🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn`t end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
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Cloudflare has accused AI startup Perplexity of disregarding website blocks to scrape data, despite being explicitly asked not to. Perplexity allegedly obscured its identity to bypass restrictions and was involved in extensive data-scraping activities. Perplexity denies the claims, calling them a "sales pitch."
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European search engines Qwant and Ecosia launched a joint index, Staan, aiming to be a cost-effective, privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing. Targeting major market share in France and Germany, Staan offers AI capabilities and seeks broader adoption, especially within apps.
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Microsoft's recently-launched NLWeb protocol faced a critical path traversal vulnerability, allowing remote access to sensitive files including API keys. Despite a patch, the flaw raises concerns about Microsoft's security measures as they develop AI-powered systems.
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University demonstrated a "promptware" attack, manipulating Google smart home devices using calendar appointments. By injecting malicious instructions into event descriptions, they tricked Gemini into executing harmful actions. Google has since worked to mitigate the attack.
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🌱 Good First GitHub Issue
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Language:
Repository: Metabase
(Open source business intelligence and analytics platform)
Why: Involves a straightforward change, ideal for learning about selectors and memoization in the codebase.
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⭐ 55, 🖖 0
Git-fetch-file – Sync files from other repos with commit tracking and safety
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⭐ 2297, 🖖 81
Olares: An Open-Source Personal Cloud to Reclaim Your Data
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⭐ 2509, 🖖 72
Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL with automatic sharding.
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⭐ 5963, 🖖 326
A Python library for extracting structured information from unstructured text using LLMs with precise source grounding and interactive visualization.
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⭐ 7545, 🖖 572
qwen-code is a coding agent that lives in digital world.
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