Tag: research

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/ Source: The Register Title: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about Feedly Summary: Researchers find models’ success at tests hides illusion of understanding Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term “potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that…

Slashdot: Data Breach Reveals Catwatchful ‘Stalkerware’ Is Spying On Thousands of Phones

Jul 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/0023253/data-breach-reveals-catwatchful-stalkerware-is-spying-on-thousands-of-phones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Data Breach Reveals Catwatchful ‘Stalkerware’ Is Spying On Thousands of Phones Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security vulnerability in an Android spyware operation called Catwatchful, which exposed sensitive customer data, including email addresses and plaintext passwords. This incident raises concerns regarding…

Cloud Blog: Is your database holding you back? Boosting database efficiency and ROI with Cloud SQL

Jul 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-cloud-sql-boosts-performance-and-cuts-costs-per-idc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Is your database holding you back? Boosting database efficiency and ROI with Cloud SQL Feedly Summary: Editor’s Note: Today, we’re sharing insights from IDC Research Director, Devin Pratt, as he offers his analysis of recent research on Cloud SQL. In this post, you’ll see how Cloud SQL’s highly…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

Jul 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science/ai-psychology-mind.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All Feedly Summary: To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

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…

Krebs on Security: Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

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Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/senator-chides-fbi-for-weak-advice-on-mobile-security/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security Feedly Summary: Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The global threats facing EU healthcare

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-global-threats-eu-healthcare/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The global threats facing EU healthcare Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2025. Today, Thiébaut Meyer and Bhavana Bhinder from Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO discuss our work to help defend European healthcare against cyberattacks.As with all Cloud CISO…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?

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