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  • Slashdot: The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/21/1416226/the-ai-powered-pdf-marks-the-end-of-an-era?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Adobe’s launch of Acrobat Studio, which integrates collaborative AI workspaces into the PDF format. This marks a significant evolution in document interaction, offering users personalized AI assistants to engage…

  • The Register: Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/apple_imageio_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS Feedly Summary: Another ‘extremely sophisticated’ exploit chewing at Cupertino’s walled garden Apple has shipped emergency updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, warning that the flaw has already been abused in targeted attacks.……

  • The Register: Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/freevpn_privacy_research/ Source: The Register Title: Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension Feedly Summary: Researcher claims extension didn’t start out by exfiltrating info… while dev says its actions are ‘compliant’ Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently…

  • Embrace The Red: Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/windsurf-data-exfiltration-vulnerabilities/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets Feedly Summary: This is the first post in a series exploring security vulnerabilities in Windsurf. If you are unfamiliar with Windsurf, it is a fork of VS Code and the coding agent is called Windsurf Cascade. The attack vectors…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Dissecting PipeMagic: Inside the architecture of a modular backdoor framework

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/18/dissecting-pipemagic-inside-the-architecture-of-a-modular-backdoor-framework/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Dissecting PipeMagic: Inside the architecture of a modular backdoor framework Feedly Summary: A comprehensive technical deep dive on PipeMagic, a highly modular backdoor used by Storm-2460 masquerading as a legitimate open-source ChatGPT Desktop Application. Beneath its disguise, PipeMagic is a sophisticated malware framework designed for flexibility and…

  • Unit 42: Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/logit-gap-steering-impact/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety Feedly Summary: New research from Unit 42 on logit-gap steering reveals how internal alignment measures can be bypassed, making external AI security vital. The post Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety appeared…

  • The Register: Perplexity’s Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/perplexity_comet_browser_prompt_injection/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity’s Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions Feedly Summary: Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched To the surprise of no one in the security industry, processing untrusted, unvalidated input is a bad idea.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recently…

  • Wired: Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/sleeptime-compute-chatbots-memory/ Source: Wired Title: Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents? Feedly Summary: For AI models, knowing what to remember might be as important as knowing what to forget. Welcome to the era of “sleeptime compute.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces the concept of “sleeptime compute,” which emphasizes…

  • Cloud Blog: IP address management made easy: Announcing auto IPAM for GKE clusters

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-auto-ipam-simplifies-ip-address-management/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: IP address management made easy: Announcing auto IPAM for GKE clusters Feedly Summary: Managing IP addresses in Kubernetes can be a complex and daunting task — but a crucial one. In Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), it’s important that you manage IP addresses effectively, given the resource-constrained IPv4 address…