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  • Microsoft Security Blog: Threat actors misuse Node.js to deliver malware and other malicious payloads

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/15/threat-actors-misuse-node-js-to-deliver-malware-and-other-malicious-payloads/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Threat actors misuse Node.js to deliver malware and other malicious payloads Feedly Summary: Since October 2024, Microsoft Defender Experts has observed and helped multiple customers address campaigns leveraging Node.js to deliver malware and other payloads that ultimately lead to information theft and data exfiltration. The post Threat…

  • Cloud Blog: AI and BI converge: A deep dive into Gemini in Looker

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/gemini-in-looker-deep-dive/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AI and BI converge: A deep dive into Gemini in Looker Feedly Summary: Driven by generative AI innovations, the Business Intelligence (BI) landscape is undergoing significant transformation, as businesses look to bring data insights to their organization in new and intuitive ways, lowering traditional barriers that have often…

  • Schneier on Security: Slopsquatting

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/slopsquatting.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Slopsquatting Feedly Summary: As AI coding assistants invent nonexistent software libraries to download and use, enterprising attackers create and upload libraries with those names—laced with malware, of course. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical security concern in the intersection of AI and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-4.1: Three new million token input models from OpenAI, including their cheapest model yet

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/14/gpt-4-1/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-4.1: Three new million token input models from OpenAI, including their cheapest model yet Feedly Summary: OpenAI introduced three new models this morning: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano. These are API-only models right now, not available through the ChatGPT interface (though you can try them out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/12/andrew-nesbitt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt Feedly Summary: Slopsquatting — when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson AI Summary…

  • The Register: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ Source: The Register Title: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Feedly Summary: Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ The rise of AI-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software – and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Slashdot: Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/2143211/fedora-targets-99-package-reproducibility-by-october?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Fedora’s upcoming version 43 is set to enhance package reproducibility to 99%, a vital improvement aimed at bolstering supply-chain security. The initiative utilizes innovative tools, public verification methods, and collaborative maintainer efforts to address…

  • Cloud Blog: 229 things we announced at Google Cloud Next 25 – a recap

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/google-cloud-next-2025-wrap-up/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 229 things we announced at Google Cloud Next 25 – a recap Feedly Summary: Google Cloud Next 25 took place this week and we’re all still buzzing! It was a jam-packed week in Las Vegas complete with interactive experiences, including more than 10 keynotes and spotlights, 700 sessions,…

  • Cloud Blog: Next 25 developer keynote: From prompt, to agent, to work, to fun

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/next25-developer-keynote-recap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Next 25 developer keynote: From prompt, to agent, to work, to fun Feedly Summary: Attending a tech conference like Google Cloud Next can feel like drinking from a firehose — all the news, all the sessions, and breakouts, all the learning and networking… But after a busy couple…