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It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App

Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more.

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Simon Willison10h ago

Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool

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Agentic Engineering Patterns > Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a lot of work done in a single shot. First, some background. I send out a free Substack newsletter around once a week containing content copied-and-pasted from my blog. I'm effectively using Substack as a...

The Register4h ago

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

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Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed Not only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can be an issue too.…

Simon Willison1 day ago

datasette 1.0a28

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Datasette released version 1.0a28 to address critical bugs discovered during an upgrade of Datasette Cloud from the previous alpha version 1.0a27. The release fixes a compatibility issue affecting execute_write_fn() callbacks and their parameter handling, which had been inadvertently broken in the prior version.

The Verge22h ago

This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

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I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd absolutely pick it up. But aside from obviously...

The Verge22h ago

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

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Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal....