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The Register: Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE

Aug 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/amazon_quietly_fixed_q_developer_flaws/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE Feedly Summary: Move along, nothing to see here Amazon has quietly fixed a couple of security issues in its coding agent: Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension. Attackers could use these vulns to…

Embrace The Red: Amazon Q Developer for VS Code Vulnerable to Invisible Prompt Injection

Aug 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amazon-q-developer-interprets-hidden-instructions/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Amazon Q Developer for VS Code Vulnerable to Invisible Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q) is a very popular coding agent, with over 1 million downloads. In previous posts we showed how prompt injection vulnerabilities in Amazon Q could lead…

The Register: Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records

Aug 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/intel_website_flaws/ Source: The Register Title: Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records Feedly Summary: Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with…

The Register: KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

Aug 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/kpmg_giant_prompt_tax_agent/ Source: The Register Title: KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot Feedly Summary: Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.……

Embrace The Red: Amazon Q Developer: Remote Code Execution with Prompt Injection

Aug 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amazon-q-developer-remote-code-execution/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Amazon Q Developer: Remote Code Execution with Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q) is a popular coding agent, with over 1 million downloads. The extension is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection, and in this post we discuss a vulnerability that…

AWS News Blog: Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances

Aug 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/best-performance-and-fastest-memory-with-the-new-amazon-ec2-r8i-and-r8i-flex-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances Feedly Summary: R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations. AI Summary…

The Register: Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that’ll make procurement suck less

Aug 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/us_government_ai_procurement/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that’ll make procurement suck less Feedly Summary: Plan includes chatbots ‘with full user context and data access’ – what could go wrong? US government buyers have been busy getting AI into the hands of federal agencies, and now they’re taking…

The Register: More customers asking for Google’s Data Boundary, says Cloud Experience boss

Aug 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/critical_thinking_and_sovereign_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: More customers asking for Google’s Data Boundary, says Cloud Experience boss Feedly Summary: Developer demand for sovereign cloud from tech giant is on the rise, says exec Interview Google’s President of Customer Experience, Hayete Gallot, offered some words of comfort to developers who are looking nervously at the…

Slashdot: US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop ‘Backdoor’ Mandate for Apple

Aug 19, 2025

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Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/0345252/us-spy-chief-gabbard-says-uk-agreed-to-drop-backdoor-mandate-for-apple?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Spy Chief Gabbard Says UK Agreed To Drop ‘Backdoor’ Mandate for Apple Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent development in the UK’s approach to encryption and security, specifically regarding Apple and its iCloud data. The intervention by the Trump administration highlights…

Slashdot: AI ‘Business Agents’ Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/181255/ai-business-agents-will-kill-saas-by-2030-says-microsoft?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI ‘Business Agents’ Will Kill SaaS by 2030, Says Microsoft Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text predicts the future of business applications as they transition to AI-driven systems, particularly emphasizing the role of generative AI interfaces and agent-based systems. Microsoft’s Charles Lamanna asserts that such…

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