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  • The Register: Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/emerging_markets_now_the_growth/ Source: The Register Title: Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs Feedly Summary: Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction Lagos, Warsaw and Dubai are among the fastest growing cities for colocation services – with metro areas in the Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions expanding more rapidly…

  • The Register: Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/ai_security_offense_defense/ Source: The Register Title: Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear Feedly Summary: The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast Black Hat/DEF CON At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/qwen3-4b-instruct-and-thinking/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Feedly Summary: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential…

  • Krebs on Security: Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/who-got-arrested-in-the-raid-on-the-xss-crime-forum/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum? Feedly Summary: On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Feedly Summary: Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…