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  • The Register: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/eggstreme_malware_china_philippines/ Source: The Register Title: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say Feedly Summary: Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem ‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory…

  • Slashdot: RSS Co-Creator Launches New Protocol For AI Data Licensing

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2320207/rss-co-creator-launches-new-protocol-for-ai-data-licensing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: RSS Co-Creator Launches New Protocol For AI Data Licensing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Real Simple Licensing (RSL) initiative seeks to standardize and simplify the licensing of online content for AI training, backed by major publishers such as Reddit and Medium. It aims to create…

  • The Register: Akira ransomware crims abusing trifecta of SonicWall security holes for extortion attacks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/akira_ransomware_abusing_sonicwall/ Source: The Register Title: Akira ransomware crims abusing trifecta of SonicWall security holes for extortion attacks Feedly Summary: Patch, turn on MFA, and restrict access to trusted networks…or else Affiliates of the Akira ransomware gang are again exploiting a critical SonicWall vulnerability abused last summer, after a suspected zero-day flaw actually turned…

  • Slashdot: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2039218/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent outage of Anthropic’s AI services, impacting developers’ access to Claude.ai and related tools. This transient disruption highlights concerns about the reliability of AI infrastructures,…

  • The Register: AI can’t be woke and regulators should be asleep, Senator Cruz says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/ai_cruz_sandbox/ Source: The Register Title: AI can’t be woke and regulators should be asleep, Senator Cruz says Feedly Summary: We went through two hours of Senate hearings so you didn’t have to Video The Trump administration is pushing to loosen federal rules on AI, with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introducing legislation to give…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…

  • The Register: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/cadence_systems_adds_nvidias_biggest/ Source: The Register Title: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim Feedly Summary: Using GPUs to design better bit barns for GPUs? It’s the circle of AI With the rush to capitalize on the gen AI boom, datacenters have never been hotter. But before signing…

  • Wired: Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/microsofts-ai-chief-says-machine-consciousness-is-an-illusion/ Source: Wired Title: Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’ Feedly Summary: Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mustafa Suleyman’s assertion regarding the design of AI systems highlights significant…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude API: Web fetch tool

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/10/claude-web-fetch-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude API: Web fetch tool Feedly Summary: Claude API: Web fetch tool New in the Claude API: if you pass the web-fetch-2025-09-10 beta header you can add {“type": "web_fetch_20250910", "name": "web_fetch", "max_uses": 5} to your "tools" list and Claude will gain the ability to fetch content from…