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  • The Register: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/ Source: The Register Title: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services Feedly Summary: Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US The UK’s Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.……

  • The Register: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/cobalt_strikes_ai_successor_downloaded/ Source: The Register Title: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months Feedly Summary: Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack – sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as “Cobalt Strike’s…

  • Cloud Blog: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/prove-your-expertise-with-our-new-secops-engineer-certification/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification Feedly Summary: Security leaders are clear about their priorities: After AI, cloud security is the top training topic for decision-makers. As threats against cloud workloads become more sophisticated, organizations are looking for highly-skilled professionals to help defend against…

  • Cisco Security Blog: SnortML: Cisco’s ML-Based Detection Engine Gets Powerful Upgrade

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    Source URL: https://blogs.cisco.com/security/snortml-cisco-ml-based-detection-engine-gets-powerful-upgrade Source: Cisco Security Blog Title: SnortML: Cisco’s ML-Based Detection Engine Gets Powerful Upgrade Feedly Summary: SnortML, Cisco’s innovative ML engine for Snort IPS, proactively detects evolving exploits like SQL Injection, Command Injection & XSS on-device for privacy. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the introduction of SnortML, a machine…

  • The Register: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/eggstreme_malware_china_philippines/ Source: The Register Title: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say Feedly Summary: Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem ‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…

  • Wired: Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/microsofts-ai-chief-says-machine-consciousness-is-an-illusion/ Source: Wired Title: Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’ Feedly Summary: Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mustafa Suleyman’s assertion regarding the design of AI systems highlights significant…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude API: Web fetch tool

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/10/claude-web-fetch-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude API: Web fetch tool Feedly Summary: Claude API: Web fetch tool New in the Claude API: if you pass the web-fetch-2025-09-10 beta header you can add {“type": "web_fetch_20250910", "name": "web_fetch", "max_uses": 5} to your "tools" list and Claude will gain the ability to fetch content from…