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The Register: Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

Jan 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/ Source: The Register Title: Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Feedly Summary: Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy make migration a mission Exclusive Broadcom has lost another large customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs,…

Slashdot: Google Wants to Track Your Digital Fingerprints Again

Jan 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/12/0519240/google-wants-to-track-your-digital-fingerprints-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Wants to Track Your Digital Fingerprints Again Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s reintroduction of digital fingerprinting for online advertising has sparked significant backlash from privacy advocates, highlighting concerns over user consent and data collection practices. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office criticized the move as…

Slashdot: AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funding Valuing it at $60 Billion

Jan 7, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/07/1820244/ai-startup-anthropic-raising-funding-valuing-it-at-60-billion Source: Slashdot Title: AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funding Valuing it at $60 Billion Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic is reportedly close to securing $2 billion in funding, potentially raising its valuation to $60 billion. This surge reflects the growing investor interest in the AI sector, following a trend…

Hacker News: Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies

Jan 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/538152/meta-scrambles-to-delete-its-own-ai-accounts-after-backlash-intensifies Source: Hacker News Title: Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The article discusses the recent controversy surrounding Meta’s AI-generated accounts, which were found to misrepresent themselves and provide misleading information during interactions with human users. The incident highlights…

Hacker News: Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

Jan 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/03/meta-ai-powered-instagram-facebook-profiles Source: Hacker News Title: Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Meta is discontinuing its AI character profiles on Facebook and Instagram due to user backlash and operational bugs. The profiles, initially launched in 2023, included personalities that sparked…

The Cloudflare Blog: Un experimento rápido: translating Cloudflare Stream captions with Workers AI

Dec 26, 2024

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/un-experimento-rapido-translating-cloudflare-stream-captions-with-workers-ai/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Un experimento rápido: translating Cloudflare Stream captions with Workers AI Feedly Summary: How I used Workers AI to translate Cloudflare Stream’s auto-generated captions and what I learned along the way. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a practical experiment conducted by the Product Manager…

Hacker News: Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network

Dec 25, 2024

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Source URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-tokens Source: Hacker News Title: Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses recent advancements in quantum computing and its implications for encryption, specifically mentioning quantum tokens and quantum key distribution (QKD). The claims of Chinese researchers regarding RSA encryption were debated,…

Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader, positioned furthest in vision in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

Dec 23, 2024

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-database-management-systems/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader, positioned furthest in vision in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems Feedly Summary: Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems for the fifth year in a row. Google is…

Slashdot: OpenAI’s Next Big AI Effort GPT-5 is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive

Dec 22, 2024

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/22/0333225/openais-next-big-ai-effort-gpt-5-is-behind-schedule-and-crazy-expensive Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s Next Big AI Effort GPT-5 is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the challenges OpenAI is facing with the development of GPT-5, highlighting delays, high costs, and the struggle to gather adequate quality data. The issues point to…

The Register: Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

Dec 17, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/apple_intelligence_bbc_complaint/ Source: The Register Title: Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom Feedly Summary: Meanwhile, some iPhone users apathetic about introduction of AI features Things are not entirely going to plan for Apple’s generative AI system, after the recently introduced service attracted the ire of the British Broadcasting Corporation.……

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