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  • Wired: An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/cursor-ai-support-bot-invents-fake-policy-and-triggers-user-uproar/ Source: Wired Title: An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess Feedly Summary: When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving Cursor’s AI model highlights critical concerns regarding AI reliability and user…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/18/2323216/openai-puzzled-as-new-models-show-rising-hallucination-rates Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recent AI models, o3 and o4-mini, display increased hallucination rates compared to previous iterations. This raises concerns regarding the reliability of such AI systems in practical applications. The findings emphasize the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: MCP Run Python

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/mcp-run-python/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: MCP Run Python Feedly Summary: MCP Run Python Pydantic AI’s MCP server for running LLM-generated Python code in a sandbox. They ended up using a trick I explored two years ago: using a Deno process to run Pyodide in a WebAssembly sandbox. Here’s a bit of a…

  • Wired: ‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/cve-program-cisa-funding-chaos/ Source: Wired Title: ‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program Feedly Summary: The CVE Program is the primary way software vulnerabilities are tracked. Its long-term future remains in limbo even after a last-minute renewal of the US government contract that funds it. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: openai/codex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/openai-codex/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: openai/codex Feedly Summary: openai/codex Just released by OpenAI, a “lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal". Looks like their version of Claude Code. Tags: ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai-agents, openai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recently released lightweight coding agent, integrated into the terminal,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Hamel Husain

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/15/hamel-husain/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Hamel Husain Feedly Summary: The single most impactful investment I’ve seen AI teams make isn’t a fancy evaluation dashboard—it’s building a customized interface that lets anyone examine what their AI is actually doing. I emphasize customized because every domain has unique needs that off-the-shelf tools rarely…

  • Schneier on Security: Slopsquatting

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/slopsquatting.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Slopsquatting Feedly Summary: As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers create and upload libraries with those names—laced with malware, of course. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical security concern in the intersection of AI and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/12/andrew-nesbitt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt Feedly Summary: Slopsquatting — when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson AI Summary…

  • The Register: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ Source: The Register Title: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Feedly Summary: Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ The rise of AI-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software – and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Slashdot: Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/2143211/fedora-targets-99-package-reproducibility-by-october?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Fedora’s upcoming version 43 is set to enhance package reproducibility to 99%, a vital improvement aimed at bolstering supply-chain security. The initiative utilizes innovative tools, public verification methods, and collaborative maintainer efforts to address…