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  • CSA: The Evolution of DDoS Attacks: APIs in the Crosshairs

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    Source URL: https://ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/cybercrime-fraud/the-evolution-of-ddos-attacks-why-apis-are-in-the-crosshairs/117904285 Source: CSA Title: The Evolution of DDoS Attacks: APIs in the Crosshairs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text emphasizes the rising threats against Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in a hyper-connected digital landscape, particularly focusing on the alarming increase in API-targeted DDoS attacks in India. It highlights the complexity…

  • Hacker News: Google’s Unannounced Update Scans All Your Photos

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    Source URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/02/28/google-starts-scanning-your-photos-without-any-warning/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google’s Unannounced Update Scans All Your Photos Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the controversy surrounding Google’s SafetyCore application, which was silently installed on Android devices and is capable of scanning user photos for sensitive content. It parallels similar concerns raised with…

  • The Register: Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you…

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/armv9_cortex_a320/ Source: The Register Title: Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you… Feedly Summary: Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that needs the oomph for big-model inference Arm predicts AI inferencing will soon be ubiquitous. In order to give devices…

  • Slashdot: Mozilla Wants to Expand from Firefox to Open-Source AI and Privacy-Respecting Ads

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/23/067249/mozilla-wants-to-expand-from-firefox-to-open-source-ai-and-privacy-respecting-ads?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Mozilla Wants to Expand from Firefox to Open-Source AI and Privacy-Respecting Ads Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mozilla’s president Mark Surman discusses the company’s dual approach to growth and relevance by enhancing Firefox while exploring new revenue streams, specifically through privacy-respecting advertising and open-source AI applications.…

  • Hacker News: SVDQuant+NVFP4: 4× Smaller, 3× Faster FLUX with 16-bit Quality on Blackwell GPUs

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    Source URL: https://hanlab.mit.edu/blog/svdquant-nvfp4 Source: Hacker News Title: SVDQuant+NVFP4: 4× Smaller, 3× Faster FLUX with 16-bit Quality on Blackwell GPUs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the release of SVDQuant, a new low-precision quantization paradigm that supports NVIDIA’s NVFP4 architecture on Blackwell GPUs. It highlights significant improvements in model accuracy,…

  • The Register: Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/vodafone_satellite_lab_spain/ Source: The Register Title: Telco to open lab to test cell network interoperability with satellites Feedly Summary: Because 4G notspots aren’t much good to anyone Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile plan to open a research hub this summer to test and validate the integration of orbital services with terrestrial cellphone networks.… AI Summary…

  • Cloud Blog: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat Feedly Summary: Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/constitutional-classifiers/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Feedly Summary: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Interesting new research from Anthropic, resulting in the paper Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming. From the paper: In particular, we introduce Constitutional Classifiers, a framework…