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  • The Register: AI agents? Yes, let’s automate all sorts of things that don’t actually need it

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/ai_agents_automate_argument/ Source: The Register Title: AI agents? Yes, let’s automate all sorts of things that don’t actually need it Feedly Summary: OpenAI’s Operator a solution in search of a problem Opinion The “agentic era," as Nvidia’s Jim Fan and others have referred to the current evolutionary state of generative artificial intelligence (AI), is…

  • The Register: CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/cloudflare_cdn_location_data/ Source: The Register Title: CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy Feedly Summary: Also, Subaru web portal spills user deets, Tornado Cash sanctions overturned, a Stark ransomware attack, and more Infosec in brief Using a custom-built tool, a 15-year-old hacker exploited Cloudflare’s content delivery network to approximate the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT Operator system prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/chatgpt-operator-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT Operator system prompt Feedly Summary: ChatGPT Operator system prompt Johann Rehberger snagged a copy of the ChatGPT Operator system prompt. As usual, the system prompt doubles as better written documentation than any of the official sources. It asks users for confirmation a lot: ## Confirmations Ask…

  • Hacker News: Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder

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    Source URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-infects-18-000-script-kiddies-with-fake-malware-builder/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent report by CloudSEK reveals how a Trojanized version of the XWorm RAT builder was weaponized and distributed, unknowingly compromising low-skilled hackers, or “script kiddies”. This incident underscores the…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web

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    Source URL: https://brids.bearblog.dev/openai-just-put-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-the-open-world-wide-web/ Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of OpenAI’s release of its web-browsing agent, Operator, suggesting that it may endanger the traditional open internet model by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic’s new Citations API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/anthropics-new-citations-api/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic’s new Citations API Feedly Summary: Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what this is and why it’s interesting. Citations for Retrieval Augmented Generation…

  • The Register: OpenAI’s Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/openai_unveils_operator_agent/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI’s Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task Feedly Summary: Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? OpenAI on Thursday launched a human-directed AI agent…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Operator

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/23/introducing-operator/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Operator Feedly Summary: Introducing Operator OpenAI released their “research preview" today of Operator, a cloud-based browser automation platform rolling out today to $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscribers. They’re calling this their first "agent". In the Operator announcement video Sam Altman defined that notoriously vague term like this:…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Unveils AI Agent To Automate Web Browsing Tasks

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/23/1819222/openai-unveils-ai-agent-to-automate-web-browsing-tasks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Unveils AI Agent To Automate Web Browsing Tasks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s launch of Operator signifies a significant advancement in AI capabilities, particularly for web-based interactions. This development could have significant implications for AI security and user privacy, given the agent’s ability to…