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  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…

  • Slashdot: AI Support Bot Invents Nonexistent Policy

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/18/040257/ai-support-bot-invents-nonexistent-policy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Support Bot Invents Nonexistent Policy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident highlights the risks associated with AI-driven support systems, particularly when misinformation is disseminated as fact. This has implications for user trust and can lead to direct financial impact through subscription cancellations. Detailed Description:…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: MCP Run Python

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/mcp-run-python/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: MCP Run Python Feedly Summary: MCP Run Python Pydantic AI’s MCP server for running LLM-generated Python code in a sandbox. They ended up using a trick I explored two years ago: using a Deno process to run Pyodide in a WebAssembly sandbox. Here’s a bit of a…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1941258/chatgpt-models-are-surprisingly-good-at-geoguessing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT Models Are Surprisingly Good At Geoguessing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a concerning trend related to the use of OpenAI’s new models, o3 and o4-mini, for deducing locations from images, raising potential privacy issues. The models’ advanced image analysis capabilities combined with…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-27-security-announcements-next-25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next ‘25 Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey reviews our top 27 security announcements from Next ‘25.As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted…

  • Slashdot: Meta Blocks Apple Intelligence in iOS Apps

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/17/1539231/meta-blocks-apple-intelligence-in-ios-apps?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Blocks Apple Intelligence in iOS Apps Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s recent decision to disable Apple Intelligence features across its iOS applications highlights ongoing tensions between tech giants over privacy and service integration. This move is seen as a strategic shift towards promoting Meta’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ted Sanders, OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/17/ted-sanders/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ted Sanders, OpenAI Feedly Summary: Our hypothesis is that o4-mini is a much better model, but we’ll wait to hear feedback from developers. Evals only tell part of the story, and we wouldn’t want to prematurely deprecate a model that developers continue to find value in.…

  • The Register: Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/microsoft_copilot_computer_use/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer? Feedly Summary: Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI Microsoft will soon let Copilot agents drive computers through the GUI just like humans – by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and even completing forms on…