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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Researchers detail an exploit in GitHub's official MCP server that lets hackers trick an LLM agent into leaking private information about the MCP user — GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (via) GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities …
More: Invariant Labs. Bluesky: @simonwillison.net and @kennwhite
Mastodon: @mikesax@mas.to, @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net, and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
X: @lbeurerkellner and @convexdad
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and Lobsters
| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: Tim Cook declined a WH invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, during which Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang — Apple's chief executive has gone from winning President Trump's praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company's woes in a very bad year.
More: 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, Sydney Morning Herald, Business Standard, Times of India, Neowin, The Mac Observer, Fortune India, iClarified, AppleInsider, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @rembrandt77, and @thefarce.org
Mastodon: @matt@isfeeling.social, @codinghorror@infosec.exchange, @marcoarment@mastodon.social, and @nicklockwood@mastodon.social
X: @jeffjarvis and @rakeshsfnyc
Forums: r/technology and r/apple
| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU says Shein's practices breach rules against false discounts, deceptive product labels, and more, and warn that it could face fines if it doesn't comply — European Union regulators said China-founded e-commerce platform Shein's sales tactics fall foul of EU law and that the company … | Bloomberg: |
Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends — Meta's CEO has done everything he can to win over Trump, and it's not clear how much he has to show for it.
More: Cryptopolitan. Bluesky: @noupside and @noupside. X: @stevesi
Forums: Hacker News and r/politics
| Alexios Mantzarlis / Indicator: |
The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times — I thought someone was gaming X's crowdsourced moderation; instead, they appear to be helping clean up the platform's mess for free.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin — US president's administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets — Antoine Gara, Oliver Barnes and George Steer in New York, Arash Massoudi in London
More: Cointelegraph, Blockchain News, CoinDesk, ZyCrypto, PYMNTS.com, The Block, The Wrap, Raw Story, crypto.news, Wccftech, The Independent, BeInCrypto, NewsMax.com, Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, Crypto Briefing, NFTgators, New York Post, CoinDesk, Jerusalem Post, Times of India, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, and The Guardian
| Wall Street Journal: |
California's population is growing again, rising 0.6% in 2024, with the H-1B visa program being one of the drivers, helping offset the residents who are leaving — A job market without enough ‘homegrown’ engineers drives an influx of workers to the U.S.—and helps offset the residents who are leaving
LinkedIn: Michael W. and Darren Kimura
Forums: Hacker News, r/California_Politics, and r/BayAreaRealEstate
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Palisade Research claims that OpenAI's o3 altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown — A new report claims that OpenAI's o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown.
More: Moneycontrol, The Overspill, Livemint, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Mail, BGR, WinBuzzer, Cyber Security News, BetaNews, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, Hindustan Times, CryptoSlate, The Independent, Digit, Telegraph, and Neowin
Bluesky: @ohffs100, @ruprechtelampblack, @graue, @youranonriots, and @msunformation
Mastodon: @jamesthomson@mastodon.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @palisadeai, @palisadeai, @palisadeai, @palisadeai, and @palisadeai
Forums: r/nottheonion, r/ChatGPT, r/tech, and Slashdot
| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance — Friends want to protect your feelings. AI isn't pulling any punches. — Ania Rucinski was feeling down on herself.
More: New York Post and Tom's Guide
Bluesky: @joffirphd, @frydawolff, @paularmstrongtbd, @hypervisible, and @chanda
| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan is ramping up its defense drone push with help from startups like Coretronic, as giants like TSMC and Foxconn hold back due to a smaller local market — Military's stockpile of about 1,000 drones seen as inadequate in the case of conflict with China| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are contacted via Meta-owned apps, and deepfakes in scams are increasingly common — City-state residents who spend a lot of time online and are naturally compliant with authority are especially vulnerable
More: The Online Citizen, The Straits Times, PYMNTS.com, and Asia Times. Bluesky: @robertscotthorton
| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain, with just three of the 14 authors credited on the landmark 2023 Llama paper still at Meta; several joined Mistral — - Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain as key Llama model creators have exited. — The departures raise concerns about Meta's ability to retain top AI talent.| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A database tracking instances where lawyers got caught presenting AI hallucinations shows that, of 116 cases dating back to June 2023, 20 occurred this month — AI Hallucination Cases (via) Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision …
Bluesky: @caseynewton and @simonwillison.net
| Bloomberg: |
A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, which aims to supply talent to Emirati companies, incubate startups, and serve as the UAE's AI R&D arm — Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI is focused on building an engineering pipeline, incubating homegrown startups, and hypercharging the region's AI development
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