Tag: authors
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The Register: Cybersecurity not the hiring-’em-like-hotcakes role it once was
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/cybersecurity_jobs_market/ Source: The Register Title: Cybersecurity not the hiring-’em-like-hotcakes role it once was Feedly Summary: Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create ‘realistic’ job outline, say experts Analysis It’s a familiar refrain in the security industry that there is a massive skills gap in the…
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Unit 42: Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization
Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=138493 Source: Unit 42 Title: Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization Feedly Summary: Malware authors use AES encryption and code virtualization to evade sandbox static analysis. We explore how this facilitates spread of Agent Tesla, XWorm and more. The post Uncovering .NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization appeared first on…
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Hacker News: 3x Improvement with Infinite Retrieval: Attention Enhanced LLMs in Long-Context
Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12962 Source: Hacker News Title: 3x Improvement with Infinite Retrieval: Attention Enhanced LLMs in Long-Context Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel approach called InfiniRetri, which enhances long-context processing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by utilizing their own attention mechanisms for improved retrieval accuracy. This…
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Hacker News: The AI Code Review Disconnect: Why Your Tools Aren’t Solving Your Real Problem
Source URL: https://avikalpg.github.io/blog/articles/20250301_ai_code_reviews_vs_code_review_interfaces.html Source: Hacker News Title: The AI Code Review Disconnect: Why Your Tools Aren’t Solving Your Real Problem Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the growing use of AI code review tools among engineering teams and highlights the disconnect between what these tools are designed to do…
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Hacker News: Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit
Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207942 Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of Globstar, a new open-source static analysis toolkit from DeepSource, which enables developers to create custom code quality and security checks using YAML or Go. The…
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Hacker News: Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
Source URL: https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo Source: Hacker News Title: Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements in conversational AI, particularly the development of a Conversational Speech Model (CSM) that aims to enhance the emotional and contextual nuances of machine-generated speech, making it more human-like…
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Hacker News: A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OAuth 2.0
Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01229 Source: Hacker News Title: A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OAuth 2.0 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper presents a comprehensive formal security analysis of the OAuth 2.0 protocol, a widely used authorization standard essential for secure single sign-on (SSO) applications. It highlights vulnerabilities discovered during analysis…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/emergent-misalignment/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs Feedly Summary: In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts…
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Google Online Security Blog: Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards
Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/02/securing-tomorrows-software-need-for.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the critical issue of memory safety vulnerabilities and advocates for a shift towards secure-by-design practices to enhance overall security across the software industry. It emphasizes the…
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Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]
Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…