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  • Hacker News: The Einstein AI Model

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    Source URL: https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html#follow-up Source: Hacker News Title: The Einstein AI Model Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text critiques the notion that AI will rapidly advance scientific discovery through a “compressed 21st century.” It argues that AI currently lacks the capacity to ask novel questions and challenge existing knowledge, a skill…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-quantum-safe-digital-signatures-in-cloud-kms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing quantum-safe digital signatures in Cloud KMS Feedly Summary: The continued advancement of experimental quantum computing has raised concerns about the security of many of the world’s widely-used public-key cryptography systems. Crucially, there exists the potential for sufficiently large, cryptographically-relevant quantum computers to break these algorithms. This potential…

  • Hacker News: U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report

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    Source URL: https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/u-s-government-disclosed-39-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-2023-per-first-ever-report/ Source: Hacker News Title: U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the U.S. government’s disclosure of zero-day vulnerabilities through its Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP) in 2023. It highlights a significant shift in the level of transparency around…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/29/prompt-injection-attacks-on-ai-systems/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems Feedly Summary: How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems The “Agentic AI Security Team" at Google DeepMind share some details on how they are researching indirect prompt injection attacks. They…

  • Hacker News: Curl Project and Go Security Teams Reject CVSS as Broken

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    Source URL: https://socket.dev/blog/curl-project-and-go-security-teams-reject-cvss-as-broken Source: Hacker News Title: Curl Project and Go Security Teams Reject CVSS as Broken Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The debate surrounding the efficacy of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is intensifying, particularly as key projects like cURL and Go distance themselves from it, advocating for context-driven…

  • Hacker News: Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications

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    Source URL: https://restate.dev/blog/every-system-is-a-log-avoiding-coordination-in-distributed-applications/ Source: Hacker News Title: Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the complexities of building resilient distributed applications, particularly focusing on the orchestration of logs in the context of ensuring correctness while avoiding distributed coordination. The article…

  • The Register: Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/biden_cybersecurity_eo/ Source: The Register Title: Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it Feedly Summary: Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there’s something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly…

  • The Register: UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/uk_ransomware_payout_ban/ Source: The Register Title: UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector Feedly Summary: Stronger proposals may also see private sector applying for a payment ‘license’ A total ban on ransomware payments across the public sector might actually happen after the UK government opened a consultation on how to combat the trend…

  • The Register: AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/02/aws_iceberg/ Source: The Register Title: AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform Feedly Summary: But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines Analysis Last week, AWS jumped into Iceberg with both feet. S3 Buckets, the near-ubiquitous storage containers for developers, got another layer. The dominant cloud…

  • Hacker News: Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network

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    Source URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-tokens Source: Hacker News Title: Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses recent advancements in quantum computing and its implications for encryption, specifically mentioning quantum tokens and quantum key distribution (QKD). The claims of Chinese researchers regarding RSA encryption were debated,…