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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting James Luan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/8/james-luan/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting James Luan Feedly Summary: I recently spoke with the CTO of a popular AI note-taking app who told me something surprising: they spend twice as much on vector search as they do on OpenAI API calls. Think about that for a second. Running the retrieval layer…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/stopping-ransomware-before-it-starts/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response Feedly Summary: Explore lessons learned from over two years of Talos IR pre-ransomware engagements, highlighting the key security measures, indicators and recommendations that have proven effective in stopping ransomware attacks before they begin. AI Summary and…

  • 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: 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,…

  • 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…