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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/ai-for-data-engineers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison Feedly Summary: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was “AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an enjoyable range of different…

Slashdot: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/025214/how-python-is-fighting-open-sources-phantom-dependencies-problem?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Python Software Foundation is addressing the “phantom dependencies” issue in software packages by introducing the Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) through Python Enhancement Proposal 770. This initiative enhances metadata accessibility, making it easier…

The Register: How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75%

Aug 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/openai_mxfp4/ Source: The Register Title: How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75% Feedly Summary: Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved Analysis Whether or not OpenAI’s new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but…

Slashdot: Initiative Seeks AI Lab to Build ‘American Truly Open Models’ (ATOM)

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/09/1916243/initiative-seeks-ai-lab-to-build-american-truly-open-models-atom?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Initiative Seeks AI Lab to Build ‘American Truly Open Models’ (ATOM) Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of the ATOM Project, aimed at enhancing U.S. open-source AI competitiveness, highlighting a significant gap in open-source AI development in the country compared to China.…

Cisco Talos Blog: ReVault! When your SoC turns against you… deep dive edition

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/revault-when-your-soc-turns-against-you-2/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: ReVault! When your SoC turns against you… deep dive edition Feedly Summary: Talos reported 5 vulnerabilities to Broadcom and Dell affecting both the ControlVault3 Firmware and its associated Windows APIs that we are calling “ReVault”. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text conducts an in-depth analysis…

Docker: Remocal and Minimum Viable Models: Why Right-Sized Models Beat API Overkill

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Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/remocal-minimum-viable-models-ai/ Source: Docker Title: Remocal and Minimum Viable Models: Why Right-Sized Models Beat API Overkill Feedly Summary: A practical approach to escaping the expensive, slow world of API-dependent AI The $20K Monthly Reality Check You built a simple sentiment analyzer for customer reviews. It works great. Except it costs $847/month in API calls…

Embrace The Red: OpenHands and the Lethal Trifecta: Leaking Your Agent’s Secrets

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/openhands-the-lethal-trifecta-strikes-again/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: OpenHands and the Lethal Trifecta: Leaking Your Agent’s Secrets Feedly Summary: Another day, another AI data exfiltration exploit. Today we talk about OpenHands, formerly referred to as OpenDevin initially. It’s created by All-Hands AI. OpenHands renders images in chat, which enables zero-click data exfiltration during prompt injection…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/when-a-jira-ticket-can-steal-your-secrets/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets Feedly Summary: When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets Zenity Labs describe a classic lethal trifecta attack, this time against Cursor, MCP, Jira and Zendesk. They also have a short video demonstrating the issue. Zendesk support emails are…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

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