Tag: 2025

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/qwen3-next/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B: 🐧🦩 Who needs legs?! Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Qwen announced two new models via their Twitter account (nothing on their blog yet): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. They make some big claims on performance: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct approaches our 235B flagship. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking outperforms Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking. The name “80B-A3B" indicates 80 billion parameters…

AWS News Blog: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-serverless-testing-with-localstack-integration-in-vs-code-ide/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE Feedly Summary: AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent…

The Register: Hijacker helper VoidProxy boosts Google, Microsoft accounts on demand

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/voidproxy_phishing_service/ Source: The Register Title: Hijacker helper VoidProxy boosts Google, Microsoft accounts on demand Feedly Summary: Okta uncovers new phishing-as-a-service operation with ‘multiple entities’ falling victim Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations’ Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users’ credentials, multi-factor authentication codes, and session tokens…

Krebs on Security: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions

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Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/bulletproof-host-stark-industries-evades-eu-sanctions/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions Feedly Summary: In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and…

The Register: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/cobalt_strikes_ai_successor_downloaded/ Source: The Register Title: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months Feedly Summary: Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack – sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as “Cobalt Strike’s…

Cloud Blog: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/prove-your-expertise-with-our-new-secops-engineer-certification/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification Feedly Summary: Security leaders are clear about their priorities: After AI, cloud security is the top training topic for decision-makers. As threats against cloud workloads become more sophisticated, organizations are looking for highly-skilled professionals to help defend against…

The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…

The Register: Senator blasts Microsoft for ‘dangerous, insecure software’ that helped pwn US hospitals

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/wyden_microsoft_insecure/ Source: The Register Title: Senator blasts Microsoft for ‘dangerous, insecure software’ that helped pwn US hospitals Feedly Summary: Ron Wyden urges FTC to probe failure to secure Windows after attackers used Kerberoasting to cripple Ascension Microsoft is back in the firing line after US Senator Ron Wyden accused Redmond of shipping “dangerous,…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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