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  • Hacker News: Luthor (YC F24) Is Hiring Ruby on Rails Engineers in San Francisco

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    Source URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/luthor/jobs/HKrdhp0-staff-senior-software-engineer-backend-fullstack Source: Hacker News Title: Luthor (YC F24) Is Hiring Ruby on Rails Engineers in San Francisco Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details Luthor, a company developing AI-driven marketing compliance solutions tailored for regulated industries such as fintech. By automating compliance-related approvals, Luthor aims to enhance efficiency…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral Small 3.1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/mistral-small-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral Small 3.1 Feedly Summary: Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral Small 3 came out in January and was a notable, genuinely excellent local model that used an Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Small 3.1 offers a significant improvement: it’s multi-modal (images) and has an increased 128,000 token context length,…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/17/stilachirat-analysis-from-system-reconnaissance-to-cryptocurrency-theft/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft Feedly Summary: Microsoft Incident Response uncovered a novel remote access trojan (RAT) named StilachiRAT, which demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data. This blog primarily focuses on analysis of the WWStartupCtrl64.dll…

  • ISC2 Think Tank: DeepSeek Deep Dive: Uncovering the Opportunities and Risks

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    Source URL: https://www.isc2.org/professional-development/webinars/thinktank?commid=638002 Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: DeepSeek Deep Dive: Uncovering the Opportunities and Risks Feedly Summary: In January 2025, the Chinese open-source artificial intelligence tool DeepSeek caused huge ripples in the AI market, granting user organizations affordable access to powerful LLMs. While this industry-disrupting innovation is indicative of the myriad opportunities that open-source…

  • Cloud Blog: Accelerate AI/ML workloads using Cloud Storage hierarchical namespace

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/cloud-storage-hierarchical-namespace-improves-aiml-checkpointing/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Accelerate AI/ML workloads using Cloud Storage hierarchical namespace Feedly Summary: As AI and machine learning (ML) workloads continue to grow, the infrastructure supporting them must evolve to meet their unique demands. Here on the Google Cloud Storage team, we’re committed to providing AI/ML practitioners with tools to optimize…

  • Schneier on Security: Improvements in Brute Force Attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/improvements-in-brute-force-attacks.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Improvements in Brute Force Attacks Feedly Summary: New paper: “GPU Assisted Brute Force Cryptanalysis of GPRS, GSM, RFID, and TETRA: Brute Force Cryptanalysis of KASUMI, SPECK, and TEA3.” Abstract: Key lengths in symmetric cryptography are determined with respect to the brute force attacks with current technology. While…

  • Hacker News: Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours

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    Source URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/akira-ransomware-cracked-with-rtx-4090-new-exploit-to-brute-force-encryption-attack Source: Hacker News Title: Akira ransomware can be cracked with sixteen RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The discovery of a GPU-based brute-force method to decrypt files affected by the Akira ransomware attack represents a significant breakthrough in cybersecurity. This method enables…

  • METR updates – METR: [ext, adv] 2025.03.05 Comment on AI Action Plan

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    Source URL: https://metr.org/METR_ai_action_plan_comment.pdf Source: METR updates – METR Title: [ext, adv] 2025.03.05 Comment on AI Action Plan Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses key considerations and priority actions for developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan by METR, a research nonprofit focused on AI systems and their risks to public…