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  • Slashdot: New NSA/CISA Report Again Urges the Use of Memory-Safe Programming Language

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/29/1956256/new-nsacisa-report-again-urges-the-use-of-memory-safe-programming-language?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: New NSA/CISA Report Again Urges the Use of Memory-Safe Programming Language Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report from CISA and NSA emphasizes the critical importance of adopting memory-safe programming languages to enhance software security and reduce vulnerabilities. It outlines both the benefits and challenges associated…

  • Cloud Blog: Using Platform Engineering to simplify the developer experience – part one

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/simplifying-platform-engineering-at-john-lewis-part-one/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Using Platform Engineering to simplify the developer experience – part one Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: This is part one of the story. After you’re finished reading, head over to part two.  In 2017, John Lewis, a major UK retailer with a £2.5bn annual online turnover, was hampered by…

  • Embrace The Red: Security Advisory: Anthropic’s Slack MCP Server Vulnerable to Data Exfiltration

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/security-advisory-anthropic-slack-mcp-server-data-leakage/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Security Advisory: Anthropic’s Slack MCP Server Vulnerable to Data Exfiltration Feedly Summary: This is a security advisory for a data leakage and exfiltration vulnerability in a popular, but now deprecated and unmaintained, Slack MCP Server from Anthropic. If you are using this MCP server, or run an…

  • AWS News Blog: New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-improve-apache-iceberg-query-performance-in-amazon-s3-with-sort-and-z-order-compaction/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction Feedly Summary: Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…

  • Cloud Blog: Enhancing backup vaults with support for Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, and multi-regions

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/backup-vaults-add-support-for-disk-backup-and-multi-region/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Enhancing backup vaults with support for Persistent Disk, Hyperdisk, and multi-regions Feedly Summary: To help protect against evolving digital threats like ransomware and malicious deletions, last year, we introduced backup vault in the Google Cloud Backup and DR service, with support for Compute Engine VM backups. This provided…

  • Cloud Blog: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4d-vms-unparalleled-performance-for-business-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4D now GA: up to 80% higher performance for your business critical workloads Feedly Summary: We’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation C4D virtual machine family. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) paired with Google Titanium’s latest advancements, C4D provides customers with meaningful…

  • CSA: Runtime Integrity Measurement Overview

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    Source URL: https://www.invary.com/articles/runtime-integrity-measurement-overview Source: CSA Title: Runtime Integrity Measurement Overview Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the complexities and challenges associated with kernel mode rootkits, particularly focusing on the Drovorub malware, which represents a sophisticated threat to operating systems. It highlights the difficulties in detecting such rootkits and presents Kernel…