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Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/oregon-man-charged-in-rapper-bot-ddos-service/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service Feedly Summary: A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked…

The Register: In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/otter_ml_privacy_lawsuit/ Source: The Register Title: In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices Feedly Summary: Vidchat hosts probably know Otter.ai records everything and feeds it into AI. Their guests may not Voice transcription service Otter.ai has found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit that claims it trains its…

Embrace The Red: Amp Code: Invisible Prompt Injection Fixed by Sourcegraph

Aug 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amp-code-fixed-invisible-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Amp Code: Invisible Prompt Injection Fixed by Sourcegraph Feedly Summary: In this post we will look at Amp, a coding agent from Sourcegraph. The other day we discussed how invisible instructions impact Google Jules. Turns out that many client applications are vulnerable to these kinds of attacks…

Slashdot: Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots

Aug 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/0434221/illinois-bans-ai-therapy-joins-two-other-states-in-regulating-chatbots?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses recent legislative actions in Illinois and other states to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy. This highlights growing concerns about the safety and…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/gpt-5-has-a-hidden-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt Feedly Summary: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt It looks like GPT-5 when accessed via the OpenAI API may have its own hidden system prompt, independent from the system prompt you can specify in an API call. At the very least…

Cloud Blog: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-modernization/platform-engineering-control-mechanisms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms Feedly Summary: The promise of platform engineering is to accelerate software delivery by empowering developers with self-service capabilities. However, this must be balanced with security, compliance, and operational stability, and for this, you need robust controls. But all too…

Embrace The Red: Google Jules is Vulnerable To Invisible Prompt Injection

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/google-jules-invisible-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Google Jules is Vulnerable To Invisible Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The latest Gemini models quite reliably interpret hidden Unicode Tag characters as instructions. This vulnerability, first reported to Google over a year ago, has not been mitigated at the model or API level, hence now affects all…

The Register: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/llm_chatbots_trivial_to_weaponise/ Source: The Register Title: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Feedly Summary: System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into ‘investigator’ and ‘detective’ roles that bypass privacy guardrails A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : La IA aumenta los riesgos de publicar las fotos de tus hijos en internet

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