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  • Cloud Blog: How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/mlb-delivers-real-time-data-to-fans/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Major League Baseball (MLB) delivers data in real time to millions of fans, apps, and broadcasters — tracking everything from pitch speeds to player positions. To keep pace, the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Nick Turley

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/nick-turley/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Nick Turley Feedly Summary: This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users — up from 500M at the end of March and 4× since last year. — Nick Turley, Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI Tags: openai, chatgpt, ai AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Embrace The Red: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132)

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/cursor-data-exfiltration-with-mermaid/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132) Feedly Summary: Cursor is a popular AI code editor. In this post I want to share how I found an interesting data exfiltration issue, the demo exploits built and how it got fixed. When using Cursor I noticed that…

  • The Register: Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud due to EU sanctions on Russia

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/nayara_energy_microsoft_india/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud due to EU sanctions on Russia Feedly Summary: Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/privacy-design/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences Feedly Summary: ChatGPT just removed their “make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: Palantir Lands $10 Billion Army Software and Data Contract

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2055248/palantir-lands-10-billion-army-software-and-data-contract?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Palantir Lands $10 Billion Army Software and Data Contract Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on Palantir’s substantial $10 billion contract with the U.S. Army to create an AI-focused enterprise framework, signaling a significant step in military AI integration and procurement efficiency. This partnership…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • The Register: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/emoji_use_ai_malware/ Source: The Register Title: Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI Feedly Summary: Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with cryptocurrency-stealing malware appears to have been largely AI-generated, as evidenced by its liberal use of emojis and other telltale signs.……