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  • Slashdot: Microsoft Reportedly Cuts China’s Early Access to Bug Disclosures, PoC Exploit Code

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/22/2059255/microsoft-reportedly-cuts-chinas-early-access-to-bug-disclosures-poc-exploit-code Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Reportedly Cuts China’s Early Access to Bug Disclosures, PoC Exploit Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has modified its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to restrict access to proof-of-concept exploit code for companies in certain countries, including China, to combat the leak of sensitive…

  • The Register: Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/clickfix_report/ Source: The Register Title: Fake CAPTCHA tests trick users into running malware Feedly Summary: ClickFix tricks Microsoft’s security team has published an in-depth report into ClickFix, the social engineering attack which tricks users into executing malicious commands in the guise of proving their humanity.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s security…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing ‘Gemini for Government’: Supporting the U.S. Government’s Transformation with AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/introducing-gemini-for-government-supporting-the-us-governments-transformation-with-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing ‘Gemini for Government’: Supporting the U.S. Government’s Transformation with AI Feedly Summary: Google is proud to support the U.S. government in its modernization efforts through the use of AI. Today, in partnership with the General Services Administration (GSA) and in support of the next phase of the…

  • Slashdot: AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/1936221/ai-is-reshaping-hacking-no-one-agrees-how-fast Source: Slashdot Title: AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements in AI agents presented at the Black Hat conference, highlighting how these innovations could potentially enhance the capabilities of cybersecurity defenders. However, it also underscores the duality of…

  • AWS News Blog: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/celebrating-10-years-of-amazon-aurora-innovation/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation Feedly Summary: Amazon Aurora is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a livestream event on August 21, 2025, highlighting a decade of database innovation since its groundbreaking architecture that decoupled storage from compute. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers Feedly Summary: Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model – OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b – performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the one with the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/14/gemma-3-270m/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI Feedly Summary: Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI New from Google: Gemma 3 270M, a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring…