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  • The Register: Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/23/infosec_news_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Former US Army Sergeant pleads guilty after amateurish attempt at selling secrets to China Feedly Summary: PLUS: 5.4M healthcare records leak; AI makes Spam harder to spot; Many nasty Linux vulns; and more Infosec in brief A former US Army sergeant has admitted he attempted to sell classified…

  • Slashdot: How the Music Industry is Building the Tech to Hunt Down AI-Generated Songs

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    Source URL: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/06/22/1747250/how-the-music-industry-is-building-the-tech-to-hunt-down-ai-generated-songs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How the Music Industry is Building the Tech to Hunt Down AI-Generated Songs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses ongoing efforts to create traceability for generative music through advanced detection systems. These systems, which are being integrated within the entire music production and distribution…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My First Open Source AI Generated Library

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/my-first-open-source-ai-generated-library/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Feedly Summary: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Armin Ronacher had Claude and Claude Code do almost all of the work in building, testing, packaging and publishing a new Python library based on his design: It wrote ~1100 lines…

  • Slashdot: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/21/1844252/what-are-the-carbon-costs-of-asking-an-ai-a-question?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: What are the Carbon Costs of Asking an AI a Question? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides insights into the environmental impact of using artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on energy consumption and carbon costs. It highlights how energy usage varies between AI models and…

  • Slashdot: SoftBank’s Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2212217/softbanks-son-pitches-1-trillion-arizona-ai-hub?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: SoftBank’s Son Pitches $1 Trillion Arizona AI Hub Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses SoftBank Group’s founder Masayoshi Son’s initiative to create a $1 trillion industrial complex in Arizona focusing on robotics and artificial intelligence manufacturing. This venture is tied to discussions with TSMC…

  • Slashdot: BBC Threatens Legal Action Against Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2022200/bbc-threatens-legal-action-against-perplexity-ai-over-content-scraping?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: BBC Threatens Legal Action Against Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The BBC is taking legal action against Perplexity AI for allegedly using its content without permission to train AI models. This situation highlights the ongoing tensions between AI technology development and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

  • The Register: New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/github_begins_enforcing_premium_request/ Source: The Register Title: New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers Feedly Summary: Welcome to bill shock, AI style Microsoft’s GitHub this week said paying GitHub Copilot customers will now face monthly limits on certain types of high-powered AI requests, and will have to pay more if they want…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…