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  • Slashdot: Hacker With ‘Political Agenda’ Stole Data From Columbia, University Says

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/0012219/hacker-with-political-agenda-stole-data-from-columbia-university-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hacker With ‘Political Agenda’ Stole Data From Columbia, University Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The breach of Columbia University’s IT systems by a politically motivated hacker highlights significant vulnerabilities in higher education cybersecurity. This incident exposes highly sensitive data, including Social Security numbers and admissions…

  • Cloud Blog: A guide to converting ADK agents with MCP to the A2A framework

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/unlock-ai-agent-collaboration-convert-adk-agents-for-a2a/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: A guide to converting ADK agents with MCP to the A2A framework Feedly Summary: The evolution of AI agents has led to powerful, specialized models capable of complex tasks. The Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) – a toolkit designed to simplify the construction and management of language model-based…

  • Cloud Blog: Is your database holding you back? Boosting database efficiency and ROI with Cloud SQL

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-cloud-sql-boosts-performance-and-cuts-costs-per-idc/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Is your database holding you back? Boosting database efficiency and ROI with Cloud SQL Feedly Summary: Editor’s Note: Today, we’re sharing insights from IDC Research Director, Devin Pratt, as he offers his analysis of recent research on Cloud SQL. In this post, you’ll see how Cloud SQL’s highly…

  • Cloud Blog: How to build a simple multi-agentic system using Google’s ADK

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/build-multi-agentic-systems-using-google-adk/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to build a simple multi-agentic system using Google’s ADK Feedly Summary: Agents are top of mind for enterprises, but often we find customers building one “super” agent – a jack of all trades – instead creating multiple agents that can specialize and work together. Monolithic agents often…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/science/ai-psychology-mind.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All Feedly Summary: To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: PDFs: Portable documents, or perfect deliveries for phish?

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/pdfs-portable-documents-or-perfect-deliveries-for-phish/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: PDFs: Portable documents, or perfect deliveries for phish? Feedly Summary: A popular social engineering technique returns: callback phishing, or TOAD attacks, which leverage PDFs, VoIP anonymity and even QR code tricks. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cisco’s update to its brand impersonation detection engine enhances email…

  • The Register: Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/02/postgresql_ondisk_database_encryption/ Source: The Register Title: Coming to PostgreSQL: On-disk database encryption Feedly Summary: Open source initiative aims to offer enterprise security feature without vendor lock-in Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a popular approach to encrypting data at the storage layer, beefing up database security. While PostgreSQL has steadily climbed in popularity – especially…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kevin Webb

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/1/kevin-webb/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kevin Webb Feedly Summary: One of the best examples of LLM developer tooling I’ve heard is from a team that supports software from the 80s-90s. Their only source of documentation is video interviews with retired employees. So they feed them into transcription software and get summarized…

  • The Register: Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare_creates_ai_crawler_toll/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers Feedly Summary: The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down ai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet’s gatekeeper.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a…