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  • Wired: Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/hackers-exploit-a-blind-spot-by-hiding-malware-inside-dns-records/ Source: Wired Title: Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records Feedly Summary: Newly published research shows that the domain name system—a fundamental part of the web—can be exploited to hide malicious code and prompt injection attacks against chatbots. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the…

  • The Register: Quantum code breaking? You’d get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/quantum_cryptanalysis_criticism/ Source: The Register Title: Quantum code breaking? You’d get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog Feedly Summary: Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it’s ‘bollocks’ The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.……

  • The Register: Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/new_algorithms_boost_ai_perf/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x Feedly Summary: New spin on speculative decoding works with any model – now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann…

  • AInvest: AWS Completes CCAG 2024 Pooled Audit with European Financial Institutions with Collaborative Success

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    Source URL: https://www.ainvest.com/news/aws-completes-ccag-2024-pooled-audit-european-financial-institutions-collaborative-success-2507/ Source: AInvest Title: AWS Completes CCAG 2024 Pooled Audit with European Financial Institutions with Collaborative Success Feedly Summary: AWS Completes CCAG 2024 Pooled Audit with European Financial Institutions with Collaborative Success AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AWS has completed the Collaborative Cloud Audit Group (CCAG) 2024 pooled audit, confirming its ability…

  • Slashdot: Scale AI Lays Off 200 Employees: ‘We Ramped Up Our GenAI Capacity Too Quickly’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2058240/scale-ai-lays-off-200-employees-we-ramped-up-our-genai-capacity-too-quickly?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Scale AI Lays Off 200 Employees: ‘We Ramped Up Our GenAI Capacity Too Quickly’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Scale AI is undergoing significant restructuring, laying off 14% of its workforce while pivoting its generative AI business to improve efficiency and adapt to shifting market demands.…

  • Slashdot: Chinese Authorities Are Using a New Tool To Hack Seized Phones and Extract Data

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2042245/chinese-authorities-are-using-a-new-tool-to-hack-seized-phones-and-extract-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese Authorities Are Using a New Tool To Hack Seized Phones and Extract Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new type of malware named Massistant, developed by a Chinese tech company, which is used by authorities to extract sensitive data from seized…

  • Cloud Blog: Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/deepseek-r1-is-available-for-everyone-in-vertex-ai-model-garden/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Build with more flexibility: New open models arrive in the Vertex AI Model Garden Feedly Summary: In our ongoing effort to provide businesses with the flexibility and choice needed to build innovative AI applications, we are expanding the catalog of open models available as Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Voxtral

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/voxtral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Voxtral Feedly Summary: Voxtral Mistral released their first audio-input models yesterday: Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini. These state‑of‑the‑art speech understanding models are available in two sizes—a 24B variant for production-scale applications and a 3B variant for local and edge deployments. Both versions are released under the Apache…