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  • Slashdot: Google Suffers Data Breach in Ongoing Salesforce Data Theft Attacks

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/06/1556252/google-suffers-data-breach-in-ongoing-salesforce-data-theft-attacks Source: Slashdot Title: Google Suffers Data Breach in Ongoing Salesforce Data Theft Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a recent data breach incident involving Google, where the company fell victim to a Salesforce CRM data theft orchestrated by the ShinyHunters group. This incident highlights the growing…

  • Krebs on Security: Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/who-got-arrested-in-the-raid-on-the-xss-crime-forum/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum? Feedly Summary: On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than…

  • The Register: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/mcpoison_bug_abuses_cursor_mcp/ Source: The Register Title: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution Feedly Summary: More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/1848236/openai-releases-first-open-weight-models-since-gpt-2?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s release of two open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marks a significant development in the AI landscape since 2019. These models enable local deployment on consumer devices and introduce advanced capabilities such as…

  • Slashdot: Google Agrees To Pause AI Workloads To Protect the Grid When Power Demand Spikes

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/0144232/google-agrees-to-pause-ai-workloads-to-protect-the-grid-when-power-demand-spikes?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Agrees To Pause AI Workloads To Protect the Grid When Power Demand Spikes Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has announced a pause on non-essential AI workloads to safeguard power grids in response to expected high energy demands due to extreme weather conditions. This proactive…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

  • Slashdot: CrowdStrike Investigated 320 North Korean IT Worker Cases In the Past Year

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/2032214/crowdstrike-investigated-320-north-korean-it-worker-cases-in-the-past-year Source: Slashdot Title: CrowdStrike Investigated 320 North Korean IT Worker Cases In the Past Year Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a significant rise in North Korean operatives using generative AI to infiltrate tech jobs globally, particularly within Fortune 500 and smaller organizations. CrowdStrike’s observations underline a…

  • The Register: SonicWall investigates ‘cyber incidents,’ including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/sonicwall_investigates_cyber_incidents/ Source: The Register Title: SonicWall investigates ‘cyber incidents,’ including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day Feedly Summary: Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with ‘schmero-day’ SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it’s investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit…