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  • Hacker News: Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/ Source: Hacker News Title: Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents serious allegations against Meta regarding copyright violations involving the unauthorized use of pirated books for training AI models. Newly revealed emails indicate substantial illegal downloading and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/7/pip-install-llm-smollm2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB Feedly Summary: I just released llm-smollm2, a new plugin for LLM that bundles a quantized copy of the SmolLM2-135M-Instruct LLM inside of the Python package. This means you can now pip install a full LLM! If…

  • Hacker News: Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes

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    Source URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/go-1-24-fips-update/ Source: Hacker News Title: Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advancements in Go 1.24’s cryptography packages towards achieving FIPS 140-3 compliance, emphasizing significant changes that enhance security for developers using Go. Key improvements include native support for FIPS-compliant libraries, streamlined…

  • Hacker News: iPhone apps found on App Store with malware that reads your screenshots for data

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    Source URL: https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/05/iphone-apps-on-app-store-malware-reads-screenshots/ Source: Hacker News Title: iPhone apps found on App Store with malware that reads your screenshots for data Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered a novel malware, termed ‘SparkCat’, embedded in iOS and Android apps, utilizing screenshot-reading OCR technology to search for sensitive recovery…

  • Hacker News: Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs

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    Source URL: https://n0rdy.foo/posts/20250121/okta-bcrypt-lessons-for-better-apis/ Source: Hacker News Title: Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security incident involving Okta and the vulnerabilities associated with the Bcrypt hashing algorithm when utilized improperly. It highlights how the lack of input validation in some cryptographic…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o3-mini-documentation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation Feedly Summary: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting…

  • Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2  Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

  • Hacker News: Hell Is Overconfident Developers Writing Encryption Code

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    Source URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/01/31/hell-is-overconfident-developers-writing-encryption-code/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hell Is Overconfident Developers Writing Encryption Code Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text critically discusses the pervasive issue of developers attempting to create their own cryptographic solutions, often without the necessary expertise, thereby undermining information security. It highlights examples of poor implementation and…

  • Hacker News: Why Tracebit is written in C#

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    Source URL: https://tracebit.com/blog/why-tracebit-is-written-in-c-sharp Source: Hacker News Title: Why Tracebit is written in C# Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the decision behind choosing C# as the programming language for a B2B SaaS security product, Tracebit. It highlights key factors such as productivity, open-source viability, cross-platform capabilities, language popularity, memory…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Whatsup Gold, Observium and Offis vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/whatsup-gold-observium-offis-vulnerabilities/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Whatsup Gold, Observium and Offis vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Research team recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in Observium, three vulnerabilities in Offis, and four vulnerabilities in Whatsup Gold.   These vulnerabilities exist in Observium, a network observation and monitoring system; Offis DCMTK, a collection of libraries and applications…