Tag: 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/deloitte-to-pay-money-back/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Feedly Summary: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Ouch: Deloitte will provide a partial refund to the federal government over a $440,000 report that contained…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/work-independently/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user Feedly Summary: I’ve settled on agents as meaning “LLMs calling tools in a loop to achieve a goal" but OpenAI continue to muddy the waters with much more vague definitions. Swyx spotted this one in…

The Register: Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/microsoft_blames_medusa_ransomware_affiliates/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried Feedly Summary: You can’t find anything bad if you don’t look, right? Medusa ransomware affiliates are among those exploiting a maximum-severity bug in Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.……

Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-image-1-mini

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-image-1-mini/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-image-1-mini Feedly Summary: gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as “A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly – I didn’t hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 pro

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-5-pro/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 pro Feedly Summary: GPT-5 pro Here’s OpenAI’s model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, 2024 knowledge cutoff and 400,000 context limit. GPT-5 pro has maximum…

The Register: Level-10 vuln lurking in Redis source code for 13 years could allow remote code execution

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/perfect_10_redis_rce_lurking/ Source: The Register Title: Level-10 vuln lurking in Redis source code for 13 years could allow remote code execution Feedly Summary: No evidence of exploitation … yet A 13-year-old critical flaw in Redis servers, rated a perfect 10 out of 10 in severity, can let an authenticated user trigger remote code execution.……

Microsoft Security Blog: Investigating active exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer vulnerability

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/06/investigating-active-exploitation-of-cve-2025-10035-goanywhere-managed-file-transfer-vulnerability/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Investigating active exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer vulnerability Feedly Summary: Storm-1175, a financially motivated actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware and exploiting public-facing applications for initial access, was observed exploiting the deserialization vulnerability in GoAnywhere MFT’s License Servlet, tracked as CVE-2025-10035. We are publishing this…

The Register: Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/deloitte_ai_report_australia/ Source: The Register Title: Deloitte refunds Aussie gov after AI fabrications slip into $440K welfare report Feedly Summary: Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot Deloitte has agreed to refund part of an Australian government contract after admitting it used generative AI…

AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)

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