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  • Slashdot: Are Software Registries Inherently Insecure?

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/2318202/are-software-registries-inherently-insecure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Are Software Registries Inherently Insecure? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the persistent issues related to software supply chain attacks, emphasizing weaknesses in the design of software registries like npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub. It highlights how inadequate safeguards allowed for multiple registry breaches…

  • Slashdot: Mouse Sensors Can Pick Up Speech From Surface Vibrations, Researchers Show

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/2225224/mouse-sensors-can-pick-up-speech-from-surface-vibrations-researchers-show?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Mouse Sensors Can Pick Up Speech From Surface Vibrations, Researchers Show Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have identified a security vulnerability in high-performance optical mice that can be exploited to capture audio data from a user’s environment, effectively turning…

  • Slashdot: Jeff Bezos Predicts Gigawatt Data Centers in Space Within Two Decades

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/1426244/jeff-bezos-predicts-gigawatt-data-centers-in-space-within-two-decades?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Jeff Bezos Predicts Gigawatt Data Centers in Space Within Two Decades Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Jeff Bezos envisions the future of data centers in space, predicting that gigawatt-scale facilities will be established within the next 10 to 20 years. These space-based data centers could outperform…

  • Slashdot: Google Says Hackers Are Sending Extortion Emails To Executives

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/02/1812256/google-says-hackers-are-sending-extortion-emails-to-executives?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Says Hackers Are Sending Extortion Emails To Executives Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has reported that hackers associated with the ransomware group cl0p are sending extortion emails to executives, threatening the release of stolen sensitive data from Oracle business applications. The authenticity of these…

  • Tomasz Tunguz: Data & AI Infrastructure Are Fusing

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    Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/data–ai-infrastructure-are-fusing/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: Data & AI Infrastructure Are Fusing Feedly Summary: AI breaks the data stack. Most enterprises spent the past decade building sophisticated data stacks. ETL pipelines move data into warehouses. Transformation layers clean data for analytics. BI tools surface insights to users. This architecture worked for traditional analytics. But…

  • The Register: Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/subpoena_tracking_platform_outage_blamed/ Source: The Register Title: Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack Feedly Summary: Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after…

  • The Register: OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/openai_ropes_in_samsung_and/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject Feedly Summary: Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month OpenAI has persuaded two of South Korea’s chip titans to fuel its bid to build the biggest…

  • The Register: Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/cybercrims_claim_raid_on_28000/ Source: The Register Title: Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files Feedly Summary: 570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat’s private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive…

  • The Register: US Air Force investigates ‘privacy-related issue’ amid rumored SharePoint shutdown

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/us_air_force_investigates_breach/ Source: The Register Title: US Air Force investigates ‘privacy-related issue’ amid rumored SharePoint shutdown Feedly Summary: Uncle Sam can’t quit Redmond Exclusive The US Air Force confirmed it’s investigating a “privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable…