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  • Slashdot: Arch Linux Faces ‘Ongoing’ DDoS Attack

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/23/0513229/arch-linux-faces-ongoing-ddos-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Arch Linux Faces ‘Ongoing’ DDoS Attack Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a DDoS attack on the Arch Linux community, emphasizing the security challenges faced by volunteer-driven projects and their reliance on external hosting and infrastructure. It highlights the ongoing mitigation efforts by the…

  • The Register: Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/23/searchcapable_ai_agents_may_cheat/ Source: The Register Title: Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Feedly Summary: Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving…

  • Slashdot: Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google

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    Source URL: https://meta.slashdot.org/story/25/08/22/2043255/meta-signs-10-billion-cloud-deal-with-google Source: Slashdot Title: Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has entered into a significant six-year cloud computing partnership with Meta, valued at over $10 billion, to support Meta’s extensive AI infrastructure. This collaboration highlights the growing intersection of cloud computing and…

  • The Register: DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/deepseek_v31_chinese_chip_hints/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek’s new V3.1 release points to potent new Chinese chips coming soon Feedly Summary: Point release retuned with new FP8 datatype for better compatibility with homegrown silicon Chinese AI darling DeepSeek unveiled an update to its flagship large language model that the company claims is already optimized for…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/21/think-before-you-clickfix-analyzing-the-clickfix-social-engineering-technique/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique Feedly Summary: The ClickFix social engineering technique has been growing in popularity, with campaigns targeting thousands of enterprise and end-user devices daily. This technique exploits users’ tendency to resolve technical issues by tricking them into running malicious…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…