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  • Slashdot: Asking Chatbots For Short Answers Can Increase Hallucinations, Study Finds

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/12/2114214/asking-chatbots-for-short-answers-can-increase-hallucinations-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Asking Chatbots For Short Answers Can Increase Hallucinations, Study Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research from Giskard highlights a critical concern for AI professionals regarding the trade-off between response length and factual accuracy among leading AI models. This finding is particularly relevant for those…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cursor: Security

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/cursor-security/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cursor: Security Feedly Summary: Cursor: Security Cursor’s security documentation page includes a surprising amount of detail about how the Cursor text editor’s backend systems work. I’ve recently learned that checking an organization’s list of documented subprocessors is a great way to get a feel for how everything…

  • Slashdot: What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving?

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/0623242/what-happens-if-ai-coding-keeps-improving?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rising significance of generative AI tools in coding, highlighting that tools like Cursor and Windsurf significantly reduce human oversight in software development. It notes the increasing integration of AI in…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Using AI to stop tech support scams in Chrome

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/05/using-ai-to-stop-tech-support-scams-in.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Using AI to stop tech support scams in Chrome Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the integration of an on-device large language model (LLM) in Chrome 137 to enhance protection against tech support scams. This novel approach allows for real-time detection…

  • Cloud Blog: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/search-indexes-with-column-granularity-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance Feedly Summary: BigQuery delivers optimized search/lookup query performance by efficiently pruning irrelevant files. However, in some cases, additional column information is required for search indexes to further optimize query performance. To help, we recently announced indexing with…

  • NCSC Feed: Software Security Code of Practice – Assurance Principles and Claims (APCs)

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/software-security-code-of-practice-assurance-principles-claims Source: NCSC Feed Title: Software Security Code of Practice – Assurance Principles and Claims (APCs) Feedly Summary: Helps vendors measure how well they meet the Software Security Code of Practice, and suggests remedial actions should they fall short. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a framework designed for vendors…

  • CSA: Why MFT Matters for Compliance and Risk Reduction

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    Source URL: https://blog.axway.com/learning-center/managed-file-transfer-mft/mft-compliance-security Source: CSA Title: Why MFT Matters for Compliance and Risk Reduction Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolving landscape of compliance in managed file transfer (MFT) solutions, emphasizing the necessity of modernization in the face of increasingly complex regulatory requirements and security threats. It highlights the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…