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  • Slashdot: Canadian Telecom Hacked By Suspected China State Group

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/23/201237/canadian-telecom-hacked-by-suspected-china-state-group?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Canadian Telecom Hacked By Suspected China State Group Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines a significant cyber attack on a Canadian telecommunications provider by hackers associated with the Chinese government, exploiting a critical vulnerability in Cisco devices. This incident underscores the importance of timely…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: How OpenElections Uses LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/19/how-openelections-uses-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How OpenElections Uses LLMs Feedly Summary: How OpenElections Uses LLMs The OpenElections project collects detailed election data for the USA, all the way down to the precinct level. This is a surprisingly hard problem: while county and state-level results are widely available, precinct-level results are published in…

  • Security Info Watch: Huntress launches Threat Simulator to educate users—from the hacker’s perspective

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    Source URL: https://www.securityinfowatch.com/cybersecurity/press-release/55296212/huntress-huntress-launches-threat-simulator-to-educate-usersfrom-the-hackers-perspective Source: Security Info Watch Title: Huntress launches Threat Simulator to educate users—from the hacker’s perspective Feedly Summary: Huntress launches Threat Simulator to educate users—from the hacker’s perspective AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Huntress has launched Threat Simulator, an interactive training tool designed to enhance security awareness by simulating real-world hacker tactics.…

  • Krebs on Security: Proxy Services Feast on Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/proxy-services-feast-on-ukraines-ip-address-exodus/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Proxy Services Feast on Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus Feedly Summary: Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/5/openai-court-order/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats Feedly Summary: OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats This is very worrying. The New York Times v OpenAI lawsuit, now in its 17th month, includes accusations that OpenAI’s models…

  • Slashdot: Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/05/0023243/chinese-hacked-us-telecom-a-year-before-known-wireless-breaches?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The reported intrusion of Chinese hackers into an American telecommunications company in 2023 raises significant concerns about the vulnerabilities in U.S. communications infrastructure. Evidence suggests state-sponsored cyber activity has been ongoing…

  • Wired: The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-ai-hacker-agents/ Source: Wired Title: The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare Feedly Summary: In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a concerning trend in cybersecurity where blackhat…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kenton Varda

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/kenton-varda/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kenton Varda Feedly Summary: It took me a few days to build the library [cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider] with AI. I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. That said, this is a pretty ideal use case: implementing a well-known standard on…