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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/china_us_chip_competition/ Source: The Register Title: China just two years behind USA on chip design, says White House tech Czar Feedly Summary: Expects Huawei to start exporting AI chips soon, creating global fight for tech stack dominance China’s AI and chipmaking prowess lags the USA’s by just two years, and America’s efforts to slow…

Slashdot: Microsoft 365 Brings the Shutters Down On Legacy Protocols

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/19/2046206/microsoft-365-brings-the-shutters-down-on-legacy-protocols?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft 365 Brings the Shutters Down On Legacy Protocols Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Microsoft 365 is set to enhance security by blocking legacy authentication protocols starting July 2025 as part of its “Secure by Default” initiative. This move aims to mitigate risks associated with vulnerable…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

The Register: Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/the_microsoft_axeman_is_coming/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols Feedly Summary: FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of ‘Secure by Default’ Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from July, meaning that anyone who hasn’t…

The Register: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/uk_gov_asks_university_boffins/ Source: The Register Title: UK gov asks university boffins to pinpoint cyber growth areas where it should splash cash Feedly Summary: Good to see government that values its academics (cough cough). Plus: New board criticized for lacking ‘ops’ people Cybersecurity experts have started a formal review into the UK cybersecurity market, at…

Slashdot: Midjourney Launches Its First AI Video Generation Model, V1

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/18/1935234/midjourney-launches-its-first-ai-video-generation-model-v1 Source: Slashdot Title: Midjourney Launches Its First AI Video Generation Model, V1 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Midjourney has launched its AI video generation model, V1, allowing users to create customizable short videos from images. This move positions the startup as a competitor to established entities in the AI…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/context-rot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News Feedly Summary: They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot…

Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: Enhanced vectorization in the advanced runtime

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-bigquery-enhanced-vectorization/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: Enhanced vectorization in the advanced runtime Feedly Summary: Under the hood, there’s a lot of technology and expertise that goes into delivering the performance you get from BigQuery, Google Cloud’s data to AI platform. Separating storage and compute provides unique resource allocation flexibility and…

Cloud Blog: Automate data resilience at scale with Eon and Google Cloud Backup

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