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  • Wired: Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-hired-guns-who-make-sure-school-cyberattacks-stay-hidden/ Source: Wired Title: Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden Feedly Summary: An investigation into more than 300 cyberattacks against US K–12 schools over the past five years shows how schools can withhold crucial details from students and parents whose data was stolen. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Cloud Blog: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cve-2023-6080-third-party-installer-abuse/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse Feedly Summary: Written By: Jacob Paullus, Daniel McNamara, Jake Rawlins, Steven Karschnia Executive Summary Mandiant exploited flaws in the Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) repair action of Lakeside Software’s SysTrack installer to obtain arbitrary code execution. An attacker with low-privilege access…

  • 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 Tests Its AI’s Persuasiveness By Comparing It to Reddit Posts

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/02/0319217/openai-tests-its-ais-persuasiveness-by-comparing-it-to-reddit-posts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Tests Its AI’s Persuasiveness By Comparing It to Reddit Posts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI utilized the subreddit r/ChangeMyView to test and evaluate the persuasive capabilities of its AI reasoning models, particularly through a structured process that involves comparing AI-generated responses with human replies.…

  • Hacker News: Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the Big Deal?

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    Source URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/01/scalable-oltp-in-cloud-whats-big-deal.html Source: Hacker News Title: Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What’s the Big Deal? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a paper by Pat Helland, which explores the scalability limits of cloud OLTP systems and emphasizes the joint responsibility of the database and application in achieving effective…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Mark Zuckerberg

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/30/mark-zuckerberg/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Mark Zuckerberg Feedly Summary: Llama 4 is making great progress in training. Llama 4 mini is done with pre-training and our reasoning models and larger model are looking good too. Our goal with Llama 3 was to make open source competitive with closed models, and our…

  • The Register: DeepSeek’s not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/alibaba_qwen_ai/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek’s not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba? Feedly Summary: Qwen 2.5 Max tops both DS V3 and GPT-4o, cloud giant claims Analysis The speed and efficiency at which DeepSeek claims to be training large language models (LLMs) competitive with…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Whatsup Gold, Observium and Offis vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/whatsup-gold-observium-offis-vulnerabilities/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Whatsup Gold, Observium and Offis vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Research team recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in Observium, three vulnerabilities in Offis, and four vulnerabilities in Whatsup Gold.   These vulnerabilities exist in Observium, a network observation and monitoring system; Offis DCMTK, a collection of libraries and applications…