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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/18/google-gemini-url-context/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Google Gemini URL Context Feedly Summary: Google Gemini URL Context New feature in the Gemini API: you can now enable a url_context tool which the models can use to request the contents of URLs as part of replying to a prompt. I released llm-gemini 0.25 with a…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/the-summer-of-johann/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see Feedly Summary: Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger has had an absurdly busy August. Under the heading The Month of AI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an array of different…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses

Aug 14, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-new-threat-horizons-details-evolving-risks-and-defenses/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, our Office of the CISO’s Bob Mechler and Anton Chuvakin dive into the key trends and evolving threats that we tracked in our…

Slashdot: China’s Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley

Aug 13, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/1536215/chinas-lead-in-open-source-ai-jolts-washington-and-silicon-valley?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights China’s advancements in open-source AI, particularly how their leading model surpasses that of OpenAI, raising significant concerns among U.S. policymakers and the tech industry. This shift emphasizes the…

Embrace The Red: GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/github-copilot-remote-code-execution-via-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773) Feedly Summary: This post is about an important, but also scary, prompt injection discovery that leads to full system compromise of the developer’s machine in GitHub Copilot and VS Code. It is achieved by placing Copilot into YOLO…

Cisco Talos Blog: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-august-2025/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Microsoft has released its monthly security update for August 2025, which includes 111 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 13 that Microsoft marked as “critical”. In this month’s release, Microsoft observed none of…

Slashdot: LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/2253229/llms-simulated-reasoning-abilities-are-a-brittle-mirage-researchers-find?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Recent investigations into chain-of-thought reasoning models in AI reveal limitations in their logical reasoning capabilities, suggesting they operate more as pattern-matchers than true reasoners. The findings raise crucial concerns for industries…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/llm-027/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.27, the annotated release notes: GPT-5 and improved tool calling Feedly Summary: I shipped LLM 0.27 today, adding support for the new GPT-5 family of models from OpenAI plus a flurry of improvements to the tool calling features introduced in LLM 0.26. Here are the annotated…

Slashdot: UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration Databases

Aug 8, 2025

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