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  • Slashdot: ChatGPT Creates Phisher’s Paradise By Recommending the Wrong URLs for Major Companies

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/1912216/chatgpt-creates-phishers-paradise-by-recommending-the-wrong-urls-for-major-companies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT Creates Phisher’s Paradise By Recommending the Wrong URLs for Major Companies Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a flaw in the accuracy of AI-powered chatbots like GPT-4.1, which could create vulnerabilities for users and pose a security risk due to misinformation. This inaccuracy…

  • The Register: Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/02/postgresql_ondisk_database_encryption/ Source: The Register Title: Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption Feedly Summary: Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up database security. While PostgreSQL has steadily climbed in popularity – especially…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kevin Webb

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/1/kevin-webb/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kevin Webb Feedly Summary: One of the best examples of LLM developer tooling I’ve heard is from a team that supports software from the 80s-90s. Their only source of documentation is video interviews with retired employees. So they feed them into transcription software and get summarized…

  • Slashdot: AI is Now Screening Job Candidates Before Humans Ever See Them

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/01/186240/ai-is-now-screening-job-candidates-before-humans-ever-see-them Source: Slashdot Title: AI is Now Screening Job Candidates Before Humans Ever See Them Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emerging practice of using AI agents to conduct initial job interviews, highlighting a trend in recruitment where large language models automate the screening of applicants. This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/vscode-copilot-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat Feedly Summary: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the extension that provides the chat component of Copilot, but the launch announcement promises…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to Fix Your Context

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/how-to-fix-your-context/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to Fix Your Context Feedly Summary: How to Fix Your Context Drew Breunig has been publishing some very detailed notes on context engineering recently. In How Long Contexts Fail he described four common patterns for context rot, which he summarizes like so: Context Poisoning: When a…

  • Slashdot: To Spam AI Chatbots, Companies Spam Reddit with AI-Generated Posts

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/28/1649245/to-spam-ai-chatbots-companies-spam-reddit-with-ai-generated-posts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: To Spam AI Chatbots, Companies Spam Reddit with AI-Generated Posts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the strategic use of AI and social media platforms, specifically Reddit, by companies looking to boost their visibility in generative AI chatbot results. It highlights an ongoing conflict…

  • Cisco Security Blog: Brand impersonation at scale: How lookalike domains bypass traditional defenses

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    Source URL: https://blogs.cisco.com/security/how-lookalike-domains-bypass-traditional-defenses Source: Cisco Security Blog Title: Brand impersonation at scale: How lookalike domains bypass traditional defenses Feedly Summary: With more than 30K lookalike domains identified in 2024, organizations need the visibility and context to detect and respond to threats. Learn how to do that. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights…