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  • Slashdot: CarFax For Used PCs: Hewlett Packard Wants To Give Laptops New Life

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/30/2052250/carfax-for-used-pcs-hewlett-packard-wants-to-give-laptops-new-life?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CarFax For Used PCs: Hewlett Packard Wants To Give Laptops New Life Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: HP is developing a “PCFax” system that securely collects and stores crucial device usage and health data at the firmware level, enhancing PC longevity and reducing e-waste. This system…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: How to build Web3 AI agents with Google Cloud

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-web3-ai-agents-with-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to build Web3 AI agents with Google Cloud Feedly Summary: For over two decades, Google has been a pioneer in AI, conducting groundwork that has shaped the industry. Concurrently, in the Web3 space, Google focuses on empowering the developer community by providing public goods resources like BigQuery…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Feedly Summary: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted…

  • Docker: Tool Calling with Local LLMs: A Practical Evaluation

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/local-llm-tool-calling-a-practical-evaluation/ Source: Docker Title: Tool Calling with Local LLMs: A Practical Evaluation Feedly Summary: Which local model should I use for tool calling? When building GenAI and agentic applications, one of the most pressing and persistent questions is: “Which local model should I use for tool calling?”  We kept hearing again and again,…

  • The Register: It’s 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/information_security_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: It’s 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators Feedly Summary: PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and more Infosec in Brief Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to Fix Your Context

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/how-to-fix-your-context/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to Fix Your Context Feedly Summary: How to Fix Your Context Drew Breunig has been publishing some very detailed notes on context engineering recently. In How Long Contexts Fail he described four common patterns for context rot, which he summarizes like so: Context Poisoning: When a…