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  • Slashdot: Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/0252201/police-department-apologizes-for-sharing-ai-doctored-evidence-photo-on-social-media?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Police Department Apologizes for Sharing AI-Doctored Evidence Photo on Social Media Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A police department in Maine admitted to inadvertently sharing an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media, resulting in public scrutiny over the integrity of evidence presentation. This incident…

  • The Register: Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/06/ingram_micro_confirms_ransomware_behind/ Source: The Register Title: Ingram Micro confirms ransomware behind multi-day outage Feedly Summary: SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world’s largest tech distributors Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest distributors, has confirmed it is trying to restore systems following a ransomware attack.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Feedly Summary: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Here’s yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1935203/microsoft-open-sources-copilot-chat-for-vs-code-on-github Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, allowing developers to access its internal workings, including data handling and telemetry. This transparency is significant for security, as it…

  • Slashdot: XBOW’s AI-Powered Pentester Grabs Top Rank on HackerOne, Raises $75M to Grow Platform

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1847237/xbows-ai-powered-pentester-grabs-top-rank-on-hackerone-raises-75m-to-grow-platform Source: Slashdot Title: XBOW’s AI-Powered Pentester Grabs Top Rank on HackerOne, Raises $75M to Grow Platform Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the emergence of “Xbow,” an autonomous AI-powered penetration tester that has excelled in finding and reporting vulnerabilities in enterprise software. This innovation highlights the trend…

  • Slashdot: Two Sudo Vulnerabilities Discovered and Patched

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/0323220/two-sudo-vulnerabilities-discovered-and-patched?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Two Sudo Vulnerabilities Discovered and Patched Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in Sudo that allow local attackers to escalate their privileges. Researchers have identified two critical flaws, CVE-2025-32462 and CVE-2025-32463, which could potentially expose systems to security risks and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Identify, solve, verify

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/identify-solve-verify/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Identify, solve, verify Feedly Summary: The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career – even as their coding capabilities continue to improve. Using LLMs as part of my process helps me understand how much of my job isn’t just…

  • Slashdot: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1521245/simple-text-additions-can-fool-advanced-ai-reasoning-models-researchers-find Source: Slashdot Title: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research highlights a significant vulnerability in state-of-the-art reasoning AI models through the “CatAttack” technique, which attaches irrelevant phrases to math problems, leading to higher error rates and inefficient responses.…

  • The Register: Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here’s what we know so far

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/project_rainier_deep_dive/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here’s what we know so far Feedly Summary: It’s almost like AWS is building its own Stargate deep dive Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in the process of building out a massive supercomputing cluster containing “hundreds…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…