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  • Slashdot: ASUS Router Backdoors Affect 9,000 Devices, Persists After Firmware Updates

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/2052229/asus-router-backdoors-affect-9000-devices-persists-after-firmware-updates?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ASUS Router Backdoors Affect 9,000 Devices, Persists After Firmware Updates Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security issue involving the compromise of thousands of ASUS routers with malware-free backdoors, which could enable the establishment of a botnet. The report highlights the sophisticated…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Energy Department Unveils New Supercomputer That Merges With A.I.

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/technology/energy-department-supercomputer-ai.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Energy Department Unveils New Supercomputer That Merges With A.I. Feedly Summary: The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a trend where government laboratories…

  • The Register: 8,000+ Asus routers popped in ‘advanced’ mystery botnet plot

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/29/8000_asus_routers_popped_in/ Source: The Register Title: 8,000+ Asus routers popped in ‘advanced’ mystery botnet plot Feedly Summary: No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for…

  • Slashdot: AI May Already Be Shrinking Entry-Level Jobs In Tech, New Research Suggests

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/28/2239206/ai-may-already-be-shrinking-entry-level-jobs-in-tech-new-research-suggests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI May Already Be Shrinking Entry-Level Jobs In Tech, New Research Suggests Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a significant shift in hiring trends within the tech industry, driven by the rise of AI. There’s a notable reduction in hiring recent college graduates and…

  • Anchore: False Positives and False Negatives in Vulnerability Scanning: Lessons from the Trenches

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    Source URL: https://anchore.com/blog/false-positives-and-false-negatives-in-vulnerability-scanning/ Source: Anchore Title: False Positives and False Negatives in Vulnerability Scanning: Lessons from the Trenches Feedly Summary: When Good Scanners Flag Bad Results Imagine this: Friday afternoon, your deployment pipeline runs smoothly, tests pass, and you’re ready to push that new release to production. Then suddenly: BEEP BEEP BEEP – your vulnerability…

  • The Register: OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/29/openai_model_modifies_shutdown_script/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort Feedly Summary: Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims A research organization claims that OpenAI machine learning model o3 might prevent itself from being shut down in some circumstances while completing an…

  • Hamel’s Blog: LLM Eval FAQ

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    Source URL: https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals-faq/ Source: Hamel’s Blog Title: LLM Eval FAQ Feedly Summary: Our Course On AI Evals I’m teaching a course on AI Evals with Shreya Shankar. Here are some of the most common questions we’ve been asked. We’ll be updating this list frequently. Q: Is RAG dead? Question: Should I avoid using RAG for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-mistral 0.14

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-mistral-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-mistral 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-mistral 0.14 I added tool-support to my plugin for accessing the Mistral API from LLM today, plus support for Mistral’s new Codestral Embed embedding model. An interesting challenge here is that I’m not using an official client library for llm-mistral – I rolled…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Nvidia’s Revenue Jumps to $44.1 Billion Despite A.I. Chip Controls

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/technology/nvidia-earnings-ai-chips.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Nvidia’s Revenue Jumps to $44.1 Billion Despite A.I. Chip Controls Feedly Summary: The company continued to grow fast in its most recent quarter despite new rules restricting the sale of A.I chips to China. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the…