Tag: oversight
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Slashdot: Commissioner of Canada Elections Will ‘Explore the Use’ of AI
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/14/1610236/commissioner-of-canada-elections-will-explore-the-use-of-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Commissioner of Canada Elections Will ‘Explore the Use’ of AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections (OCCE) is exploring the use of AI and emerging technologies to enhance its operations and tackle electoral challenges. This initiative comes amid rising…
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Schneier on Security: LLM Coding Integrity Breach
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/llm-coding-integrity-breach.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: LLM Coding Integrity Breach Feedly Summary: Here’s an interesting story about a failure being introduced by LLM-written code. Specifically, the LLM was doing some code refactoring, and when it moved a chunk of code from one file to another it changed a “break” to a “continue.” That…
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The Register: GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/gsa_inks_another_1dollar_onegov_deal/ Source: The Register Title: GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic Feedly Summary: Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing Anthropic has become the latest company to benefit from the US government’s frenetic AI adoption pace, inking…
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The Register: VS Code previews chat checkpoints for unpicking careless talk
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/vs_code_previews_chat_checkpoints/ Source: The Register Title: VS Code previews chat checkpoints for unpicking careless talk Feedly Summary: Microsoft’s AI-centric code editor and IDE adds the ability to rollback misguided AI prompts The Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has rolled out version 1.103 with new features including GitHub Copilot chat checkpoints.… AI Summary…
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Slashdot: Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/2123206/nvidia-and-amd-to-pay-15-of-china-chip-sale-revenues-to-us-government?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Nvidia and AMD To Pay 15% of China Chip Sale Revenues To US Government Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay 15% of their revenue from certain chip sales to China to the U.S. government as part of an export licensing…
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Slashdot: Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/09/1947230/google-says-its-ai-based-bug-hunter-found-20-security-vulnerabilities Source: Slashdot Title: Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s Big Sleep, an LLM-based vulnerability researcher, reported 20 vulnerabilities in popular open-source software, marking a significant advancement in automated vulnerability discovery. This highlights the increasing efficacy of AI tools in…