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  • Slashdot: The Startup-Filled Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s AI Frenzy

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/2045246/the-startup-filled-coder-village-at-the-heart-of-chinas-ai-frenzy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Startup-Filled Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s AI Frenzy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses China’s efforts to build an independent AI supply chain in response to U.S. technological dominance, highlighting the challenges faced by startups in the Liangzhu area. It underscores…

  • Slashdot: Google DeepMind’s Spinoff Company ‘Very Close’ to Human Trials for Its AI-Designed Drugs

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/2124226/google-deepminds-spinoff-company-very-close-to-human-trials-for-its-ai-designed-drugs Source: Slashdot Title: Google DeepMind’s Spinoff Company ‘Very Close’ to Human Trials for Its AI-Designed Drugs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text illustrates the significant advancements in AI-driven drug discovery, particularly highlighting Isomorphic Labs’ plans to initiate human clinical trials using AI-designed drugs. This aligns closely with the…

  • Slashdot: Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/0252201/police-department-apologizes-for-sharing-ai-doctored-evidence-photo-on-social-media?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A police department in Maine admitted to inadvertently sharing an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media, resulting in public scrutiny over the integrity of evidence presentation. This incident…

  • Slashdot: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1259255/diffusion–coding–diffucode-how-apple-released-a-weirdly-interesting-coding-language-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the release of Apple’s new AI model, DiffuCode-7B-cpGRPO, which utilizes a diffusion-based approach for code generation, unlike traditional autoregressive large language…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Feedly Summary: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Here’s yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data…

  • Slashdot: Two Sudo Vulnerabilities Discovered and Patched

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/0323220/two-sudo-vulnerabilities-discovered-and-patched?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Two Sudo Vulnerabilities Discovered and Patched Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in Sudo that allow local attackers to escalate their privileges. Researchers have identified two critical flaws, CVE-2025-32462 and CVE-2025-32463, which could potentially expose systems to security risks and…

  • Slashdot: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1521245/simple-text-additions-can-fool-advanced-ai-reasoning-models-researchers-find Source: Slashdot Title: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research highlights a significant vulnerability in state-of-the-art reasoning AI models through the “CatAttack” technique, which attaches irrelevant phrases to math problems, leading to higher error rates and inefficient responses.…

  • The Register: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about

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    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…