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  • Slashdot: Over 100 Public Software Companies Getting ‘Squeezed’ by AI, Study Finds

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/1443240/over-100-public-software-companies-getting-squeezed-by-ai-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Over 100 Public Software Companies Getting ‘Squeezed’ by AI, Study Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent AlixPartners study highlighting the precarious position of over 100 mid-market software companies due to competition from AI-native startups and tech giants. As generative AI advances,…

  • Unit 42: False Face: Unit 42 Demonstrates the Alarming Ease of Synthetic Identity Creation

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=139512 Source: Unit 42 Title: False Face: Unit 42 Demonstrates the Alarming Ease of Synthetic Identity Creation Feedly Summary: North Korean IT workers are reportedly using real-time deepfakes to secure remote work, raising serious security concerns. We explore the implications. The post False Face: Unit 42 Demonstrates the Alarming Ease of Synthetic Identity…

  • Slashdot: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS?

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/0026255/can-you-run-the-llama-2-llm-on-dos Source: Slashdot Title: Can You Run the Llama 2 LLM on DOS? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text revolves around an innovative project by an embedded security researcher who successfully ported Llama 2, a large language model (LLM), to run on vintage DOS machines. This challenges the conventional…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: In some tasks, AI is unreliable. In others, it is superhuman. You could, of course, say the same thing about calculators, but it is also clear that AI is different. It is already demonstrating general capabilities and performing a wide range of…

  • Slashdot: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/20/0332214/open-source-advocate-argues-deepseek-is-a-movement-its-linux-all-over-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is ‘a Movement… It’s Linux All Over Again’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of DeepSeek as an influential open-source AI model and its impact on global collaboration in AI development, particularly highlighting the role of platforms…

  • Slashdot: US Chipmakers Fear Ceding China’s AI Market to Huawei After New Trump Restrictions

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/19/2339227/us-chipmakers-fear-ceding-chinas-ai-market-to-huawei-after-new-trump-restrictions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Chipmakers Fear Ceding China’s AI Market to Huawei After New Trump Restrictions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of the Trump administration’s restrictions on AI chip sales to China, particularly affecting major U.S. companies like Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. The regulations…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-general-availability-of-memorystore-for-valkey/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Memorystore, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis and Memcached, plays an increasingly important role in our…

  • The Register: CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/splintering_cve_bug_tracking/ Source: The Register Title: CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun Feedly Summary: MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF? Comment The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the fragmentation…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/2224205/microsoft-researchers-develop-hyper-efficient-ai-model-that-can-run-on-cpus?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Researchers Develop Hyper-Efficient AI Model That Can Run On CPUs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has launched BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a highly efficient 1-bit AI model featuring 2 billion parameters, optimized for CPU use and accessible under an MIT license. It surpasses competitors in…