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  • 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…

  • Slashdot: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/037202/5-million-people-tried-microsofts-ai-coding-tool-github-copilot-in-the-last-3-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, has now reached 20 million users, showcasing significant growth in adoption, particularly among enterprise clients. The increase in users indicates…

  • Embrace The Red: Anthropic Filesystem MCP Server: Directory Access Bypass via Improper Path Validation

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/anthropic-filesystem-mcp-server-bypass/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Anthropic Filesystem MCP Server: Directory Access Bypass via Improper Path Validation Feedly Summary: A few months ago I was looking at the filesystem MCP server from Anthropic. The server allows to give an AI, like Claude Desktop, access to the local filesystem to read files or edit…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2237220/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude-over-terms-of-service-violation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access To Claude Over Terms of Service Violation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Anthropic revoking OpenAI’s API access due to violations of terms of service, emphasizing the competitive dynamics within AI development. This situation highlights the importance of compliance with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • Slashdot: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2043256/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s vision of integrating advertising into conversations with the AI-powered assistant Alexa+. This approach presents both opportunities and challenges, notably regarding user privacy and AI…

  • The Register: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/emoji_use_ai_malware/ Source: The Register Title: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI Feedly Summary: Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with cryptocurrency-stealing malware appears to have been largely AI-generated, as evidenced by its liberal use of emojis and other telltale signs.……

  • The Register: China says US spies exploited Microsoft Exchange zero-day to steal military info

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/china_us_intel_attacks/ Source: The Register Title: China says US spies exploited Microsoft Exchange zero-day to steal military info Feedly Summary: Spy vs. spy China has accused US intelligence agencies of exploiting a Microsoft Exchange zero-day exploit to steal defense-related data and take over more than 50 devices belonging to a “major Chinese military enterprise"…