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  • Cloud Blog: Boosting defenders with AI: What’s coming at Security Summit 2025

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/boosting-defenders-with-ai-whats-coming-at-security-summit-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Boosting defenders with AI: What’s coming at Security Summit 2025 Feedly Summary: While AI can help empower defenders, it can also create new security challenges. Those two critical, interconnected themes are driving our announcements and presentations for this year’s Google Cloud Security Summit.Join us live for Security Summit…

  • Cloud Blog: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/how-yahoo-calendar-broke-free-from-hardware-queues-and-dba-bottlenecks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration…

  • Slashdot: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/025214/how-python-is-fighting-open-sources-phantom-dependencies-problem?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Python Software Foundation is addressing the “phantom dependencies” issue in software packages by introducing the Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) through Python Enhancement Proposal 770. This initiative enhances metadata accessibility, making it easier…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B-Thinking: "This is art – pelicans don’t ride bikes!"

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/10/qwen3-4b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B-Thinking: "This is art – pelicans don’t ride bikes!" Feedly Summary: I’ve fallen a few days behind keeping up with Qwen. They released two new 4B models last week: Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 and its thinking equivalent Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507. These are relatively tiny models that punch way above their weight. I’ve…

  • The Register: Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console Feedly Summary: PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro’s Apex One endpoint security platform…

  • Slashdot: WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/2023212/wsj-finds-dozens-of-delusional-claims-from-ai-chats-as-companies-scramble-for-a-fix?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: WSJ Finds ‘Dozens’ of Delusional Claims from AI Chats as Companies Scramble for a Fix Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Wall Street Journal has reported on concerning instances where ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have reinforced delusional beliefs, leading users to trust in fantastical narratives,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs…

  • Slashdot: AI Industry Horrified To Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/2040214/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Industry Horrified To Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the potential repercussions of a major copyright class action lawsuit against Anthropic, which could significantly impact the entire AI industry. Claims from industry groups suggest that if…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/rearchitecting-workers-kv-for-redundancy/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance Feedly Summary: Workers KV is Cloudflare’s global key-value store. After the incident on June 12, we re-architected KV’s redundant storage backend, remove single points of failure, and make substantial improvements. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…