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  • Slashdot: Nearly 10 Years After Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier Says: Privacy’s Still Screwed

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/17/1557220/nearly-10-years-after-data-and-goliath-bruce-schneier-says-privacys-still-screwed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nearly 10 Years After Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier Says: Privacy’s Still Screwed Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Bruce Schneier highlights the intensified state of surveillance over the past decade, emphasizing that despite some regulatory measures, the core issue of surveillance capitalism remains unaddressed. He warns…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/29/baroness-kidron-speech/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation Feedly Summary: Baroness Kidron’s speech regarding UK AI legislation Barnstormer of a speech by UK film director and member of the House of Lords Baroness Kidron. This is the Hansard transcript but you can also watch the video on parliamentlive.tv.…

  • Cloud Blog: ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/scatterbrain-unmasking-poisonplug-obfuscator/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator Feedly Summary: Written by: Nino Isakovic Introduction Since 2022, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking multiple cyber espionage operations conducted by China-nexus actors utilizing POISONPLUG.SHADOW. These operations employ a custom obfuscating compiler that we refer to as “ScatterBrain," facilitating…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anomalous Tokens in DeepSeek-V3 and r1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/anomalous-tokens-in-deepseek-v3-and-r1/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anomalous Tokens in DeepSeek-V3 and r1 Feedly Summary: Anomalous Tokens in DeepSeek-V3 and r1 Glitch tokens (previously) are tokens or strings that trigger strange behavior in LLMs, hinting at oddities in their tokenizers or model weights. Here’s a fun exploration of them across DeepSeek v3 and R1.…

  • The Register: EU demands a peek under the hood of X’s recommendation algorithms

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/eu_x_algorithm_changes/ Source: The Register Title: EU demands a peek under the hood of X’s recommendation algorithms Feedly Summary: Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election The European Commission is stepping up its ongoing investigation of Elon Musk’s X with a request to examine…

  • The Register: The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/unlicensed_onedrive_fun_ends/ Source: The Register Title: The unlicensed OneDrive free ride ends this month Feedly Summary: Kind old Microsoft is worried about security and compliance … nothing to do with a free storage loophole Still keeping data in unlicensed OneDrive accounts of long-gone users? The time has come to act: The data could soon…

  • Wired: The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-year-of-the-ai-election-wasnt-quite-what-everyone-expected/ Source: Wired Title: The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected Feedly Summary: Deepfakes were nothing like the political force in 2024 that many feared—but that doesn’t mean that generative AI didn’t profoundly affect elections all over the world. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/genie-2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model Feedly Summary: Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model New research (so nothing we can play with) from Google DeepMind. Genie 2 is effectively a game engine driven entirely by generative AI – you can seed it with any image…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/4/genie-2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model Feedly Summary: Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model New research (so nothing we can play with) from Google DeepMind. Genie 2 is effectively a game engine driven entirely by generative AI – you can seed it with any image…