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  • Slashdot: Self-Replicating Worm Affected Several Hundred NPM Packages, Including CrowdStrike’s

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/0542237/self-replicating-worm-affected-several-hundred-npm-packages-including-crowdstrikes Source: Slashdot Title: Self-Replicating Worm Affected Several Hundred NPM Packages, Including CrowdStrike’s Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Shai-Hulud malware campaign has affected numerous npm packages, including those maintained by CrowdStrike, via the injection of malicious scripts designed to steal developer credentials and exfiltrate sensitive information. The campaign highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: httpjail

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/httpjail/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: httpjail Feedly Summary: httpjail Here’s a promising new (experimental) project in the sandboxing space from Ammar Bandukwala at Coder. httpjail provides a Rust CLI tool for running an individual process against a custom configured HTTP proxy. The initial goal is to help run coding agents like Claude…

  • The Register: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/meta_wholesale_leccy/ Source: The Register Title: Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity Feedly Summary: With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/notion-lethal-trifecta/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration Feedly Summary: The Hidden Risk in Notion 3.0 AI Agents: Web Search Tool Abuse for Data Exfiltration Abi Raghuram reports that Notion 3.0, released yesterday, introduces new prompt injection data exfiltration vulnerabilities…

  • The Register: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/how_to_trick_chatgpt_agents/ Source: The Register Title: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt Feedly Summary: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.… AI Summary…

  • Slashdot: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/19/1750226/ai-tool-detects-llm-generated-text-in-research-papers-and-peer-reviews Source: Slashdot Title: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Recent analysis conducted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) reveals a significant increase in AI-generated text within academic submissions, particularly highlighting concerns about disclosure practices among authors. This…

  • The Register: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/cisa_ivanti_bugs_exploited/ Source: The Register Title: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says Feedly Summary: Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US…

  • Cloud Blog: 5 best practices for Managed Lustre on Google Kubernetes Engine

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-managed-lustre-csi-driver-for-aiml-and-hpc-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 5 best practices for Managed Lustre on Google Kubernetes Engine Feedly Summary: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a powerful platform for orchestrating scalable AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. But as clusters grow and jobs become more data-intensive, storage I/O can become a bottleneck. Your powerful GPUs and…

  • Cloud Blog: Strengthen GCE and GKE security with new dashboards powered by Security Command Center

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/new-gce-and-gke-dashboards-strengthen-security-posture/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Strengthen GCE and GKE security with new dashboards powered by Security Command Center Feedly Summary: As cloud infrastructure evolves, so should how you safeguard that technology. As part of our efforts to help you maintain a strong security posture, we’ve introduced powerful capabilities that can address some of…