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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cursor: Security

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/cursor-security/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cursor: Security Feedly Summary: Cursor: Security Cursor’s security documentation page includes a surprising amount of detail about how the Cursor text editor’s backend systems work. I’ve recently learned that checking an organization’s list of documented subprocessors is a great way to get a feel for how everything…

  • Slashdot: Google Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas to Settle Claims It Collected User Data Without Permission

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/0430217/google-will-pay-14-billion-to-texas-to-settle-claims-it-collected-user-data-without-permission?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Texas to Settle Claims It Collected User Data Without Permission Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The settlement between Google and the state of Texas addresses significant privacy violations related to data collection practices. This event underscores the ongoing scrutiny tech…

  • Wired: Silence Speaks Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/silence-speaks-deaf-ai-signing/ Source: Wired Title: Silence Speaks Has Created AI-Powered Signing Avatars for the Deaf Feedly Summary: New technology from British startup Silence Speaks enables an AI-generated sign language avatar to effectively give the deaf and hard of hearing an interpreter in their pocket. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: QUIC restarts, slow problems: udpgrm to the rescue

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-restarts-slow-problems-udpgrm-to-the-rescue/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: QUIC restarts, slow problems: udpgrm to the rescue Feedly Summary: udpgrm is a lightweight daemon for graceful restarts of UDP servers. It leverages SO_REUSEPORT and eBPF to route new and existing flows to the correct server instance. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Slashdot: Irish Privacy Watchdog Fines TikTok $600 Million For China Data Transfers

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/02/2032203/irish-privacy-watchdog-fines-tiktok-600-million-for-china-data-transfers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Irish Privacy Watchdog Fines TikTok $600 Million For China Data Transfers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant regulatory action by the European Union against TikTok, fining the company for improper data transfer practices and potential risks to user privacy. This case is…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude feature drop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/claude-search/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude feature drop Feedly Summary: It’s not in their release notes yet but Anthropic pushed some big new features today. Alex Albert: We’ve improved web search and rolled it out worldwide to all paid plans. Web search now combines light Research functionality, allowing Claude to automatically adjust…