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Tag: 2024

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/13/cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-12686 BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2024-48365 Qlik Sense HTTP Tunneling Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities…

  • Slashdot: Snyk Researcher Caught Deploying Malicious Code Targeting AI Startup

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/14/0920245/snyk-researcher-caught-deploying-malicious-code-targeting-ai-startup Source: Slashdot Title: Snyk Researcher Caught Deploying Malicious Code Targeting AI Startup Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a dependency confusion attack targeting Cursor, an AI coding startup, via the publication of malicious NPM packages. This incident raises significant concerns regarding supply chain security and illustrates potential…

  • Hacker News: voyage-code-3

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    Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/voyage-code-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: voyage-code-3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents voyage-code-3, a new embedding model optimized for code retrieval that significantly outperforms existing models in both performance and cost-efficiency. The introduction of Matryoshka learning and advanced quantization techniques allows for reduced storage requirements without compromising…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral 25.01

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/13/codestral-2501/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral 25.01 Feedly Summary: Codestral 25.01 Brand new code-focused model from Mistral. Unlike the first Codestral this one isn’t (yet) available as open weights. The model has a 256k token context – a new record for Mistral. The new model scored an impressive joint first place with…

  • The Register: Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as attackers abuse Aviatrix Controller bug

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/severe_aviatrix_controller_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as attackers abuse Aviatrix Controller bug Feedly Summary: This is what happens when you publish PoCs immediately “Several cloud deployments" are already compromised following the disclosure of the maximum-severity vulnerability in Aviatrix Controller, researchers say.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a…

  • Hacker News: AI Engineer Reading List

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    Source URL: https://www.latent.space/p/2025-papers Source: Hacker News Title: AI Engineer Reading List Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text focuses on providing a curated reading list for AI engineers, particularly emphasizing recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and related AI technologies. It is a practical guide designed to enhance the knowledge…

  • Hacker News: Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/ Source: Hacker News Title: Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Anexia, an Austrian cloud provider, has migrated 12,000 virtual machines (VMs) from VMware to an open-source KVM hypervisor platform due to significant licensing cost increases following Broadcom’s…

  • The Register: Nominet probes network intrusion linked to Ivanti zero-day exploit

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/nominet_ivanti_zero_day/ Source: The Register Title: Nominet probes network intrusion linked to Ivanti zero-day exploit Feedly Summary: Unauthorized activity detected, but no backdoors found UK domain registrar Nominet is investigating a potential intrusion into its network related to the latest Ivanti zero-day exploits.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nominet, the UK domain registrar,…

  • Hacker News: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience

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    Source URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/21/the-canva-outage-another-tale-of-saturation-and-resilience/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident at Canva, detailed by Brendan Humphries, highlights a series of interconnected failures that led to a significant service outage. Notably, a CDN misconfiguration and an API gateway performance…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

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    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/how-openais-bot-crushed-this-seven-person-companys-web-site-like-a-ddos-attack/ Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant incident involving Triplegangers’ CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk, whose e-commerce site was subjected to aggressive scraping by OpenAI’s bot, leading to operational disruptions and…