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  • The Register: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/cobalt_strikes_ai_successor_downloaded/ Source: The Register Title: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months Feedly Summary: Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack – sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as “Cobalt Strike’s…

  • Cloud Blog: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/prove-your-expertise-with-our-new-secops-engineer-certification/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification Feedly Summary: Security leaders are clear about their priorities: After AI, cloud security is the top training topic for decision-makers. As threats against cloud workloads become more sophisticated, organizations are looking for highly-skilled professionals to help defend against…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • The Register: Akira ransomware crims abusing trifecta of SonicWall security holes for extortion attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/akira_ransomware_abusing_sonicwall/ Source: The Register Title: Akira ransomware crims abusing trifecta of SonicWall security holes for extortion attacks Feedly Summary: Patch, turn on MFA, and restrict access to trusted networks…or else Affiliates of the Akira ransomware gang are again exploiting a critical SonicWall vulnerability abused last summer, after a suspected zero-day flaw actually turned…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…

  • The Register: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/cadence_systems_adds_nvidias_biggest/ Source: The Register Title: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim Feedly Summary: Using GPUs to design better bit barns for GPUs? It’s the circle of AI With the rush to capitalize on the gen AI boom, datacenters have never been hotter. But before signing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude API: Web fetch tool

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/10/claude-web-fetch-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude API: Web fetch tool Feedly Summary: Claude API: Web fetch tool New in the Claude API: if you pass the web-fetch-2025-09-10 beta header you can add {“type": "web_fetch_20250910", "name": "web_fetch", "max_uses": 5} to your "tools" list and Claude will gain the ability to fetch content from…

  • Cloud Blog: Fast and efficient AI inference with new NVIDIA Dynamo recipe on AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-inference-recipe-using-nvidia-dynamo-with-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Fast and efficient AI inference with new NVIDIA Dynamo recipe on AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: As generative AI becomes more widespread, it’s important for developers and ML engineers to be able to easily configure infrastructure that supports efficient AI inference, i.e., using a trained AI model to make…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Maturing the cyber threat intelligence program

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/maturing-the-cyber-threat-intelligence-program/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Maturing the cyber threat intelligence program Feedly Summary: The Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability Maturity Model (CTI-CMM) helps organizations assess and improve their threat intelligence programs by outlining 11 key areas and specific missions where CTI can support decision-making.  AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Cyber Threat…