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  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2025-annual-founders-letter/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter Feedly Summary: Cloudflare launched 15 years ago. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet. But we’ve also been thinking a lot about what’s changed on the Internet. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: You don’t need quantum hardware for post-quantum security

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/you-dont-need-quantum-hardware/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: You don’t need quantum hardware for post-quantum security Feedly Summary: Post-quantum cryptography protects against quantum threats using today’s hardware. Quantum tech like QKD may sound appealing, but it isn’t necessary or sufficient to secure organizations. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text addresses the looming threat…

  • Slashdot: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2338214/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the difficult working conditions of AI raters contracted by Google through Hitachi’s GlobalLogic, highlighting issues such as high pressure, job disillusionment, and the precarious nature of…

  • Slashdot: Secure Software Supply Chains, Urges Former Go Lead Russ Cox

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/21/0650219/secure-software-supply-chains-urges-former-go-lead-russ-cox?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Secure Software Supply Chains, Urges Former Go Lead Russ Cox Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text emphasizes the critical need for enhancing software supply chain security, particularly in the face of ongoing vulnerabilities. It outlines practical solutions, such as adopting software signatures and reproducible builds,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • Slashdot: Cyberattack Delays Flights at Several of Europe’s Major Airports

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2119232/cyberattack-delays-flights-at-several-of-europes-major-airports?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cyberattack Delays Flights at Several of Europe’s Major Airports Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a cyberattack that disrupted check-in and boarding systems across several major European airports, exposing vulnerabilities in these security systems. Despite limited impact on travelers, the incident highlights the ongoing…

  • Slashdot: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips?

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/0120220/is-openais-video-generating-tool-sora-scraping-unauthorized-youtube-clips Source: Slashdot Title: Is OpenAI’s Video-Generating Tool ‘Sora’ Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s video generation tool, Sora, highlighting its ability to create high-definition video clips by utilizing publicly available and licensed data. Concerns are raised regarding copyright implications, as Sora has…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: httpjail

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/httpjail/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: httpjail Feedly Summary: httpjail Here’s a promising new (experimental) project in the sandboxing space from Ammar Bandukwala at Coder. httpjail provides a Rust CLI tool for running an individual process against a custom configured HTTP proxy. The initial goal is to help run coding agents like Claude…

  • The Register: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/meta_wholesale_leccy/ Source: The Register Title: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity Feedly Summary: With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…