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  • Slashdot: WSJ Says China ‘Acknowledged Its Role in U.S. Infrastructure Hacks’

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/13/006221/wsj-says-china-acknowledged-its-role-in-us-infrastructure-hacks Source: Slashdot Title: WSJ Says China ‘Acknowledged Its Role in U.S. Infrastructure Hacks’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses alarming cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure allegedly orchestrated by China, revealing a potential military conflict’s implications over Taiwan. It highlights significant national security concerns and the U.S. government’s response,…

  • Slashdot: Chrome To Patch Decades-Old ‘Browser History Sniffing’ Flaw That Let Sites Peek At Your History

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/2054251/chrome-to-patch-decades-old-browser-history-sniffing-flaw-that-let-sites-peek-at-your-history?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chrome To Patch Decades-Old ‘Browser History Sniffing’ Flaw That Let Sites Peek At Your History Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses a significant update in the Chrome browser that aims to mitigate a long-standing privacy attack known as “browser history sniffing.” This side-channel attack…

  • Slashdot: AI Industry Tells US Congress: ‘We Need Energy’

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/0633243/ai-industry-tells-us-congress-we-need-energy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Industry Tells US Congress: ‘We Need Energy’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the urgent energy needs for AI development in the United States, emphasizing bipartisan support for increased energy production to sustain data centers as AI technology evolves. Industry leaders stress the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/12/andrew-nesbitt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt Feedly Summary: Slopsquatting — when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson AI Summary…

  • Slashdot: Facebook Whistleblower Alleges Meta’s AI Model Llama Was Used to Help DeepSeek

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/067219/facebook-whistleblower-alleges-metas-ai-model-llama-was-used-to-help-deepseek?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Facebook Whistleblower Alleges Meta’s AI Model Llama Was Used to Help DeepSeek Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses allegations made by former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams regarding Meta’s AI model Llama and its potential use in aiding Chinese technology efforts. She testified that Meta…

  • Slashdot: Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/2143211/fedora-targets-99-package-reproducibility-by-october?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Fedora’s upcoming version 43 is set to enhance package reproducibility to 99%, a vital improvement aimed at bolstering supply-chain security. The initiative utilizes innovative tools, public verification methods, and collaborative maintainer efforts to address…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Vulnerability Finding

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/ai-vulnerability-finding.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Vulnerability Finding Feedly Summary: Microsoft is reporting that its AI systems are able to find new vulnerabilities in source code: Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including integer and buffer overflows in filesystem parsers, command flaws, and a side-channel in cryptographic comparison. Additionally, 9 buffer overflows…

  • Wired: Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/sex-fantasy-chatbots-are-leaking-explicit-messages-every-minute/ Source: Wired Title: Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages Feedly Summary: Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of child sexual abuse. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical security issue related…