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  • Slashdot: Ransomware Crew Abuses AWS Native Encryption, Sets Data-Destruct Timer for 7 Days

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/14/0141238/ransomware-crew-abuses-aws-native-encryption-sets-data-destruct-timer-for-7-days?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Ransomware Crew Abuses AWS Native Encryption, Sets Data-Destruct Timer for 7 Days Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of the ransomware group Codefinger highlights a novel and dangerous method of exploiting AWS S3 buckets by using compromised AWS keys and AWS’s SSE-C (Server-Side Encryption with…

  • Hacker News: AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users

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    Source URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-agents-may-soon-surpass-people-as-primary-application-users/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI agents may soon surpass people as primary application users Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines predictions by Accenture regarding the rise of AI agents as primary users of enterprise systems and discusses the implications of this shift, including the need for…

  • Hacker News: voyage-code-3

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    Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/voyage-code-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: voyage-code-3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents voyage-code-3, a new embedding model optimized for code retrieval that significantly outperforms existing models in both performance and cost-efficiency. The introduction of Matryoshka learning and advanced quantization techniques allows for reduced storage requirements without compromising…

  • The Register: Microsoft re-orgs to create ‘CoreAI – Platform and Tools’ software engineering team

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/microsoft_corea_team_reorg/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft re-orgs to create ‘CoreAI – Platform and Tools’ software engineering team Feedly Summary: Nad lad reckons 30 years of change is happening in three years as apps and services go ‘agentic’ Microsoft has revealed it’s created an engineering team that CEO Satya Nadella feels is needed to…

  • Hacker News: Cheating Is All You Need

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    Source URL: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need Source: Hacker News Title: Cheating Is All You Need Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides an enthusiastic commentary on the transformative impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering, likening their significance to that of the World Wide Web or cloud computing. The author discusses…

  • Hacker News: How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations

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    Source URL: https://olup-blog.pages.dev/stories/image-detection-cars Source: Hacker News Title: How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the innovative use of GPT-4o and computer vision technologies in developing a solution for image detection in a museum project. It highlights the shift in…

  • The Register: Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as attackers abuse Aviatrix Controller bug

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/severe_aviatrix_controller_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as attackers abuse Aviatrix Controller bug Feedly Summary: This is what happens when you publish PoCs immediately “Several cloud deployments" are already compromised following the disclosure of the maximum-severity vulnerability in Aviatrix Controller, researchers say.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a…

  • The Register: CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don’t expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/coreweave_datacenter_uk/ Source: The Register Title: CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don’t expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet Feedly Summary: Rent-a-GPU outfit’s latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s As the UK government reaffirms its aspirations to become an AI superpower, CoreWeave says two new GPU bit barns…

  • The Register: Microsoft sues ‘foreign-based’ criminals, seizes sites used to abuse AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/microsoft_sues_foreignbased_crims_seizes/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft sues ‘foreign-based’ criminals, seizes sites used to abuse AI Feedly Summary: Crooks stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz Microsoft has sued a group of unnamed cybercriminals who developed tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI tools. The tools were used to create harmful…

  • The Register: Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/azure_m365_outage/ Source: The Register Title: Azure and M365 MFA outage locks out users across regions Feedly Summary: It’s sorted out (mostly), but European users had a manic Monday Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Azure and Microsoft 365 (M365) was offline for four hours during Monday’s busy start for European subscribers.… AI Summary and…