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- AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%by Benj Edwards
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
- MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals togetherby Benj Edwards
Model context protocol standardizes how AI uses data sources, supported by OpenAI and Anthropic.
- What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.by Makena Kelly, wired.com
A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.
- Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light databy Benj Edwards
New Spectral JPEG XL compression reduces file sizes, making spectral imaging more practical.
- Oracle has reportedly suffered 2 separate breaches exposing thousands of customers‘ PIIby Dan Goodin
Alleged breaches affect Oracle Cloud and Oracle Health.
- Gemini hackers can deliver more potent attacks with a helping hand from… Geminiby Dan Goodin
Hacking LLMs has always been more art than science. A new attack on Gemini could change that.
- OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provokeby Benj Edwards
The visual apocalypse is probably nigh, but perhaps seeing was never believing.
- Broadcom’s VMware says Siemens pirated “thousands” of copies of its softwareby Scharon Harding
VMware claims Siemens showed it a list of the VMware products it’s using unlicensed.
- Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countriesby Benj Edwards
AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.
- Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providersby Matt Burgess, wired.com
Some European cloud companies have seen an increase in business.