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  • The Register: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/perplexity_vexed_by_cloudflares_claims/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad Feedly Summary: AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network…

  • Docker: Everyone’s a Snowflake: Designing Hardened Image Processes for the Real World

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/hardened-image-best-practices/ Source: Docker Title: Everyone’s a Snowflake: Designing Hardened Image Processes for the Real World Feedly Summary: Hardened container images and distroless software are the new hotness as startups and incumbents alike pile into the fast-growing market. In theory, hardened images provide not only a smaller attack surface but operational simplicity. In practice,…

  • The Register: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/millions_of_dell_pc_with/ Source: The Register Title: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack Feedly Summary: Psst, wanna steal someone’s biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users’ devices,…

  • OpenAI : Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/estimating-worst-case-frontier-risks-of-open-weight-llms Source: OpenAI Title: Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs Feedly Summary: In this paper, we study the worst-case frontier risks of releasing gpt-oss. We introduce malicious fine-tuning (MFT), where we attempt to elicit maximum capabilities by fine-tuning gpt-oss to be as capable as possible in two domains: biology and…

  • OpenAI : gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/gpt-oss-model-card Source: OpenAI Title: gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card Feedly Summary: We introduce gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two open-weight reasoning models available under the Apache 2.0 license and our gpt-oss usage policy. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The introduction of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b highlights the development of open-weight reasoning models, which reflects significant…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: ReVault! When your SoC turns against you…

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/revault-when-your-soc-turns-against-you/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: ReVault! When your SoC turns against you… Feedly Summary: Talos reported 5 vulnerabilities to Broadcom and Dell affecting both the ControlVault3 Firmware and its associated Windows APIs that we are calling “ReVault”.  AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The report details significant vulnerabilities discovered in Dell’s ControlVault3…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

  • The Register: SonicWall investigates ‘cyber incidents,’ including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/sonicwall_investigates_cyber_incidents/ Source: The Register Title: SonicWall investigates ‘cyber incidents,’ including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day Feedly Summary: Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with ‘schmero-day’ SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it’s investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit…