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Slashdot: Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots

Aug 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/0434221/illinois-bans-ai-therapy-joins-two-other-states-in-regulating-chatbots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses recent legislative actions in Illinois and other states to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy. This highlights growing concerns about the safety and…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers Feedly Summary: Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model – OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b – performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the one with the…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses

Aug 14, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-new-threat-horizons-details-evolving-risks-and-defenses/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, our Office of the CISO’s Bob Mechler and Anton Chuvakin dive into the key trends and evolving threats that we tracked in our…

Cloud Blog: How Keeta processes 11 million financial transactions per second with Spanner

Aug 14, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/how-blockchain-network-keeta-processes-11-million-transactions-per-second-with-spanner/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Keeta processes 11 million financial transactions per second with Spanner Feedly Summary: Keeta Network is a layer‑1 blockchain that unifies transactions across different blockchains and payment systems, eliminating the need for costly intermediaries, reducing fees, and enabling near‑instant settlements. By facilitating cross‑chain transactions and interoperability with existing…

Cloud Blog: The University of Hawaii is helping the state retain top talent with Google AI

Aug 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/the-university-of-hawaii-is-helping-the-state-retain-top-talent-with-google-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The University of Hawaii is helping the state retain top talent with Google AI Feedly Summary: As the Hawaiian Islands’ primary higher education resource, the University of Hawaii (UH) System faces a unique challenge among U.S. universities: many graduates–including those with deep family roots in Hawaii – are…

The Register: Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes

Aug 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/secure_chat_darling_matrix_admits/ Source: The Register Title: Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes Feedly Summary: Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity…

Slashdot: Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/2123206/nvidia-and-amd-to-pay-15-of-china-chip-sale-revenues-to-us-government?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay 15% of their revenue from certain chip sales to China to the U.S. government as part of an export licensing…

The Register: FedRAMP government cloud software approvals double under new program

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/fedramp_government_cloud_software_approvals/ Source: The Register Title: FedRAMP government cloud software approvals double under new program Feedly Summary: Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more The US Government’s process for certifying cloud services safe for official use has long been slow, but that’s no longer the…

Cloud Blog: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/how-yahoo-calendar-broke-free-from-hardware-queues-and-dba-bottlenecks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration…

AlgorithmWatch: The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers

Aug 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-revolution-exploitation-gig-workers/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: The AI Revolution Comes With the Exploitation of Gig Workers Feedly Summary: Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies manage the human work behind AI development. However, they face accusations of worker exploitation, underpayment and wage theft. Big tech companies benefit from this work model. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**:…

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