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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/microsoft_azure_migration_misfire/ Source: The Register Title: Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire Feedly Summary: Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent Some Microsoft Azure customers have had a worrying few days after a problematic account migration caused forecast costs for the cloud service to skyrocket, triggering budget…

The Register: WhatsApp warns of ‘attack against specific targeted users’

Sep 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/01/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: WhatsApp warns of ‘attack against specific targeted users’ Feedly Summary: PLUS: Microsoft ends no-MFA Azure access; WorkDay attack diverts payments; FreePBX warns of CVSS 10 flaw; and more Infosec In brief A flaw in Meta’s WhatsApp app “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted…

Slashdot: Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?

Aug 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/31/1820249/are-ai-web-crawlers-destroying-websites-in-their-hunt-for-training-data Source: Slashdot Title: Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the adverse effects of AI web crawlers on website performance, highlighting the increasing web traffic attributed to these bots. It addresses the challenges website owners face…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Benj Edwards

Aug 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/30/benj-edwards/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Benj Edwards Feedly Summary: LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call “vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating from no one at all. — Benj Edwards Tags: benj-edwards, ai-personality,…

Slashdot: WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/29/2020202/whatsapp-fixes-zero-click-bug-used-to-hack-apple-users-with-spyware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recently patched security bug in WhatsApp that was exploited to perform a sophisticated, zero-click attack on iOS and Mac devices. This highlights critical vulnerabilities in popular…

The Register: xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/xais_grok_has_no_place/ Source: The Register Title: xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Feedly Summary: Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole ‘MechaHitler’ thing are all the evidence needed, say authors Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI’s Grok in the…

The Cloudflare Blog: The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawlers-click-ai-bots-training/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals Feedly Summary: By mid-2025, training drives nearly 80% of AI crawling, while referrals to publishers (especially from Google) are falling and crawl-to-refer ratios show AI consumes far more than it sends back. AI Summary and Description:…

The Register: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/ Source: The Register Title: AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Feedly Summary: But the cure may ruin the web…. With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language…

The Register: AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials

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