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  • The Register: UK’s first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/uk_facial_recognition/ Source: The Register Title: UK’s first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London Feedly Summary: As if living in Croydon wasn’t bad enough The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Function calling with Gemma

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/26/function-calling-with-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Function calling with Gemma Feedly Summary: Function calling with Gemma Google’s Gemma 3 model (the 27B variant is particularly capable, I’ve been trying it out via Ollama) supports function calling exclusively through prompt engineering. The official documentation describes two recommended prompts – both of them suggest that…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Public Sector takes center stage at Next ‘25 – Sessions you can’t miss

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-public-sector-takes-center-stage-at-next-25-sessions-you-cant-miss/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Public Sector takes center stage at Next ‘25 – Sessions you can’t miss Feedly Summary: Google is leading a new era of innovation across the public sector. Google Cloud Next ‘25, taking place in Las Vegas from April 9-11, 2025, is the ideal opportunity to see firsthand…

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing 4o Image Generation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/introducing-4o-image-generation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing 4o Image Generation Feedly Summary: Introducing 4o Image Generation When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o back in May 2024 one of the most exciting features was true multi-modality in that it could both input and output audio and images. The “o" stood for "omni", and the image…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/gemini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces Feedly Summary: There’s a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems". It’s already sat at the top of the LM Arena…

  • Cloud Blog: Anyscale powers AI compute for any workload using Google Compute Engine

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/anyscale-powers-ai-compute-for-any-workload-using-google-compute-engine/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Anyscale powers AI compute for any workload using Google Compute Engine Feedly Summary: Over the past decade, AI has evolved at a breakneck pace, turning from a futuristic dream into a tool now accessible to everyone. One of the technologies that opened up this new era of AI…