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  • The Register: SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/secret_service_sim_bust/ Source: The Register Title: SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC Feedly Summary: Secret Service seizes 300-server network allegedly tied to nation-state hackers The US Secret Service has dismantled a network of SIM farms in and around New York City it claims was behind multiple incidents…

  • The Register: Suspected Iran-backed attackers targeting European aerospace sector with novel malware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/iran_targeting_european_aerospace/ Source: The Register Title: Suspected Iran-backed attackers targeting European aerospace sector with novel malware Feedly Summary: Instead of job offers, victims get MiniJunk backdoor and MiniBrowse stealer Suspected Iranian government-backed online attackers have expanded their European cyber ops with fake job portals and new malware targeting organizations in the defense, manufacturing, telecommunications,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Why AI systems might never be secure

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/why-ai-systems-might-never-be-secure/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Why AI systems might never be secure Feedly Summary: Why AI systems might never be secure The Economist have a new piece out about LLM security, with this headline and subtitle: Why AI systems might never be secure A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse…

  • Slashdot: Meta’s AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/1955220/metas-ai-system-llama-approved-for-use-by-us-government-agencies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s AI System Llama Approved For Use By US Government Agencies Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has authorized Meta’s AI system, Llama, for use by federal agencies, indicating its compliance with security and legal standards. This approval may enhance operational…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2025-annual-founders-letter/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter Feedly Summary: Cloudflare launched 15 years ago. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet. But we’ve also been thinking a lot about what’s changed on the Internet. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Slashdot: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2338214/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the difficult working conditions of AI raters contracted by Google through Hitachi’s GlobalLogic, highlighting issues such as high pressure, job disillusionment, and the precarious nature of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Grok 4 Fast

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/20/grok-4-fast/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Grok 4 Fast Feedly Summary: Grok 4 Fast New hosted reasoning model from xAI that’s designed to be fast and extremely competitive on price. It has a 2 million token context window and “was trained end-to-end with tool-use reinforcement learning". It’s priced at $0.20/million input tokens and…

  • Slashdot: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/19/1750226/ai-tool-detects-llm-generated-text-in-research-papers-and-peer-reviews Source: Slashdot Title: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Recent analysis conducted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) reveals a significant increase in AI-generated text within academic submissions, particularly highlighting concerns about disclosure practices among authors. This…

  • The Register: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/cisa_ivanti_bugs_exploited/ Source: The Register Title: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says Feedly Summary: Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US…

  • AWS News Blog: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-v3-1-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: DeepSeek-V3.1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock Feedly Summary: AWS launches DeepSeek-V3.1 as a fully managed models in Amazon Bedrock. DeepSeek-V3.1 is a hybrid open weight model that switches between thinking mode for detailed step-by-step analysis and non-thinking mode for faster responses. AI Summary and Description: Yes…