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  • The Register: Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/clickfix_castlerat_malware/ Source: The Register Title: Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python Feedly Summary: Pro tip, don’t install PowerShell commands without approval A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by…

  • Cloud Blog: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/troubleshoot-apache-spark-on-dataproc-with-gemini-cloud-assist-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Investigate fast with AI: Gemini Cloud Assist for Dataproc & Serverless for Apache Spark Feedly Summary: Apache Spark is a fundamental part of most modern lakehouse architectures, and Google Cloud’s Dataproc provides a powerful, fully managed platform for running Spark applications. However, for data engineers and scientists, debugging…

  • Cloud Blog: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/agent-factory-recap-keith-ballinger-on-ai-the-future-of-development-and-vibe-coding/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding Feedly Summary: In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Vlad Kolesnikov and I were joined by Keith Ballinger, VP and General Manager at Google Cloud, for a deep dive into the transformative future…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing BigQuery soft failover: Greater control for disaster recovery testing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-managed-disaster-recovery-adds-soft-failover/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing BigQuery soft failover: Greater control for disaster recovery testing Feedly Summary: Most businesses with mission-critical workloads have a two-fold disaster recovery solution in place that 1) replicates data to a secondary location, and 2) enables failover to that location in the event of an outage. For BigQuery,…

  • Schneier on Security: Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/indirect-prompt-injection-attacks-against-llm-assistants.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Assistants Feedly Summary: Really good research on practical attacks against LLM agents. “Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous” Abstract: The growing integration of LLMs into applications has introduced new security risks,…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI To Acquire Product Testing Startup Statsig, Appoints CTO of Applications

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1955214/openai-to-acquire-product-testing-startup-statsig-appoints-cto-of-applications?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI To Acquire Product Testing Startup Statsig, Appoints CTO of Applications Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recent acquisition of Statsig marks a significant step in enhancing its AI product offerings and competitiveness, particularly in product testing and software development areas. With this acquisition, OpenAI aims…

  • Krebs on Security: The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/the-ongoing-fallout-from-a-breach-at-ai-chatbot-maker-salesloft/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft Feedly Summary: The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: The Rise and Fall of Vibe Coding

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibe-coding/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: The Rise and Fall of Vibe Coding Feedly Summary: We’re living through the “Wild West” era of AI-powered software development. Anyone can build custom solutions in minutes rather than months. This creative explosion heads toward a reckoning. Hidden maintenance costs of thousands of “vibe-coded” micro-apps will collide with…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: From Vibe Coding to the New Software Standard

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/from-vibe-coding-to-the-new-software-standard/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: From Vibe Coding to the New Software Standard Feedly Summary: The days of “move fast and break things” are over. Silicon Valley’s engineering teams are trading hoodies for hard hats. The software industry faces its biggest cultural shift in decades: from intuitive “vibe-based” coding to standardized development practices.…