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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: @kennwhite and @simonwillison.net
Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange, @mikesax@mas.to, and @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
| 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, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, Sydney Morning Herald, Business Standard, Fortune India, The Mac Observer, Times of India, AppleInsider, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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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 … | 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, CoinDesk, ZyCrypto, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, The Block, The Wrap, Reuters, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, New York Post, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, Wccftech, CoinDesk, The Independent, BeInCrypto, Bitcoin Magazine, NFTgators, Times of India, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, and The Guardian
| 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
| 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, Daily Mail, WinBuzzer, Livemint, The Gateway Pundit, BGR, 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
| 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.| 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
| 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
| 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.| 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
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Highlights from the system prompts of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, including model safety, avoiding sycophancy, and not regurgitating copyrighted content — Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes.
More: Don't Worry About the Vase, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Decoder, and Anthropic
Bluesky: @pekka, @drasticactions.dev, @rjcc, @lukaszolejnik, and @simonwillison.net
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| 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
LinkedIn: Eric Xing
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