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  • AWS News Blog: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-serverless-testing-with-localstack-integration-in-vs-code-ide/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE Feedly Summary: AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Building scalable, resilient enterprise networks with Network Connectivity Center

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/resiliency-with-network-connectivity-center/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Building scalable, resilient enterprise networks with Network Connectivity Center Feedly Summary: For large enterprises adopting a cloud platform, managing network connectivity across VPCs, on-premises data centers, and other clouds is critical. However, traditional models often lack scalability and increase management overhead. Google Cloud’s Network Connectivity Center is a…

  • The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • 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…

  • 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…