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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/29/217243/vivaldi-browser-doubles-down-on-gen-ai-ban Source: Slashdot Title: Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner emphasizes the company’s stance against integrating generative AI into its browser, arguing that such technologies can dehumanize the web, detract from content creators, and prioritize user data collection…

The Register: Uncle Sam doesn’t want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/uncle_sam_doesnt_want_samsung/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam doesn’t want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China Feedly Summary: End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs The US government already has a lot to say about what products chipmakers…

The Register: Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/pudu_robots_hackable/ Source: The Register Title: Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots Feedly Summary: The admin controls were left wide open on Pudu’s robots A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to…

The Register: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/china_alibaba_ai_accelerator/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Feedly Summary: Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation’s reliance on Nvidia GPUs. … AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

The Register: xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/xais_grok_has_no_place/ Source: The Register Title: xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Feedly Summary: Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole ‘MechaHitler’ thing are all the evidence needed, say authors Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI’s Grok in the…

The Cloudflare Blog: The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawlers-click-ai-bots-training/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals Feedly Summary: By mid-2025, training drives nearly 80% of AI crawling, while referrals to publishers (especially from Google) are falling and crawl-to-refer ratios show AI consumes far more than it sends back. AI Summary and Description:…

The Register: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/ Source: The Register Title: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Feedly Summary: But the cure may ruin the web…. With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language…

The Register: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/github_deepens_ties_with_elon/ Source: The Register Title: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Feedly Summary: Platform’s staffer complains security review was ‘rushed’ Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk’s xAI, bringing early access to the company’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into…

Cloud Blog: From clicks to clusters: Expanding Confidential Computing with Intel TDX

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