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  • The Register: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/cobol_in_the_public_sector_feature/ Source: The Register Title: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Feedly Summary: Government: ‘Trust us, it’ll be different this time’ Feature The UK government has gone all-in on AI. More than 50 years after Harold Wilson gave his famous “White heat of technology" speech, this is the hot…

  • Cloud Blog: Designing a multi-tenant GKE platform for Yahoo Mail’s migration journey

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/understanding-yahoo-mails-multi-tenant-gke-platform-design/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Designing a multi-tenant GKE platform for Yahoo Mail’s migration journey Feedly Summary: Yahoo is in the midst of a multi-year journey to migrate its renowned Yahoo Mail application onto Google Cloud. With more than 100 services and middleware components in the application, Yahoo Mail is primarily taking a…

  • Slashdot: China’s Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/1536215/chinas-lead-in-open-source-ai-jolts-washington-and-silicon-valley?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights China’s advancements in open-source AI, particularly how their leading model surpasses that of OpenAI, raising significant concerns among U.S. policymakers and the tech industry. This shift emphasizes the…

  • Slashdot: US Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments To Catch Diversions To China

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/1355200/us-embeds-trackers-in-ai-chip-shipments-to-catch-diversions-to-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments To Catch Diversions To China Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the U.S. authorities’ covert implementation of location tracking devices in shipments of advanced chips deemed at risk of being illegally diverted to China, highlighting the ongoing…

  • Cloud Blog: The University of Hawaii is helping the state retain top talent with Google AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/the-university-of-hawaii-is-helping-the-state-retain-top-talent-with-google-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The University of Hawaii is helping the state retain top talent with Google AI Feedly Summary: As the Hawaiian Islands’ primary higher education resource, the University of Hawaii (UH) System faces a unique challenge among U.S. universities: many graduates–including those with deep family roots in Hawaii – are…

  • Wired: An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-model-for-the-brain-is-coming-to-the-icu-cleveland-clinic-piramidal/ Source: Wired Title: An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU Feedly Summary: The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor patients in the ICU. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and startup…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/ai-for-data-engineers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison Feedly Summary: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was “AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an enjoyable range of different…

  • The Register: How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75%

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/openai_mxfp4/ Source: The Register Title: How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75% Feedly Summary: Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved Analysis Whether or not OpenAI’s new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but…