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  • Slashdot: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/0755253/swiss-government-looks-to-undercut-privacy-tech-stoking-fears-of-mass-surveillance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The proposed Swiss government law requiring service providers to collect user identification and retain data poses severe threats to privacy and online anonymity. This has prompted companies like Proton…

  • Cloud Blog: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/troubleshoot-apache-spark-on-dataproc-with-gemini-cloud-assist-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark Feedly Summary: Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging…

  • The Register: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sainsburys_lfr/ Source: The Register Title: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Feedly Summary: Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech…

  • Slashdot: Hackers Threaten To Submit Artists’ Data To AI Models If Art Site Doesn’t Pay Up

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1936245/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hackers Threaten To Submit Artists’ Data To AI Models If Art Site Doesn’t Pay Up Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The ransomware attack by LunaLock presents a significant threat to data privacy and security, especially with its novel approach of threatening to submit stolen artwork to…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/committing-to-apache-iceberg-with-our-ecosystem-partners/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud’s open ecosystem for Apache Iceberg Feedly Summary: AI is transforming data into a strategic asset, driving demand for flexible, integrated, and real-time data architectures. But yesterday’s data tools can’t handle AI’s demand for massive volumes of real-time and multi-modal data. Data lakes, for instance, offer flexibility…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple Over Claims It Favors OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/technology/elon-musk-xai-sues-apple.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple Over Claims It Favors OpenAI Feedly Summary: Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, claimed that its Grok chatbot app was being artificially suppressed in Apple’s App Store. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a claim made…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…

  • Cloud Blog: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4-vms-based-on-intel-6th-gen-xeon-granite-rapids-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6 Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our C4 virtual machine series, with the general availability of 28 powerful new shapes. This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Trump Announces Health Care Records System for Consumers

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/politics/trump-health-records-system.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Trump Announces Health Care Records System for Consumers Feedly Summary: The administration is working with tech companies to make sharing information with various providers easier. Experts raised concerns about privacy and security. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses government collaboration with…