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Hacker News: How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions

Jan 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/googles-chrome-web-store-has-a-serious-spam-problem-promoting-shady-extensions/ Source: Hacker News Title: How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses violations of Google Chrome’s policies by third-party extension developers who manipulate search results through unethical practices. This not only misrepresents the extensions but can also lead…

Hacker News: How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities

Jan 12, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://blog.anj.ai/2025/01/llm-token-generation-probabilities.html Source: Hacker News Title: How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes ### Summary: The text provides a deep examination of how large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, process and generate responses based on conflicting and outdated information sourced from the internet.…

Hacker News: Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaling powered by an OpenTelemetry-native tool

Jan 11, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.dash0.com/blog/autoscaling-your-kubernetes-application-with-dash0 Source: Hacker News Title: Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaling powered by an OpenTelemetry-native tool Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth analysis of the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) in Kubernetes and its ability to automate application scaling based on telemetry data, emphasizing the importance of application-level…

Hacker News: Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

Jan 10, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/ Source: Hacker News Title: Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text exposes a significant privacy issue where popular applications are exploited to harvest sensitive location data through advertising networks without user or developer consent. The…

Cloud Blog: Avoid global outages by partitioning cloud applications to reduce blast radius

Jan 9, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/how-to-partition-cloud-applications-to-avoid-global-outages/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Avoid global outages by partitioning cloud applications to reduce blast radius Feedly Summary: Cloud applications like Google Workspace provide benefits such as collaboration, availability, security, and cost-efficiency. However, for cloud application developers, there’s a fundamental conflict between achieving high availability and the constant evolution of cloud applications. Changes…

Hacker News: Apple’s new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit

Jan 9, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/08/apple-new-artificial-intelligence-rewords-scam-messages-look-legitimate/ Source: Hacker News Title: Apple’s new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Apple’s AI features that rephrase and prioritize notifications, highlighting concerns that these functionalities may inadvertently enhance the likelihood of users falling prey to…

The Register: Many people are saying a luxury Dubai property developer will blow $20B on US datacenters

Jan 7, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/trump_20_billion_datacenter_investment/ Source: The Register Title: Many people are saying a luxury Dubai property developer will blow $20B on US datacenters Feedly Summary: A successful real-estate billionaire and Donald Trump walk into a bar… At a news conference on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump said Dubai-based luxury property developer DAMAC plans to invest $20 billion…

The Register: Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to ‘further clarify’ AI content

Jan 7, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/apple_responds_bbc_complaint/ Source: The Register Title: Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to ‘further clarify’ AI content Feedly Summary: It’s down to users to do the fact-checking themselves Apple plans to update an AI feature that produced an alarmingly incorrect summary of a BBC news story.… AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The…

Cloud Blog: Toward faster incident resolution at Palo Alto Networks with Personalized Service Health

Jan 6, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/personalized-service-health-at-palo-alto-networks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Toward faster incident resolution at Palo Alto Networks with Personalized Service Health Feedly Summary: Cloud incidents happen. And when they do, it’s incumbent on the cloud service provider to communicate about the incident to impacted customers quickly and effectively — and for the cloud service consumer to use…

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…

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