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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

Unpacking the Microsoft agent framework www.infoworld.com/ar... | Bringing together two very different ways of building AI applications is a challenging task. Has Microsoft bitten off more than it can chew?

Unpacking the Microsoft Agent Framework

Bringing together two very different ways of building AI applications is a challenging task. Has Microsoft bitten off more than it can chew?

www.infoworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks

The empty boulevards that once symbolized the mainland’s property bust now serve as testing grounds for hundreds of autonomous vehicles.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic www.theregister.com/... via @theregister

Data quantity doesn't matter when poisoning an LLM

: Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset

www.theregister.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

Google's third folding Pixel is a lean, mean productivity supermachine — but only one specific question can tell you if it's the right phone for you

One question to ask yourself about Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold

Google's third folding Pixel is a lean, mean productivity supermachine — but only one specific question can tell you if it's the right phone for you.

www.computerworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

Rubik’s Cube gets a $299 update, complete with IPS screens and its own apps

The Rubik’s WOWCube is a 2×2 cube with modern twists.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software under investigation for traffic safety violations techcrunch.com/2025/... via @techcrunch

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation for traffic safety violations | TechCrunch

The U.S.' top auto safety agency said it had identified more than 50 reports of FSD running red lights, crossing yellow lines, or making illegal turns.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

Ferrari's first EV is coming next year with big speed, big sound and a Jony Ive design

Ferrari unveiled the first proper details about its first EV, the Elettrica, which is set to fully debut next year.

www.engadget.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

Tasklet is IFTTT for the agentic age thenewstack.io/taskl... via @thenewstack

Tasklet Is IFTTT for the Agentic Age

Tasklet.ai is launching out of beta today. Instead of using code or a graphical drag-and-drop interface, you create your agent by chatting with it.

thenewstack.io

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 2d

YouTube launches a pilot program to give terminated creators a “second chance” by letting them apply to create a new channel

YouTube will give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback

YouTube is rolling out a feature for previously terminated channels to apply to create a new channel after scrutiny from Republicans and President Donald Trump.

www.cnbc.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

How GitHub won software development www.infoworld.com/ar... via @InfoWorld | Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest

How GitHub won software development

Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest.

www.infoworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes restofworld.org/2025... | AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT www.theregister.com/... | Microsoft Copilot, not so much

Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT

: Microsoft Copilot, not so much

www.theregister.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems venturebeat.com/ai/s... via @VentureBeat

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms arstechnica.com/ai/2... | OpenAI, Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential lawsuits

Insurers balk at paying out huge settlements for claims against AI firms

OpenAI, Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential lawsuits.

arstechnica.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

‘It made my day more meaningful’: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use

Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive phone time – but what is it like to restrict scrolling to 120 minutes a day?

www.theguardian.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

Zendesk says its new AI agent can solve 80% of support issues techcrunch.com/2025/... via @techcrunch

Zendesk says its new AI agent can solve 80% of support issues | TechCrunch

Zendesk has launched a new autonomous support agent that should solve 80% of support issues without human intervention.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

Gemini 2.5 Ccomputer Use is an AI model that can browse the web like you do www.bgr.com/1990505/... via @BGR

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Is An AI Model That Can Browse The Web Like You Do - BGR

Gemini 2.5 Computer Use is Google's latest AI model that can browse web pages and perform human-like tasks, from reorganizing sticky notes to playing 2048.

www.bgr.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

JavaScript library runs machine learning models in browser thenewstack.io/javas... via @thenewstack

JavaScript Library Runs Machine Learning Models in Browser

AsterMind-ELM is a modular, Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) library for JavaScript and TypeScript. We speak to its creator.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 3d

A website set up by a Danish software developer floods EU lawmakers with emails opposing planned EU “Chat Control” laws to fight CSAM by scanning encrypted apps www.politico.eu/arti... via @politico

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

www.politico.eu

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

How to write nonfunctional requirements for AI agents

Nonfunctional requirements for AI agents are similar to NFRs for traditional applications, but they require additional layers. Here are the key areas to focus on, with examples to help you get started.

www.infoworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

The Chinese migrant workers powering the deadly EV nickel boom restofworld.org/2025... | 30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition

The Chinese migrant workers powering the deadly EV nickel boom

30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition.

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Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

How your mouse could eavesdrop on you and rat you out www.theregister.com/... via @theregister | Mic-E-Mouse can roar by literally vibe hacking speech

How your mouse could eavesdrop and rat you out

: Mic-E-Mouse can roar by literally vibe hacking speech

www.theregister.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

From pilot to production: How large enterprises can scale XR projects

When it comes to rolling out corporate AR and VR systems, GE, Ford, FedEx, Daimler, and Volvo have learned what works — and what doesn’t. The deployment ride can sometimes be bumpy.

www.computerworld.com

Liberation Technology @liberationtech.bsky.social · 4d

Floating electrons on a sea of helium arstechnica.com/scie... | Yes, it's another potential qubit. But it's also some very cool physics

Floating electrons on a sea of helium

Yes, it’s another potential qubit. But it’s also some very cool physics.

arstechnica.com