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  • Slashdot: Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/05/1315244/uber-india-starts-offering-drivers-gigs-collecting-and-classifying-info-for-ai-models Source: Slashdot Title: Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Uber’s Indian branch has launched a new initiative that allows rideshare and delivery drivers to earn extra income by participating in data classification tasks for AI systems. This…

  • Docker: Docker Acquisition of MCP Defender Helps Meet Challenges of Securing the Agentic Future

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-acquires-mcp-defender-ai-agent-security/ Source: Docker Title: Docker Acquisition of MCP Defender Helps Meet Challenges of Securing the Agentic Future Feedly Summary: Docker, Inc.®, a provider of cloud-native and AI-native development tools, infrastructure, and services, today announced the acquisition of MCP Defender, a company founded to secure AI applications. The rapid evolution of AI-from simple generative…

  • The Register: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/microsoft_analog_optical_computer/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype Feedly Summary: Good for solving finance and clinical problems… and AI Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology’s capabilities.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Schneier on Security: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/gpt-4o-mini-falls-for-psychological-manipulation.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation Feedly Summary: Interesting experiment: To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk and giving directions for how to synthesize lidocaine. The researchers created experimental…

  • The Register: Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/uk_schools_intradev_breach/ Source: The Register Title: Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust Feedly Summary: Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach A major UK education trust has warned staff that their personal information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on software developer Intradev in August.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Slashdot: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney For Copyright Infringement

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/04/2236226/warner-bros-discovery-sues-midjourney-for-copyright-infringement Source: Slashdot Title: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney For Copyright Infringement Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Warner Bros. Discovery has raised significant legal concerns by filing a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the AI image generator is unlawfully using its intellectual property to create images of iconic characters.…

  • The Register: Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/boffins_detail_ai_mind_wipe/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info Feedly Summary: Because nobody’s going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content Researchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible…

  • The Register: Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/unknown_miscreants_snooping_around_sitecore/ Source: The Register Title: Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys Feedly Summary: You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch Unknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing EmbeddingGemma

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…

  • The Register: Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/boffins_build_automated_android_bug_hunting/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system Feedly Summary: AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps AI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to…