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  • Slashdot: LinkedIn Set To Start To Train Its AI on Member Profiles

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/2118229/linkedin-set-to-start-to-train-its-ai-on-member-profiles Source: Slashdot Title: LinkedIn Set To Start To Train Its AI on Member Profiles Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: LinkedIn’s announcement regarding the use of member profiles, posts, and public activity to train its AI models raises significant privacy and compliance concerns. The default opt-in mechanism for data collection…

  • Slashdot: Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered ‘Homework Helper’ Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/029249/google-temporarily-pauses-ai-powered-homework-helper-button-in-chrome-over-cheating-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered ‘Homework Helper’ Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent introduction of a “homework help” button in Google Chrome has sparked significant concern among educators regarding the potential for widespread cheating during online assessments. This development highlights…

  • Cloud Blog: How Google Cloud’s AI tech stack powers today’s startups

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/differentiated-ai-tech-stack-drives-startup-innovation-google-builders-forum/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Google Cloud’s AI tech stack powers today’s startups Feedly Summary: AI has accelerated startup innovation more than any technology since perhaps the internet itself, and we’ve been fortunate to have a front row seat to much of this innovation here at Google Cloud. Nine of the top…

  • Cloud Blog: Power up your data analysis: The Data Science Agent now supports BigQuery ML, DataFrames, and Spark

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/data-science-agent-now-supports-bigquery-ml-dataframes-and-spark/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Power up your data analysis: The Data Science Agent now supports BigQuery ML, DataFrames, and Spark Feedly Summary: We recently announced AI-first Colab Enterprise notebook experience in BigQuery and Vertex AI to help you simplify and transform your data science and analytics workflows. Colab Enterprise notebooks come with…

  • The Register: ‘Powerful but dangerous’ full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/full_mcp_support_in_beta_chatgpt/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Powerful but dangerous’ full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives Feedly Summary: ‘Wow this is dangerous’ says Django dev, while others call feature a ‘game-changer’ OpenAI has added a beta of Developer mode to ChatGPT, enabling full read and write support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, though…

  • 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…