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  • Slashdot: Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/2257245/browser-extensions-turn-nearly-1-million-browsers-into-website-scraping-bots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the alarming discovery of over 240 browser extensions that have exploited users’ browsers to scrape sensitive data without their consent. This incident highlights substantial privacy and security implications,…

  • The Register: How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/chatgpt_jailbreak_windows_keys/ Source: The Register Title: How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up Feedly Summary: No, really, those are the magic words A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the…

  • Slashdot: AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/1835230/amd-warns-of-new-meltdown-spectre-like-bugs-affecting-cpus Source: Slashdot Title: AMD Warns of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AMD has identified a newly discovered side-channel attack, known as the Transient Scheduler Attack (TSA), which poses a potential information disclosure risk across a variety of its chip models. Although the vulnerabilities…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: How to tap into natural language AI services using the Conversational Analytics API

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/use-conversational-analytics-api-for-natural-language-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to tap into natural language AI services using the Conversational Analytics API Feedly Summary: AI is making it easier than ever to get clear, reliable answers from your data. With intelligent tools like the Conversational Analytics API, powered by Gemini, you no longer need intricate systems to…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion for AI Education Training Programs

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/09/176219/microsoft-pledges-4-billion-for-ai-education-training-programs Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion for AI Education Training Programs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s recent commitment of over $4 billion aims to enhance AI education, promoting widespread access to AI training through its Microsoft Elevate Academy. This initiative is part of a larger movement involving…

  • The Register: AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/amd_tsa_side_channel/ Source: The Register Title: AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs Feedly Summary: Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a ‘critical’ overall threat – patch accordingly AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead…

  • Scott Logic: GenAI sustainability: a review of the 2025 numbers

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/07/09/genai-sustainability-a-review-of-the-2025-numbers.html Source: Scott Logic Title: GenAI sustainability: a review of the 2025 numbers Feedly Summary: A year after predicting GenAI’s sustainability crisis, the 2024/25 financial data tells a concerning story. OpenAI’s $10 billion revenue comes with $5 billion losses, whilst Anthropic burns $3-4 billion annually. With the sector consuming over $100 billion in…

  • The Register: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/anubis_fighting_the_llm_hordes/ Source: The Register Title: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers Feedly Summary: Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of ‘AI’ companies Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying…

  • Cloud Blog: Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-ml-timesfm-models-now-in-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Zero-shot forecasting in BigQuery with the TimesFM foundation model Feedly Summary: Accurate time-series forecasting is essential for many business scenarios such as planning, supply chain management, and resource allocation. BigQuery now embeds TimesFM, a state-of-the-art pre-trained model from Google Research, enabling powerful forecasting via the simple AI.FORECAST function.…