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  • The Register: Frozen supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/iceland_facial_recognition/ Source: The Register Title: Frozen supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech Feedly Summary: Privacy campaigner brands Iceland’s use of ‘Orwellian’ camera tech ‘chilling,’ CEO responds: ‘It’ll cut violent crime’ Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland’s decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores “chilling" – the UK supermarket…

  • The Register: Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/germany_probes_ai_market_over_competition_concerns/ Source: The Register Title: Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Feedly Summary: Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes…

  • OpenAI : Driving scalable growth with OpenAI o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/unify Source: OpenAI Title: Driving scalable growth with OpenAI o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA Feedly Summary: Unify, an AI-powered GTM platform, uses OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA to automate prospecting, research, and outreach. With hyper-personalized messaging and an always-on workflow, Unify helps teams generate pipeline at scale while focusing on high-impact customer interactions. AI…

  • The Register: Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/australia_age_assurance_trial_findings/ Source: The Register Title: Australia finds age detection tech has many flaws but will work Feedly Summary: Probe into how to implement social media ban finds privacy risks, developer overreach, infosec uncertainties Australia’s trial of age assurance technology has found it’s up to the task of preventing children under 16 years of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

  • The Register: Asana’s cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/asana_mcp_server_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Asana’s cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem Feedly Summary: New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks Asana has fixed a bug in its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that could have allowed users to view other organizations’ data, and the experimental…

  • Cloud Blog: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4d-vms-unparalleled-performance-for-business-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads Feedly Summary: We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful…

  • Slashdot: Site for ‘Accelerating’ AI Use Across the US Government Accidentally Leaked on GitHub

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/15/0323209/site-for-accelerating-ai-use-across-the-us-government-accidentally-leaked-on-github?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Site for ‘Accelerating’ AI Use Across the US Government Accidentally Leaked on GitHub Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. federal government is developing the AI.gov website and API to enhance government operations with artificial intelligence, aiming to deploy AI tools across agencies. This initiative reflects…