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  • Wired: Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/these-psychological-tricks-can-get-llms-to-respond-to-forbidden-prompts/ Source: Wired Title: Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Feedly Summary: Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses researchers’ exploration of conversational tactics used to manipulate large language model (LLM)…

  • The Register: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/ Source: The Register Title: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features Feedly Summary: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options Among the software developers who use Microsoft’s GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request…

  • The Register: Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/clickfix_castlerat_malware/ Source: The Register Title: Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python Feedly Summary: Pro tip, don’t install PowerShell commands without approval A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing EmbeddingGemma

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/4/embedding-gemma/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Feedly Summary: Introducing EmbeddingGemma Brand new open weights (under the slightly janky Gemma license) 308M parameter embedding model from Google: Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, EmbeddingGemma is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with…

  • Cloud Blog: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/how-baseten-achieves-better-cost-performance-for-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too) Feedly Summary: Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers,…

  • The Register: Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn’t after security fix

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/windows_admin_rights_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn’t after security fix Feedly Summary: Patch closes vuln but leaves standard users locked out of common apps Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.……

  • Slashdot: New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/03/2312210/new-ai-model-turns-photos-into-explorable-3d-worlds-with-caveats?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Tencent’s release of HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model for generating 3D-consistent video sequences from single images, represents a significant advancement in generative AI technology. Despite its limitations, this innovation has…

  • Slashdot: India’s AI Story Is ‘All Talk, Little Substance,’ Says Bernstein

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/04/1231230/indias-ai-story-is-all-talk-little-substance-says-bernstein?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: India’s AI Story Is ‘All Talk, Little Substance,’ Says Bernstein Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a warning from investment research firm Bernstein regarding potential challenges that India faces in the AI sector due to aggressive pricing strategies from US technology companies. The report…

  • The Register: France fines Google, SHEIN, for undercooked Cookie policies that led to crummy privacy

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/france_google_shein_cookie_fines/ Source: The Register Title: France fines Google, SHEIN, for undercooked Cookie policies that led to crummy privacy Feedly Summary: Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission France’s data protection authority levied massive fines against Google and SHEIN for dropping cookies on customers without securing their permission, and also…