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The Register: Japanese Police claim China ran five-year cyberattack campaign

Jan 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/japan_mirrorface_china_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Japanese Police claim China ran five-year cyberattack campaign Feedly Summary: ‘MirrorFace’ group found ways to run malware in the Windows sandbox, which is worrying Japan’s National Police Agency and Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity have confirmed third party reports of attacks on local orgs by…

The Register: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

Jan 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/backdoored_backdoors/ Source: The Register Title: Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed Feedly Summary: Here’s what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts…

Hacker News: AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s

Dec 18, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2024/keynote-meredith-whittaker/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meredith Whittaker is a prominent figure in the tech industry, particularly in the fields of privacy and artificial intelligence. Her extensive experience across academia, government, and industry, along with her advisory…

Cloud Blog: Orchestrating GPU-based distributed training workloads on AI Hypercomputer

Dec 13, 2024

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gpu-orchestration-options-on-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Orchestrating GPU-based distributed training workloads on AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: When it comes to AI, large language models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML) are taking entire industries to the next level. But with larger models and datasets, developers need distributed environments that span multiple AI accelerators (e.g. GPUs…

Hacker News: Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI

Nov 24, 2024

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Source URL: https://gizmodo.com/judge-rules-in-favor-of-school-that-gave-student-a-bad-grade-for-using-ai-2000528368 Source: Hacker News Title: Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a legal case involving a student from Hingham, Massachusetts, who was disciplined for using generative AI to complete an assignment. The…

Hacker News: School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

Nov 23, 2024

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Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/school-did-nothing-wrong-when-it-punished-student-for-using-ai-court-rules/ Source: Hacker News Title: School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent ruling from a federal court highlighted the complexities surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational settings, particularly regarding policies and regulations governing…

Hacker News: Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge

Nov 14, 2024

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Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13740 Source: Hacker News Title: Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research paper on language models by Michael D. Skarlinski and colleagues reveals that the PaperQA2 model surpasses the performance of human experts in conducting literature searches and identifying contradictions in…

The Register: AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers

Nov 12, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/12/aws_trainium_researchers/ Source: The Register Title: AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers Feedly Summary: Throwing novel hardware at academia. It’s a tale as old as time Amazon wants more people building applications and frameworks for its custom Trainium accelerators and is making up to 40,000 chips available to university researchers…

Microsoft Security Blog: Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files

Nov 1, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/29/midnight-blizzard-conducts-large-scale-spear-phishing-campaign-using-rdp-files/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files Feedly Summary: Since October 22, 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard sending a series of highly targeted spear-phishing emails to individuals in government, academia, defense, non-governmental organizations, and other sectors. This activity is…

The Register: Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive

Oct 30, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/russia_wrangles_rdp_files_in/ Source: The Register Title: Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive Feedly Summary: The prolific Midnight Blizzard crew cast a much wider net in search of scrummy intel Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia’s foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second week, and…

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