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  • Hacker News: Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative

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    Source URL: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes MyCoder, a command-line AI agent specialized in coding tasks. It utilizes a modular architecture, enabling it to perform complex operations such as code modifications, dependency updates, and documentation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/emergent-misalignment/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs Feedly Summary: In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts…

  • The Register: MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/10_bug_mitre_caldera/ Source: The Register Title: MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity Feedly Summary: Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or? The smart cookie who discovered a perfect 10-out-of-10-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug in MITRE’s Caldera security training platform has urged users to…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/02/securing-tomorrows-software-need-for.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Securing tomorrow’s software: the need for memory safety standards Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the critical issue of memory safety vulnerabilities and advocates for a shift towards secure-by-design practices to enhance overall security across the software industry. It emphasizes the…

  • Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

  • Hacker News: Hard problems that reduce to document ranking

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    Source URL: https://noperator.dev/posts/document-ranking-for-complex-problems/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hard problems that reduce to document ranking Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the innovative application of large language models (LLMs) in document ranking, particularly for locating vulnerabilities in code patches. It presents a novel approach to addressing complex security problems by…

  • Schneier on Security: North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5B in Cryptocurrency

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/north-korean-hackers-steal-1-5b-in-cryptocurrency.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5B in Cryptocurrency Feedly Summary: It looks like a very sophisticated attack against the Dubai-based exchange Bybit: Bybit officials disclosed the theft of more than 400,000 ethereum and staked ethereum coins just hours after it occurred. The notification said the digital loot had…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked Windsurf prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/leaked-windsurf-prompt/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked Windsurf prompt Feedly Summary: Leaked Windsurf prompt The Windurf Editor is Codeium’s highly regarded entrant into the fork-of-VS-code AI-enhanced IDE model first pioneered by Cursor (and by VS Code itself). I heard online that it had a quirky system prompt, and was able to replicate that…

  • Cloud Blog: Enhancing AlloyDB vector search with inline filtering and enterprise observability

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/enhancing-alloydb-vector-search-with-inline-filtering-and-enterprise-observability/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Enhancing AlloyDB vector search with inline filtering and enterprise observability Feedly Summary: Many specialized vector databases today require you to create complex pipelines and applications in order to get the data you need. AlloyDB for PostgreSQL offers Google Research’s, state-of-the-art vector search index, ScaNN, enabling you to optimize…