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Slashdot: UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration Databases
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/1458253/uk-secretly-allows-facial-recognition-scans-of-passport-immigration-databases Source: Slashdot Title: UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration Databases Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text addresses significant privacy concerns regarding the UK police’s deployment of facial recognition technology using passport and immigration databases, lacking proper oversight. This raises important compliance and governance issues relevant…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card Feedly Summary: I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite model. It’s still an LLM – it’s not a dramatic departure…
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Slashdot: ‘Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man’
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/06/2227235/facial-recognition-tech-mistook-me-for-wanted-man?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a legal challenge against the Metropolitan Police in the UK regarding live facial recognition technology (LFR) that mistakenly identified a man as a suspect. This case highlights concerns about privacy…
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The Register: Robots can program each other’s brains with AI, scientist shows
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/generative_ai_codes_drone_control/ Source: The Register Title: Robots can program each other’s brains with AI, scientist shows Feedly Summary: It’s a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if…
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Cloud Blog: Supercharge your AI: GKE inference reference architecture, your blueprint for production-ready inference
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/supercharge-your-ai-gke-inference-reference-architecture-your-blueprint-for-production-ready-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge your AI: GKE inference reference architecture, your blueprint for production-ready inference Feedly Summary: The age of AI is here, and organizations everywhere are racing to deploy powerful models to drive innovation, enhance products, and create entirely new user experiences. But moving from a trained model in a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/qwen3-4b-instruct-and-thinking/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Feedly Summary: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential…