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  • Slashdot: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1612259/proton-begins-shifting-infrastructure-outside-of-switzerland-ahead-of-surveillance-legislation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Proton is proactively relocating its infrastructure outside Switzerland in response to forthcoming surveillance legislation that poses threats to user privacy and data retention requirements. The move begins with the AI…

  • The Register: Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/cisco_secure_firewall_management_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole Feedly Summary: Switchzilla’s summer of perfect 10s Cisco has issued a patch for a maximum-severity bug in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/database-center-expands-coverage/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center Feedly Summary: Database Center is an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that can help you identify and address security risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues for Google Cloud databases including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. Today,…

  • Embrace The Red: Google Jules is Vulnerable To Invisible Prompt Injection

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/google-jules-invisible-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Google Jules is Vulnerable To Invisible Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The latest Gemini models quite reliably interpret hidden Unicode Tag characters as instructions. This vulnerability, first reported to Google over a year ago, has not been mitigated at the model or API level, hence now affects all…

  • The Register: Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/london_telco_colts_services_disrupted/ Source: The Register Title: Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Feedly Summary: London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as ‘protective measure’ following breach Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a “cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a…

  • The Register: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/cobol_in_the_public_sector_feature/ Source: The Register Title: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Feedly Summary: Government: ‘Trust us, it’ll be different this time’ Feature The UK government has gone all-in on AI. More than 50 years after Harold Wilson gave his famous “White heat of technology" speech, this is the hot…

  • The Register: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/llm_chatbots_trivial_to_weaponise/ Source: The Register Title: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Feedly Summary: System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into ‘investigator’ and ‘detective’ roles that bypass privacy guardrails A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious…