Tag: matt

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/updates-to-claude/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude Feedly Summary: Anthropic released two major new features for their consumer-facing Claude apps in the past couple of days. Sadly, they don’t do a very good job of updating the release notes for those apps – neither of these releases came…

  • The Register: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/microsoft_updates_azure_ai_speech/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake Feedly Summary: No way this will be abused Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech.… AI Summary…

  • Cloud Blog: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4-vms-based-on-intel-6th-gen-xeon-granite-rapids-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Now GA: C4 VMs with Local SSD, bare metal, and larger shapes, on Intel Xeon 6 Feedly Summary: We’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our C4 virtual machine series, with the general availability of 28 powerful new shapes. This expansion introduces C4 shapes with Google’s next-gen…

  • Schneier on Security: Measuring the Attack/Defense Balance

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/measuring-the-attack-defense-balance.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Measuring the Attack/Defense Balance Feedly Summary: “Who’s winning on the internet, the attackers or the defenders?” I’m asked this all the time, and I can only ever give a qualitative hand-wavy answer. But Jason Healey and Tarang Jain’s latest Lawfare piece has amassed data. The essay provides…

  • Slashdot: Cyberattack Cripples Russian Airline Aeroflot

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/28/2018201/cyberattack-cripples-russian-airline-aeroflot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cyberattack Cripples Russian Airline Aeroflot Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a cyberattack on Russia’s Aeroflot airline, attributed to Ukrainian and Belarusian hacker groups. This incident exemplifies the vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and the importance of robust cybersecurity measures, particularly in sectors such as…

  • Cloud Blog: Too many threats, too much data, say security and IT leaders. Here’s how to fix that

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/too-many-threats-too-much-data-new-survey-heres-how-to-fix-that/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Too many threats, too much data, say security and IT leaders. Here’s how to fix that Feedly Summary: An overwhelming volume of threats and data combined with the shortage of skilled threat analysts has left many security and IT leaders believing that their organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks…

  • Cloud Blog: Your guide to Google Cloud Security at Black Hat USA 2025

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/your-guide-to-google-cloud-security-at-black-hat-usa-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Your guide to Google Cloud Security at Black Hat USA 2025 Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Security, our mission is to empower organizations to strengthen their defenses with innovative security capabilities, all while simplifying and modernizing their cybersecurity. In a world of evolving threats and increasing complexity, we…

  • The Register: Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/not_pretty_not_windowsonly_npm/ Source: The Register Title: Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware Feedly Summary: The “is" package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the…