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  • Slashdot: Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0235251/some-angry-github-users-are-rebelling-against-githubs-forced-copilot-ai-features?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the growing dissent among software developers regarding Microsoft’s Copilot AI service integrated with GitHub. Key concerns revolve around the inability to disable Copilot’s functionalities and its…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/07/2149212/microsofts-cloud-services-disrupted-by-red-sea-cable-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights the recent disruption of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services due to undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, impacting internet traffic in the Middle East and parts of Asia. This…

  • The Register: CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack Feedly Summary: Plus: Google clears up Gmail concerns, NSA drops SBOM bomb, Texas sues PowerSchool, and more Infosec in brief The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has said two flaws in routers made by Chinese networking biz…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/stopping-ransomware-before-it-starts/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response Feedly Summary: Explore lessons learned from over two years of Talos IR pre-ransomware engagements, highlighting the key security measures, indicators and recommendations that have proven effective in stopping ransomware attacks before they begin. AI Summary and…

  • The Register: Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/anthropic_settles_author_lawsuit/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Feedly Summary: Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? Feedly Summary: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? More from Mike Caulfield (see also the SIFT method). He starts with a fantastic example of Google’s AI mode…

  • The Register: Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/ Source: The Register Title: Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says Feedly Summary: Researchers also found that more than half of citations didn’t rank in top 100 for term Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the…

  • 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)…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jason Liu

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/jason-liu/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jason Liu Feedly Summary: I am once again shocked at how much better image retrieval performance you can get if you embed highly opinionated summaries of an image, a summary that came out of a visual language model, than using CLIP embeddings themselves. If you tell…