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  • Slashdot: Jaguar Land Rover Extends Shutdown After Cyber Attack

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/2044243/jaguar-land-rover-extends-shutdown-after-cyber-attack Source: Slashdot Title: Jaguar Land Rover Extends Shutdown After Cyber Attack Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Jaguar Land Rover has faced a significant cyberattack that led to the shutdown of its factories both in the UK and internationally. This incident underscores the vulnerabilities that organizations, especially in manufacturing, face…

  • Slashdot: All IT Work To Involve AI By 2030, Says Gartner

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/2031235/all-it-work-to-involve-ai-by-2030-says-gartner?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: All IT Work To Involve AI By 2030, Says Gartner Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Gartner’s projections regarding the integration of AI into IT departmental functions by 2030, predicting a significant augmentation of human roles rather than outright job losses. It highlights the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Luan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/james-luan/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Luan Feedly Summary: I recently spoke with the CTO of a popular AI note-taking app who told me something surprising: they spend twice as much on vector search as they do on OpenAI API calls. Think about that for a second. Running the retrieval layer…

  • The Register: Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/perplexity_us_govt_ai_discount/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too Feedly Summary: $0.25-per-agency deal not finalized, and no FedRAMP approval either – so don’t get excited Perplexity has entered the race to inject AI into the federal government with a new public sector version of its…

  • Cloud Blog: Registration now open: Our no-cost, generative AI training and certification program for veterans

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/register-for-the-gen-ai-training-and-certification-program-for-veterans/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Registration now open: Our no-cost, generative AI training and certification program for veterans Feedly Summary: Growing up in a Navy family instilled a strong sense of purpose in me. My father’s remarkable 42 years of naval service not only shaped my values, but inspired me to join the…

  • Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-the-bigquery–column-metadata-cmeta-index/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Feedly Summary: While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/07/2149212/microsofts-cloud-services-disrupted-by-red-sea-cable-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights the recent disruption of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services due to undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, impacting internet traffic in the Middle East and parts of Asia. This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Feedly Summary: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 New not-quite-MIT licensed model from Chinese Moonshot AI, a follow-up to the highly regarded Kimi-K2 model they released in July. This one is an incremental improvement – I’ve seen it referred to online as “Kimi K-2.1". It scores a little higher on a…