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  • Slashdot: UK’s First Permanent Facial Recognition Cameras Installed

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/1556222/uks-first-permanent-facial-recognition-cameras-installed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UK’s First Permanent Facial Recognition Cameras Installed Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Metropolitan Police’s installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon marks a significant step in crime prevention and surveillance technology. This initiative raises important implications for privacy, security, and compliance as law…

  • Hacker News: How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border

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    Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/26/phone-search-privacy-us-border-immigration Source: Hacker News Title: How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an in-depth discussion on online privacy and security practices, specifically focused on travelers’ encounters with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It outlines ways…

  • The Register: UK’s first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/uk_facial_recognition/ Source: The Register Title: UK’s first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London Feedly Summary: As if living in Croydon wasn’t bad enough The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s Viral Studio Ghibli Moment Highlights AI Copyright Concerns

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/0023207/openais-viral-studio-ghibli-moment-highlights-ai-copyright-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s Viral Studio Ghibli Moment Highlights AI Copyright Concerns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The reported emergence of AI image generation tools, such as OpenAI’s and Google’s latest offerings, has sparked widespread usage and concerns regarding copyright infringement. As these tools enable users to recreate styles…

  • Hacker News: Playwright Tools for MCP

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    Source URL: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp Source: Hacker News Title: Playwright Tools for MCP Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server which utilizes Playwright for browser automation. This server is significant for enabling Language Learning Models (LLMs) to execute interactions with web pages without relying on visual…

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…

  • Hacker News: How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border

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    Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/26/phone-search-privacy-us-border-immigration Source: Hacker News Title: How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an in-depth discussion on online privacy and security practices, specifically focused on travelers’ encounters with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It outlines ways…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing 4o Image Generation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/introducing-4o-image-generation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing 4o Image Generation Feedly Summary: Introducing 4o Image Generation When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o back in May 2024 one of the most exciting features was true multi-modality in that it could both input and output audio and images. The “o" stood for "omni", and the image…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/gemini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces Feedly Summary: There’s a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems". It’s already sat at the top of the LM Arena…