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  • The Register: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/microsoft_analog_optical_computer/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype Feedly Summary: Good for solving finance and clinical problems… and AI Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology’s capabilities.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Schneier on Security: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/gpt-4o-mini-falls-for-psychological-manipulation.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation Feedly Summary: Interesting experiment: To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk and giving directions for how to synthesize lidocaine. The researchers created experimental…

  • The Register: Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/uk_schools_intradev_breach/ Source: The Register Title: Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust Feedly Summary: Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach A major UK education trust has warned staff that their personal information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on software developer Intradev in August.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Slashdot: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney For Copyright Infringement

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/04/2236226/warner-bros-discovery-sues-midjourney-for-copyright-infringement Source: Slashdot Title: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney For Copyright Infringement Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Warner Bros. Discovery has raised significant legal concerns by filing a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the AI image generator is unlawfully using its intellectual property to create images of iconic characters.…

  • The Register: Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/unknown_miscreants_snooping_around_sitecore/ Source: The Register Title: Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys Feedly Summary: You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch Unknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing EmbeddingGemma

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…

  • Cloud Blog: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/agent-factory-recap-keith-ballinger-on-ai-the-future-of-development-and-vibe-coding/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding Feedly Summary: In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Vlad Kolesnikov and I were joined by Keith Ballinger, VP and General Manager at Google Cloud, for a deep dive into the transformative future…

  • Gemini: CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks at the White House AI Education Taskforce event

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    Source URL: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/ai-education-efforts/ Source: Gemini Title: CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks at the White House AI Education Taskforce event Feedly Summary: Google is offering Gemini for Education to American high schools, and committing $150 million in grants to support AI education and digital wellbeing. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s initiative to offer Gemini for…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unauthorized-issuance-of-certificates-for-1-1-1-1/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1 Feedly Summary: Unauthorized TLS certificates were issued for 1.1.1.1 by a Certification Authority without permission from Cloudflare. These rogue certificates have now been revoked. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a serious incident involving…

  • Cloud Blog: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-baseten-achieves-better-cost-performance-for-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too) Feedly Summary: Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers,…