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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,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Unveiling RIFT: Enhancing Rust malware analysis through pattern matching

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/06/27/unveiling-rift-enhancing-rust-malware-analysis-through-pattern-matching/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Unveiling RIFT: Enhancing Rust malware analysis through pattern matching Feedly Summary: Threat actors are adopting Rust for malware development. RIFT, an open-source tool, helps reverse engineers analyze Rust malware, solving challenges in the security industry. The post Unveiling RIFT: Enhancing Rust malware analysis through pattern matching appeared…

  • Cloud Blog: Tools Make an Agent: From Zero to Assistant with ADK

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/tools-make-an-agent-from-zero-to-assistant-with-adk/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Tools Make an Agent: From Zero to Assistant with ADK Feedly Summary: Imagine that you’re a project manager at QuantumRoast, a global coffee machine company. You help your teammates navigate a sea of engineering roadmaps, sudden strategy pivots (we’re doing matcha now!), and incoming tickets from customers— everything…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: New sandboxes from Cloudflare and Vercel

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/26/sandboxes/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New sandboxes from Cloudflare and Vercel Feedly Summary: Two interesting new products for running code in a sandbox today. Cloudflare launched their Containers product in open beta, and added a new Sandbox library for Cloudflare Workers that can run commands in a “secure, container-based environment": import {…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/new-objectref-data-type-brings-unstructured-data-into-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing Feedly Summary: Traditional data warehouses simply can’t keep up with today’s analytics workloads. That’s because today, most data that’s generated is both unstructured and multimodal (documents, audio files, images, and videos). With the complexity of cleaning and transforming…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/anthropic-training/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books Feedly Summary: Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books Major USA legal news for the AI industry today.…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Bags Key ‘Fair Use’ Win For AI Platforms, But Faces Trial Over Damages For Millions of Pirated Works

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/1519209/anthropic-bags-key-fair-use-win-for-ai-platforms-but-faces-trial-over-damages-for-millions-of-pirated-works?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Bags Key ‘Fair Use’ Win For AI Platforms, But Faces Trial Over Damages For Millions of Pirated Works Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A federal judge has partially ruled in favor of Anthropic regarding its use of copyrighted materials to train its Claude AI models,…