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  • Slashdot: Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Alleged Antitrust Violations

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/08/25/1528251/musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-over-alleged-antitrust-violations Source: Slashdot Title: Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Alleged Antitrust Violations Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a legal dispute involving Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, which has filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. The lawsuit accuses these companies of colluding to suppress competition…

  • Slashdot: FBI Warns Russian Hackers Targeted ‘Thousands’ of Critical US Infrastructure IT Systems

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/24/0638238/fbi-warns-russian-hackers-targeted-thousands-of-critical-us-infrastructure-it-systems?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FBI Warns Russian Hackers Targeted ‘Thousands’ of Critical US Infrastructure IT Systems Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines a significant security threat posed by Russian state-sponsored hackers targeting U.S. critical infrastructure through vulnerabilities in Cisco devices. The report emphasizes the risks posed by unpatched…

  • Slashdot: Arch Linux Faces ‘Ongoing’ DDoS Attack

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/23/0513229/arch-linux-faces-ongoing-ddos-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Arch Linux Faces ‘Ongoing’ DDoS Attack Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a DDoS attack on the Arch Linux community, emphasizing the security challenges faced by volunteer-driven projects and their reliance on external hosting and infrastructure. It highlights the ongoing mitigation efforts by the…

  • The Register: Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/23/searchcapable_ai_agents_may_cheat/ Source: The Register Title: Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Feedly Summary: Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving…

  • Slashdot: Amid Service Disruption, Colt Telecom Confirms ‘Criminal Group’ Accessed Their Data, As Ransomware Gang Threatens to Sell It

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/23/0910226/amid-service-disruption-colt-telecom-confirms-criminal-group-accessed-their-data-as-ransomware-gang-threatens-to-sell-it?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amid Service Disruption, Colt Telecom Confirms ‘Criminal Group’ Accessed Their Data, As Ransomware Gang Threatens to Sell It Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant cyber attack on Colt Telecom that has led to prolonged service disruptions and the theft of customer documentation.…

  • Embrace The Red: Windsurf: Memory-Persistent Data Exfiltration (SpAIware Exploit)

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/windsurf-spaiware-exploit-persistent-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Windsurf: Memory-Persistent Data Exfiltration (SpAIware Exploit) Feedly Summary: In this second post about Windsurf Cascade we are exploring the SpAIware attack, which allows memory persistent data exfiltration. SpAIware is an attack we first successfully demonstrated with ChatGPT last year and OpenAI mitigated. While inspecting the system prompt…

  • The Register: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/microsoft_nvidia_openai_power_grid/ Source: The Register Title: AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Feedly Summary: Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes Researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have issued a call to designers of software, hardware, infrastructure, and utilities for help finding…

  • Cloud Blog: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/gemini-cloud-assist-investigations-performs-root-cause-analysis/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Don’t just speculate, investigate! Gemini Cloud Assist now offers root-cause analysis Feedly Summary: Debugging in a complex, distributed cloud environment can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. The sheer volume of data, intertwined dependencies, and ephemeral issues make traditional troubleshooting methods time-consuming and often reactive.…

  • The Register: Don’t cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/22/ftc_us_censorship/ Source: The Register Title: Don’t cave to Euro censorship or backdoor demands, Uncle Sam warns US tech firms Feedly Summary: FTC chair: Companies could face enforcement if they give in The head of America’s consumer watchdog has issued a stark warning to some of the biggest names in the tech sphere –…