Tag: liability

Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amazon-q-developer-data-exfil-via-dns/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Amazon Q Developer: Secrets Leaked via DNS and Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The next three posts will cover high severity vulnerabilities in the Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q), which is a very popular coding agent, with over 1 million downloads. It is vulnerable to…

Slashdot: Male-Oriented App ‘TeaOnHer’ Also Had Security Flaws That Could Leak Men’s Driver’s License Photos

Aug 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/0550252/male-oriented-app-teaonher-also-had-security-flaws-that-could-leak-mens-drivers-license-photos?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Male-Oriented App ‘TeaOnHer’ Also Had Security Flaws That Could Leak Men’s Driver’s License Photos Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses data breaches and security flaws in two dating-advice apps, focusing on the implications of such incidents for user privacy and corporate liability. These issues…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: TIL: Running a gpt-oss eval suite against LM Studio on a Mac

Aug 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/17/gpt-oss-eval-suite/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TIL: Running a gpt-oss eval suite against LM Studio on a Mac Feedly Summary: TIL: Running a gpt-oss eval suite against LM Studio on a Mac The other day I learned that OpenAI published a set of evals as part of their gpt-oss model release, described in…

Slashdot: Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions

Aug 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/16/1749228/remember-the-companies-making-vital-open-source-contributions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the critical role of large tech companies in contributing to open-source projects, emphasizing that their involvement often stems from self-interest rather than altruism. It underscores how significant contributions from companies…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/gpt-5-has-a-hidden-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt Feedly Summary: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt It looks like GPT-5 when accessed via the OpenAI API may have its own hidden system prompt, independent from the system prompt you can specify in an API call. At the very least…

AWS News Blog: AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-named-as-a-leader-in-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-strategic-cloud-platform-services-for-15-years-in-a-row/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row Feedly Summary: AWS is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for the fifteenth consecutive year. In the…

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,…

Cloud Blog: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms

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