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  • The Register: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/fbi_cisa_unforgivable_buffer_overflow/ Source: The Register Title: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns Feedly Summary: FBI, CISA harrumph at Microsoft and VMware in call for coders to quit baking avoidable defects into stuff US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities “unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in…

  • Hacker News: Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

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    Source URL: https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/ Source: Hacker News Title: Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses an interesting method of encoding data using Unicode characters, specifically through the application of variation selectors. This approach demonstrates a theoretical ability to embed arbitrary data within standard text representations,…

  • Cloud Blog: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat Feedly Summary: Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this…

  • Cloud Blog: Balance of power: A full-stack approach to power and thermal fluctuations in ML infrastructure

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/mitigating-power-and-thermal-fluctuations-in-ml-infrastructure/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Balance of power: A full-stack approach to power and thermal fluctuations in ML infrastructure Feedly Summary: The recent explosion of machine learning (ML) applications has created unprecedented demand for power delivery in the data center infrastructure that underpins those applications. Unlike server clusters in the traditional data center,…

  • News: Key figures behind Phobos and 8Base ransomware arrested in international cybercrime crackdown

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    Source URL: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/key-figures-behind-phobos-and-8base-ransomware-arrested-in-international-cybercrime-crackdown Source: News Title: Key figures behind Phobos and 8Base ransomware arrested in international cybercrime crackdown Feedly Summary: This follows a series of high-impact arrests targeting Phobos ransomware:An administrator of Phobos was arrested in South Korea in June 2024 and extradited to the United States in November of the same year. He is…

  • The Register: DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/deepmind_distributed_model_training_research/ Source: The Register Title: DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models Feedly Summary: Alternate process could be a game changer if they can make it practicable Is distributed training the future of AI? As the shock of the DeepSeek release fades, its legacy may be an awareness that alternative approaches…

  • Hacker News: Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171 Source: Hacker News Title: Scaling Up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel language model architecture that enhances test-time computation through latent reasoning, presenting a new methodology that contrasts with traditional reasoning models. It emphasizes the…

  • The GenAI Bug Bounty Program | 0din.ai: The GenAI Bug Bounty Program

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    Source URL: https://0din.ai/blog/odin-secures-the-future-of-ai-shopping Source: The GenAI Bug Bounty Program | 0din.ai Title: The GenAI Bug Bounty Program Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text delves into a critical vulnerability uncovered in Amazon’s AI assistant, Rufus, focusing on how ASCII encoding allowed malicious requests to bypass existing guardrails. It emphasizes the need for…