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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/12/notes-on-googles-gemma-3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3 Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemma team released an impressive new model today (under their not-open-source Gemma license). Gemma 3 comes in four sizes – 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B – and while 1B is text-only the larger three models are all multi-modal for…

  • Cloud Blog: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-espionage-targets-juniper-routers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers Feedly Summary: Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New XCSSET malware adds new obfuscation, persistence techniques to infect Xcode projects

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/11/new-xcsset-malware-adds-new-obfuscation-persistence-techniques-to-infect-xcode-projects/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New XCSSET malware adds new obfuscation, persistence techniques to infect Xcode projects Feedly Summary: Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new variant of XCSSET, a sophisticated modular macOS malware that infects Xcode projects, in the wild. Its first known variant since 2022, this latest XCSSET malware features…

  • OpenAI : Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/chain-of-thought-monitoring Source: OpenAI Title: Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models Feedly Summary: Frontier reasoning models exploit loopholes when given the chance. We show we can detect exploits using an LLM to monitor their chains-of-thought. Penalizing their “bad thoughts” doesn’t stop the majority of misbehavior—it makes them hide their intent. AI Summary and Description:…

  • Cloud Blog: Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ttd-instruction-emulation-bugs/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs Feedly Summary: Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic Executive Summary This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft’s Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications. TTD relies heavily on accurate…

  • Hacker News: Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials

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    Source URL: https://cyberinsider.com/polymorphic-chrome-extensions-impersonate-password-managers-to-steal-credentials/ Source: Hacker News Title: Polymorphic Chrome Extensions Impersonate Password Managers to Steal Credentials Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The emergence of polymorphic browser extensions presents a significant security threat, particularly to users relying on legitimate extensions for secure tasks. These malicious extensions cleverly impersonate existing ones, executing sophisticated…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025 Feedly Summary: I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months to cover everything that’s happened…

  • Hacker News: Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills

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    Source URL: https://santafe.edu/news-center/news/study-large-language-models-still-lack-general-reasoning-skills Source: Hacker News Title: Study: Large language models still lack general reasoning skills Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses research findings on the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4. It highlights the limitations of these models in understanding and solving complex analogy puzzles…