Tag: 2024

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/amd_q4_fy2024/ Source: The Register Title: Who’s afraid of DeepSeek’s impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Feedly Summary: Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive AMD’s chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer’s Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of…

The Register: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/google_amd_microcode/ Source: The Register Title: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number Feedly Summary: Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its…

The Register: Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/cyberattack_on_nhs_hospitals_sees/ Source: The Register Title: Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets Feedly Summary: Healthcare chiefs say impact will persist for months NHS execs admit that last year’s cyberattack on hospitals in Wirral, northwest England, continues to “significantly" impact waiting times for cancer treatments, and suspect this will last for…

Unit 42: Stealers on the Rise: A Closer Look at a Growing macOS Threat

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Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=138244 Source: Unit 42 Title: Stealers on the Rise: A Closer Look at a Growing macOS Threat Feedly Summary: Atomic Stealer, Poseidon Stealer and Cthulhu Stealer target macOS. We discuss their various properties and examine leverage of the AppleScript framework. The post Stealers on the Rise: A Closer Look at a Growing macOS…

The Register: Google patches odd Android kernel security bug amid signs of targeted exploitation

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/google_android_patch_netgear/ Source: The Register Title: Google patches odd Android kernel security bug amid signs of targeted exploitation Feedly Summary: Also, Netgear fixes critical router, access point vulnerabilities Google has released its February Android security updates, including a fix for a high-severity kernel-level vulnerability, which is suspected to be in use by targeted exploits.……

Hacker News: AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability

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Source URL: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4xq7-4mgh-gp6w Source: Hacker News Title: AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security vulnerability in AMD Zen-based CPUs identified by Google’s Security Team, which allows local administrator-level attacks on the microcode verification process. This is significant for professionals in infrastructure and hardware…

Hacker News: Evaluating Code Embedding Models

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Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/code-retrieval-eval/ Source: Hacker News Title: Evaluating Code Embedding Models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and limitations within the field of code retrieval, particularly as it pertains to embedding models used in coding assistants. It highlights the need for high-quality benchmarking datasets, identifies typical subtasks…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/constitutional-classifiers/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Feedly Summary: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Interesting new research from Anthropic, resulting in the paper Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming. From the paper: In particular, we introduce Constitutional Classifiers, a framework…

Hacker News: Google removed 2.36M apps from Google Play using AI threat detection

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