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  • Slashdot: Misinformation and Cyberespionage Top WEF’s Global Risks Report 2025

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/004211/misinformation-and-cyberespionage-top-wefs-global-risks-report-2025?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Misinformation and Cyberespionage Top WEF’s Global Risks Report 2025 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 outlines significant risks posed by misinformation generated through AI tools, particularly highlighting the impact of state-sponsored campaigns on democratic systems. Additionally, cyberespionage emerges as…

  • Wired: Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/subaru-location-tracking-vulnerabilities/ Source: Wired Title: Subaru Security Flaws Exposed Its System for Tracking Millions of Cars Feedly Summary: Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still can. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • The Register: Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/asus_amd_processor_fix/ Source: The Register Title: Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress Feedly Summary: Answers on a postcard to what ‘Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability’ might mean AMD has confirmed at least some of its microprocessors suffer a microcode-related security vulnerability, the existence of which accidentally emerged this…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: r1.py script to run R1 with a min-thinking-tokens parameter

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/r1py/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: r1.py script to run R1 with a min-thinking-tokens parameter Feedly Summary: r1.py script to run R1 with a min-thinking-tokens parameter Fantastically creative hack by Theia Vogel. The DeepSeek R1 family of models output their chain of thought inside a …</think> block. Theia found that you can intercept…

  • Hacker News: Reverse Engineering Call of Duty Anti-Cheat

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    Source URL: https://ssno.cc/posts/reversing-tac-1-4-2025/ Source: Hacker News Title: Reverse Engineering Call of Duty Anti-Cheat Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents an in-depth analysis of the user-mode anti-cheat mechanism employed in the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War,” referred to as TAC (Treyarch Anti-Cheat). It details the obfuscation…

  • Hacker News: Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition

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    Source URL: https://courk.cc/rp2350-challenge-laser Source: Hacker News Title: Laser Fault Injection on a Budget: RP2350 Edition Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the development of a custom “Laser Fault Injection Platform” aimed at exploiting the security features of the RP2350 microcontroller, particularly its Secure Boot mechanism. This exploration reveals potential…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek API Docs: Rate Limit

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/18/deepseek-api-docs-rate-limit/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek API Docs: Rate Limit Feedly Summary: DeepSeek API Docs: Rate Limit This is surprising: DeepSeek offer the only hosted LLM API I’ve seen that doesn’t implement rate limits: DeepSeek API does NOT constrain user’s rate limit. We will try out best to serve every request. However,…

  • Hacker News: A New type of web hacking technique: DoubleClickjacking

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    Source URL: https://www.paulosyibelo.com/2024/12/doubleclickjacking-what.html Source: Hacker News Title: A New type of web hacking technique: DoubleClickjacking Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text introduces the concept of “DoubleClickjacking,” a sophisticated web vulnerability that builds upon traditional clickjacking techniques by exploiting event timing between double clicks. This novel approach allows attackers to bypass…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17/1658230/microsoft-research-ai-systems-cannot-be-made-fully-secure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Research: AI Systems Cannot Be Made Fully Secure Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by Microsoft researchers highlights the inherent security vulnerabilities of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs). Despite defensive measures, the researchers assert that AI products will remain susceptible to…