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  • The Register: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/who_is_ddosing_you_competitors/ Source: The Register Title: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users Feedly Summary: Plus: ‘Largest-ever’ duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations’ networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a…

  • The Register: Tool touted as ‘first AI software engineer’ is bad at its job, testers claim

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/ai_developer_devin_poor_reviews/ Source: The Register Title: Tool touted as ‘first AI software engineer’ is bad at its job, testers claim Feedly Summary: Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks A service described as “the first AI software engineer" appears to be rather bad at its job, based on a recent evaluation.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • The Register: LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/linkedin_sued_for_allegedly_training/ Source: The Register Title: LinkedIn accused of training AI on private messages Feedly Summary: Microsoft’s IG-for-suits insists lawsuit’s claims are without merit Microsoft’s LinkedIn was this week accused of providing its third-party partners with access to Premium customers’ private InMail messages for AI model training.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/trading-inference-time-compute/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Feedly Summary: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Brand new research paper from OpenAI, exploring how inference-scaling “reasoning" models such as o1 might impact the search for improved security with respect to things like prompt injection. We conduct experiments on the…

  • Slashdot: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Phones Once Again Lean Heavily on AI

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    Source URL: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/2135233/samsungs-galaxy-s25-phones-once-again-lean-heavily-on-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Phones Once Again Lean Heavily on AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Samsung has introduced the Galaxy S25 series, enhancing the smartphones with advanced AI capabilities and large language models (LLMs) such as Google’s Gemini and its own Bixby. New features, including cross-app…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Chief Says AI Could Surpass ‘Almost All Humans At Almost Everything’ Shortly After 2027

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/2122252/anthropic-chief-says-ai-could-surpass-almost-all-humans-at-almost-everything-shortly-after-2027?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Chief Says AI Could Surpass ‘Almost All Humans At Almost Everything’ Shortly After 2027 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the prediction by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that AI models could surpass human capabilities in nearly all tasks within the next few years.…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q4/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4 Feedly Summary: 2024 ended with a bang. Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 5.6 Tbps. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report for Q4 of 2024 provides an in-depth…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/01/16/new-star-blizzard-spear-phishing-campaign-targets-whatsapp-accounts/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts Feedly Summary: In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed opportunity to join a WhatsApp group. This is the first…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing BigQuery metastore, a unified metadata service with Apache Iceberg support

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-bigquery-metastore-fully-managed-metadata-service/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing BigQuery metastore, a unified metadata service with Apache Iceberg support Feedly Summary: Does your organization use multiple data processing engines like BigQuery, Apache Spark, Apache Flink and Apache Hive? Wouldn’t it be great if you could provide a single source of truth for all of your analytics…