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  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Vulnerability to the KEV Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/08/cisa-adds-one-vulnerability-kev-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Vulnerability to the KEV Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-0282 Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the…

  • Wired: Before Las Vegas, Intel Analysts Warned That Bomb Makers Were Turning to AI

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/las-vegas-bombing-cybertruck-trump-intel-dhs-ai/ Source: Wired Title: Before Las Vegas, Intel Analysts Warned That Bomb Makers Were Turning to AI Feedly Summary: Authorities say that before a Green Beret blew up a Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel, he consulted ChatGPT—exactly the scenario police have been warned of for the past year. AI Summary…

  • Hacker News: SOTA on swebench-verified: relearning the bitter lesson

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    Source URL: https://aide.dev/blog/sota-bitter-lesson Source: Hacker News Title: SOTA on swebench-verified: relearning the bitter lesson Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements in AI, particularly around leveraging large language models (LLMs) for software engineering challenges through novel approaches such as test-time inference scaling. It emphasizes the key insight that scaling…

  • The Register: Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bugs under active exploit

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/mitel_0_day_oracle_rce_under_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bugs under active exploit Feedly Summary: 3 CVEs added to CISA’s catalog Cybercriminals are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Mitel MiCollab, including a zero-day flaw, alongside a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server that has been exploited for at least…

  • Hacker News: White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices

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    Source URL: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/01/white-house-unveils-cyber-trust-mark-program-consumer-devices/401991/ Source: Hacker News Title: White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The White House has launched a Cyber Trust Mark labeling scheme for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, aimed at assuring consumers that certified products meet government-vetted cybersecurity standards. This…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/phi-4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/8/phi-4/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/phi-4 Feedly Summary: microsoft/phi-4 Here’s the official release of Microsoft’s Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably…

  • Wired: AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-social-media-users-are-not-always-a-totally-dumb-idea/ Source: Wired Title: AI Social Media Users Are Not Always a Totally Dumb Idea Feedly Summary: Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s plan to introduce a significant number of artificial…

  • OpenAI : Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/deliberative-alignment Source: OpenAI Title: Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models Feedly Summary: Deliberative alignment: reasoning enables safer language models Introducing our new alignment strategy for o1 models, which are directly taught safety specifications and how to reason over them. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new alignment strategy…

  • The Register: DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/dna_sequencer_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research Feedly Summary: Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction Argentine cybersecurity shop Eclypsium claims security issues affecting leading DNA sequencing devices could lead to disruptions in crucial clinical research.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…