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  • The Register: Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/uk_police_lfr_tender/ Source: The Register Title: Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech Feedly Summary: Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy UK government has launched a £20 million ($25 million) competition for tech companies to provide live facial recognition to a number…

  • The Register: Microsoft shuttering dedicated licensing education and certification site

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/microsoft_licensing_info_site_retirement/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft shuttering dedicated licensing education and certification site Feedly Summary: Spreading the content around other sites – and may also sprinkle some AI around because why not Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s binning a site dedicated to software licensing info and education that it currently promotes as “a…

  • Slashdot: Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/25/0539244/craigslist-founder-gives-300m-to-fund-critical-us-infrastructure-cybersecurity?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Craig Newmark expresses serious concerns about cybersecurity risks in the U.S. and is actively funding initiatives to bolster the protection of critical infrastructure. His philanthropic efforts include a combined investment of…

  • Hacker News: The Nearest Neighbor Attack

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    Source URL: https://www.volexity.com/blog/2024/11/22/the-nearest-neighbor-attack-how-a-russian-apt-weaponized-nearby-wi-fi-networks-for-covert-access/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Nearest Neighbor Attack Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the Nearest Neighbor Attack, a novel cyber-espionage technique utilized by the Russian APT group GruesomeLarch to access targets remotely via compromised Wi-Fi networks of nearby organizations. It highlights the importance of strengthening…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/ask-questions-of-sqlite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal Feedly Summary: I built a new plugin for my sqlite-utils CLI tool that lets you ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files on your computer. It’s called sqlite-utils-ask. Here’s how you install it:…

  • The Register: Russian spies may have moved in next door to target your network

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/infosec_news_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Russian spies may have moved in next door to target your network Feedly Summary: Plus: Microsoft seizes phishing domains; Helldown finds new targets; Illegal streaming with Jupyter, and more Infosec in brief Not to make you paranoid, but that business across the street could, under certain conditions, serve…

  • The Register: China sends cloud powered by homebrew Loongson CPUs into space

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/24/asia_tech_news_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: China sends cloud powered by homebrew Loongson CPUs into space Feedly Summary: Plus: Korea cracks down on Temu; US, Vietnam, sign infosec pact; India extends controversial hardware import law; and more Asia In Brief Chinese chip designer Loongson last Friday announced its processors are powering a cloud computing…

  • Hacker News: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

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    Source URL: https://www.recall.ai/post/how-websockets-cost-us-1m-on-our-aws-bill? Source: Hacker News Title: WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the optimization of inter-process communication (IPC) for video processing on AWS, revealing unexpected CPU usage patterns linked to WebSocket implementation, and the shift to shared memory transport to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/24/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: Often, you are told to do this by treating AI like an intern. In retrospect, however, I think that this particular analogy ends up making people use AI in very constrained ways. To put it bluntly, any recent frontier model (by which…