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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-national.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: DOGE as a National Cyberattack Feedly Summary: In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/nomic-embed-text-v2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model Feedly Summary: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model Nomic continue to release the most interesting and powerful embedding models. Their latest is Embed Text V2, an Apache 2.0 licensed multi-lingual 1.9GB…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/building-a-snap-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Feedly Summary: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps). This is a domain which existing models…

Microsoft Security Blog: The BadPilot campaign: Seashell Blizzard subgroup conducts multiyear global access operation

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/02/12/the-badpilot-campaign-seashell-blizzard-subgroup-conducts-multiyear-global-access-operation/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: The BadPilot campaign: Seashell Blizzard subgroup conducts multiyear global access operation Feedly Summary: Microsoft is publishing for the first time our research into a subgroup within the Russian state actor Seashell Blizzard and its multiyear initial access operation, tracked by Microsoft Threat Intelligence as the “BadPilot campaign”.…

Anchore: STIG in Action: Continuous Compliance with MITRE & Anchore

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Source URL: https://anchore.com/events/stig-in-action-continuous-compliance-with-mitre-anchore/ Source: Anchore Title: STIG in Action: Continuous Compliance with MITRE & Anchore Feedly Summary: The post STIG in Action: Continuous Compliance with MITRE & Anchore appeared first on Anchore. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an upcoming webinar focused on STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide) compliance, emphasizing recent NIST…

The Register: UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/uk_gov_ai_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: UK government insiders say AI datacenters may be a pricey white elephant Feedly Summary: Economy-boosting bit barn? Not in my back yard, some locals expected to say The British government is pressing ahead with “AI Growth Zones" amid fears the rush to build datacenters to power AI could…

Cloud Blog: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat Feedly Summary: Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this…

The Register: Yup, AMD’s Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security

Feb 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/cisco_amd_dpu/ Source: The Register Title: Yup, AMD’s Elba and Giglio definitely sound like they work corporate security Feedly Summary: Which is why Cisco is adding these Pensando DPUs to more switches Cisco is cramming into more of its switches Pensando data processing units (DPUs) from AMD, which will be dedicated to handling security,…

Hacker News: ASTRA: HackerRank’s coding benchmark for LLMs

Feb 11, 2025

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