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  • The Register: I’m a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/it_worker_scam/ Source: The Register Title: I’m a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice Feedly Summary: Remote position, webcam not working, then glitchy AI face … Red alert! Twice, over the past two months, Dawid Moczadło has interviewed purported job seekers only to discover that these…

  • Hacker News: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

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    Source URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research/metas-hyperscale-infrastructure-overview-and-insights/ Source: Hacker News Title: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth overview of Meta’s hyperscale infrastructure, highlighting its engineering culture, productivity initiatives, hardware-software co-design, and innovative strategies for optimizing performance and reducing costs. The insights offered are relevant for…

  • Hacker News: Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware

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    Source URL: https://www.mend.io/blog/fake-vs-code-extension-on-npm-spreads-multi-stage-malware/ Source: Hacker News Title: Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a recent discovery of a malicious VS-code extension that employs typosquatting tactics to deliver multi-stage malware to unsuspecting developers. The incident highlights critical security vulnerabilities in…

  • Hacker News: Memory profilers, call graphs, exception reports, and telemetry

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    Source URL: https://www.nuanced.dev/blog/system-wide-context Source: Hacker News Title: Memory profilers, call graphs, exception reports, and telemetry Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges that developers face with AI coding assistants due to the lack of crucial operational context in debugging scenarios. It outlines a series of experiments aimed at…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Small praise for modern compilers – A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/small-praise-for-modern-compilers-a-case-of-ubuntu-printing-vulnerability-that-wasnt/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Small praise for modern compilers – A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t Feedly Summary: By Aleksandar NikolichEarlier this year, we conducted code audits of the macOS printing subsystem, which is heavily based on the open-source CUPS package. During this investigation, IPP-USB protocol caught our attention.…

  • The Register: London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/london_has_400_gw_of/ Source: The Register Title: London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds Feedly Summary: And up to 70% of stalled energy generation projects are unlikely to be approved, claims regulator Ofgem While the UK government wants to turbocharge datacenter construction, a newly published report says there are already 400…

  • The Register: Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age – with itself in the middle

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/cloudflare_q4_2024_ai_web/ Source: The Register Title: Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age – with itself in the middle Feedly Summary: Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements Cloudflare has declared it’s found optimizations that reduce the amount of hardware needed for inferencing workloads, and is in…

  • Hacker News: Library Sandboxing for Verona

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    Source URL: https://github.com/microsoft/verona-sandbox Source: Hacker News Title: Library Sandboxing for Verona Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a process-based sandboxing mechanism designed for the Verona programming language, emphasizing security features that aim to maintain safe execution of untrusted libraries. This innovative approach to sandboxing can significantly enhance security in…