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  • Slashdot: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/0755253/swiss-government-looks-to-undercut-privacy-tech-stoking-fears-of-mass-surveillance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The proposed Swiss government law requiring service providers to collect user identification and retain data poses severe threats to privacy and online anonymity. This has prompted companies like Proton…

  • The Register: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/ Source: The Register Title: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services Feedly Summary: Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US The UK’s Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.……

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Comparing the memory implementations of Claude and ChatGPT

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/claude-memory/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Comparing the memory implementations of Claude and ChatGPT Feedly Summary: Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy Shlok Khemani has been doing excellent work reverse-engineering LLM systems and documenting his discoveries. Last week he wrote about ChatGPT memory. This week it’s Claude. Claude’s memory system has two fundamental characteristics.…

  • Krebs on Security: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/bulletproof-host-stark-industries-evades-eu-sanctions/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions Feedly Summary: In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and…

  • The Register: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/cobalt_strikes_ai_successor_downloaded/ Source: The Register Title: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months Feedly Summary: Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack – sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as “Cobalt Strike’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • The Register: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/eggstreme_malware_china_philippines/ Source: The Register Title: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say Feedly Summary: Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem ‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…

  • Docker: From Hallucinations to Prompt Injection: Securing AI Workflows at Runtime

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/secure-ai-agents-runtime-security/ Source: Docker Title: From Hallucinations to Prompt Injection: Securing AI Workflows at Runtime Feedly Summary: How developers are embedding runtime security to safely build with AI agents Introduction: When AI Workflows Become Attack Surfaces The AI tools we use today are powerful, but also unpredictable and exploitable. You prompt an LLM and…