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  • Cloud Blog: London Summit: agentic AI leaders, training 100,000 civil servants, AI sovereignty, and more

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/london-summit-2025-gen-ai-agents-transforming-business-civil-service/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: London Summit: agentic AI leaders, training 100,000 civil servants, AI sovereignty, and more Feedly Summary: There’s a buzz of excitement here at Tobacco Dock as we welcome our customers and partners to the Google Cloud Summit London. Together, we’re exploring the essential role Google Cloud is playing in…

  • Slashdot: The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/2146228/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses “Anubis,” a tool designed to combat AI bot scrapers by using browser features to automate CAPTCHA verification through cryptographic math. Its adoption by notable organizations highlights the tool’s…

  • Slashdot: Is China Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race?

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/2022253/is-china-quickly-eroding-americas-lead-in-the-global-ai-race?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is China Quickly Eroding America’s Lead in the Global AI Race? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The provided text outlines China’s aggressive investments in its AI supply chain to reduce dependence on U.S. technologies, highlighting the growing global competitiveness of Chinese AI companies such as DeepSeek…

  • Slashdot: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is grappling with ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, primarily attributed to botnets and potential Large Language Model (LLM) scrapers. Despite these challenges, their critical infrastructure…

  • Slashdot: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1259255/diffusion–coding–diffucode-how-apple-released-a-weirdly-interesting-coding-language-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the release of Apple’s new AI model, DiffuCode-7B-cpGRPO, which utilizes a diffusion-based approach for code generation, unlike traditional autoregressive large language…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1935203/microsoft-open-sources-copilot-chat-for-vs-code-on-github Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, allowing developers to access its internal workings, including data handling and telemetry. This transparency is significant for security, as it…

  • 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…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/verified-bots-with-cryptography/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication Feedly Summary: Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text…

  • 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…