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  • Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2  Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s o3-mini: Faster, Cheaper AI That Fact-Checks Itself

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/1916254/openais-o3-mini-faster-cheaper-ai-that-fact-checks-itself?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s o3-mini: Faster, Cheaper AI That Fact-Checks Itself Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has introduced o3-mini, a new AI reasoning model aimed at improving efficiency and accuracy in STEM task processing. This model demonstrates significant advancements over its predecessor by reducing errors and speeding up…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model

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    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/openai-launches-o3-mini-its-latest-reasoning-model/ Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has launched o3-mini, a new AI reasoning model aimed at enhancing accessibility and performance in technical domains like STEM. This model distinguishes itself by fact-checking its outputs, presenting a more reliable…

  • Cloud Blog: ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/scatterbrain-unmasking-poisonplug-obfuscator/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: ScatterBrain: Unmasking the Shadow of PoisonPlug’s Obfuscator Feedly Summary: Written by: Nino Isakovic Introduction Since 2022, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking multiple cyber espionage operations conducted by China-nexus actors utilizing POISONPLUG.SHADOW. These operations employ a custom obfuscating compiler that we refer to as “ScatterBrain," facilitating…

  • Hacker News: Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML

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    Source URL: https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/01/21/llm-judge-decision-tree Source: Hacker News Title: Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an innovative approach to utilizing local LLMs (large language models) to assess product relevance for e-commerce search queries. By collecting data on LLM decisions and comparing them against human…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic’s new Citations API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/anthropics-new-citations-api/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic’s new Citations API Feedly Summary: Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what this is and why it’s interesting. Citations for Retrieval Augmented Generation…

  • Hacker News: Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly ‘sus’ sysctl in the XNU kernel

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    Source URL: https://jprx.io/cve-2024-54507/ Source: Hacker News Title: Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly ‘sus’ sysctl in the XNU kernel Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-54507) within the XNU kernel related to the sysctl interface, leading to an out-of-bounds read. This provides an important case study for software…