic

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    Source URL: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-fumbles-gemini-super-bowl-ads-cheese-statistic Source: Hacker News Title: Google fumbles Gemini Super Bowl ad’s cheese statistic Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving Google’s Gemini AI erroneously claiming Gouda cheese constitutes 50-60% of global cheese consumption underscores critical issues in AI-generated content, particularly regarding accuracy and misinformation. This scenario reveals the…

  • Alerts: CISA Releases Twenty Industrial Control Systems Advisories

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/13/cisa-releases-twenty-industrial-control-systems-advisories Source: Alerts Title: CISA Releases Twenty Industrial Control Systems Advisories Feedly Summary: CISA released twenty Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on February 13, 2025. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-25-044-01 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU Family ICSA-25-044-02 Siemens SIMATIC ICSA-25-044-03 Siemens SIPROTEC 5 ICSA-25-044-04…

  • Slashdot: AI Summaries Turn Real News Into Nonsense, BBC Finds

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/2139233/ai-summaries-turn-real-news-into-nonsense-bbc-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Summaries Turn Real News Into Nonsense, BBC Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The BBC study reveals that AI news summarization tools, including prominent models from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, frequently generate inaccurate or misleading summaries, with 51% of responses showing significant issues. The study…

  • Alerts: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/12/cisa-and-fbi-warn-malicious-cyber-actors-using-buffer-overflow-vulnerabilities-compromise-software Source: Alerts Title: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software Feedly Summary: CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Secure by Design Alert, Eliminating Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as part of their cooperative Secure by Design Alert series—an ongoing series aimed…

  • Hacker News: Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

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    Source URL: https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/ Source: Hacker News Title: Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses an interesting method of encoding data using Unicode characters, specifically through the application of variation selectors. This approach demonstrates a theoretical ability to embed arbitrary data within standard text representations,…

  • Slashdot: Google Chrome May Soon Use ‘AI’ To Replace Compromised Passwords

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/11/1952248/google-chrome-may-soon-use-ai-to-replace-compromised-passwords?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Chrome May Soon Use ‘AI’ To Replace Compromised Passwords Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s Chrome browser is set to enhance security by introducing an AI-driven feature that detects compromised passwords and automatically generates stronger replacements. This upgrade aims to streamline the process of password…