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  • Cloud Blog: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/how-yahoo-calendar-broke-free-from-hardware-queues-and-dba-bottlenecks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Yahoo Calendar broke free from hardware queues and DBA bottlenecks Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Yahoo Mail is in the midst of one of its largest infrastructure transformations to date: a multi-year effort to modernize hundreds of petabytes of services by moving to Google Cloud.The Yahoo Mail migration…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/the-rule-of-2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Feedly Summary: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Alex Russell pointed me to this principle in the Chromium security documentation as similar to my description of the lethal trifecta. First added in 2019, the Chromium guideline states: When you write code…

  • Slashdot: $1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/0037258/1m-stolen-in-industrial-scale-crypto-theft-using-ai-generated-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: $1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a sophisticated cybercrime operation, GreedyBear, which utilizes a highly coordinated strategy, weaponizing browser extensions and phishing sites to facilitate industrial-scale crypto theft. The group’s innovative techniques, including the modification…

  • Slashdot: Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities

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    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…

  • Docker: Remocal and Minimum Viable Models: Why Right-Sized Models Beat API Overkill

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/remocal-minimum-viable-models-ai/ Source: Docker Title: Remocal and Minimum Viable Models: Why Right-Sized Models Beat API Overkill Feedly Summary: A practical approach to escaping the expensive, slow world of API-dependent AI The $20K Monthly Reality Check You built a simple sentiment analyzer for customer reviews. It works great. Except it costs $847/month in API calls…

  • Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-is-a-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-scps/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services Feedly Summary: For the eighth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, and this year Google is also now ranked the highest for…

  • Slashdot: Amazon’s Cloud Business Giving Federal Agencies Up To $1 Billion In Discounts

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/07/2137222/amazons-cloud-business-giving-federal-agencies-up-to-1-billion-in-discounts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon’s Cloud Business Giving Federal Agencies Up To $1 Billion In Discounts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has secured a partnership with the U.S. government that provides up to $1 billion in discounts for cloud services, which will accelerate the federal migration…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Previewing GPT-5 at OpenAI’s office

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/previewing-gpt-5/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Previewing GPT-5 at OpenAI’s office Feedly Summary: A couple of weeks ago I was invited to OpenAI’s headquarters for a “preview event", for which I had to sign both an NDA and a video release waiver. I suspected it might relate to either GPT-5 or the OpenAI…