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  • Slashdot: Citizen Lab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US Authoritarian Descent

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/06/228248/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Citizen Lab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US Authoritarian Descent Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text concerns Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, who is alerting the cybersecurity community to the increasing fusion of technology and authoritarianism, emphasizing the role of Big Tech in this…

  • Slashdot: Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’

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    Source URL: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/235206/disney-scrapped-deepfakes-for-moana-and-tron-to-avoid-bad-publicity Source: Slashdot Title: Disney Scrapped Deepfakes For Moana and Tron To Avoid ‘Bad Publicity’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Disney’s recent decision to abandon plans for using deepfake technology in its projects, including Moana and Tron: Ares, highlights escalating concerns about the ramifications of AI in creative content. The…

  • Slashdot: Hyundai To Help Build Nuclear-Powered Datacenter In Texas

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/2218225/hyundai-to-help-build-nuclear-powered-datacenter-in-texas?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hyundai To Help Build Nuclear-Powered Datacenter In Texas Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Fermi America is set to construct a massive AI datacenter complex in Amarillo, Texas, powered by nuclear energy, marking a significant development in the integration of AI and energy infrastructure. With an ambitious…

  • Cloud Blog: How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/mlb-delivers-real-time-data-to-fans/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Major League Baseball (MLB) delivers data in real time to millions of fans, apps, and broadcasters — tracking everything from pitch speeds to player positions. To keep pace, the…

  • Slashdot: Disney Struggles With How to Use AI – While Retaining Copyrights and Avoiding Legal Issues

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    Source URL: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/0432213/disney-struggles-with-how-to-use-ai—while-retaining-copyrights-and-avoiding-legal-issues Source: Slashdot Title: Disney Struggles With How to Use AI – While Retaining Copyrights and Avoiding Legal Issues Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Disney is grappling with the integration of AI technology in its film production, particularly concerning the use of deepfakes for creating a digital double of Dwayne…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/privacy-design/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences Feedly Summary: ChatGPT just removed their “make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • The Register: AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/meta_ai_investments/ Source: The Register Title: AI is contributing to Meta’s growth – just not the kind anyone cares about Feedly Summary: Good old machine learning, not LLMs, are what’s really paying for Zuck’s genAI splurge Believe it or not, Meta’s AI investments made a meaningful difference to its advertising business in Q2 —…