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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Benj Edwards

Aug 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/30/benj-edwards/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Benj Edwards Feedly Summary: LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call “vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating from no one at all. — Benj Edwards Tags: benj-edwards, ai-personality,…

Krebs on Security: Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

Jul 3, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/big-techs-mixed-response-to-u-s-treasury-sanctions/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions Feedly Summary: In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused…

Schneier on Security: CVE Program Almost Unfunded

Apr 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/cve-program-almost-unfunded.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: CVE Program Almost Unfunded Feedly Summary: Mitre’s CVE’s program—which provides common naming and other informational resources about cybersecurity vulnerabilities—was about to be cancelled, as the US Department of Homeland Security failed to renew the contact. It was funded for eleven more months at the last minute. This…

Cloud Blog: Google Cloud and Oracle accelerate enterprise modernization with new offerings, regions, and capabilities

Apr 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/google-cloud-and-oracle-accelerate-enterprise-modernization/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud and Oracle accelerate enterprise modernization with new offerings, regions, and capabilities Feedly Summary: Supporting customers where they want to be is a core value at Google Cloud, and a big part of the reason that we have partnered with Oracle — so that you can innovate…

Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 20, 2025

Jan 27, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-026 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 20, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info aEnrich Technology–a+HRD The a+HRD from aEnrich Technology has a SQL Injection vulnerability, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to inject arbitrary SQL commands to read, modify, and delete database…

The Register: Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon

Jan 23, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/oracle_patch_linux/ Source: The Register Title: Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon Feedly Summary: Old flaws that keep causing trouble haunt Big Red Oracle has delivered its regular quarterly collection of patches: 603 in total, 318 for its own products, and another 285 for Linux code it…

Slashdot: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location

Jan 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/10/0056202/see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a significant privacy concern involving popular apps that are being exploited to harvest sensitive location data through the advertising ecosystem. This data, which is aggregated by rogue…

Wired: Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

Jan 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/ Source: Wired Title: Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location Feedly Summary: A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

Dec 3, 2024

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/3/names-make-chatgpt-grind-to-a-halt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why Feedly Summary: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why Benj Edwards on the really weird behavior where ChatGPT stops output with an error rather than producing the names David Mayer,…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast

Nov 22, 2024

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/22/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: asynchronous LLMs, synchronous embeddings, and I kind of started a podcast Feedly Summary: These past few weeks I’ve been bringing Datasette and LLM together and distracting myself with a new sort-of-podcast crossed with a live streaming experiment. Project: interviewing people about their projects Datasette Public Office…

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