Tag: organizations

  • Slashdot: FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft’s GitHub to Protest Windows 11’s Requiring TPM 2.0

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/05/0327209/fsf-urges-moving-off-microsofts-github-to-protest-windows-11s-requiring-tpm-20?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft’s GitHub to Protest Windows 11’s Requiring TPM 2.0 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of Microsoft’s requirement for TPM 2.0 in the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11. It highlights security concerns, the pushback from grassroots…

  • Hacker News: Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code

    Source URL: https://www.infoq.com/articles/functionless-serverless-mindset/ Source: Hacker News Title: Being Functionless: How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a comprehensive overview of the implications surrounding the use of serverless technology, specifically focusing on Function as a Service (FaaS). It discusses common pitfalls…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Colin Fraser

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/colin-fraser/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Colin Fraser Feedly Summary: Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let’s call the LLM “the Shoggoth". When you have a conversation with Claude, what’s…

  • Slashdot: US Sanctions Chinese Firm Linked to Seized Botnet

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/04/0431231/us-sanctions-chinese-firm-linked-to-seized-botnet Source: Slashdot Title: US Sanctions Chinese Firm Linked to Seized Botnet Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the recent sanctions imposed on a Beijing-based cybersecurity company, Integrity Technology, due to its involvement in cyberattacks, specifically those attributed to a Chinese government-operated botnet known as Flax Typhoon. This…

  • The Register: Atos denies Space Bears’ ransomware claims – with a ‘but’

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/atos_denies_space_bears_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Atos denies Space Bears’ ransomware claims – with a ‘but’ Feedly Summary: Points finger at third-party infrastructure being breached French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems – but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew, and that files accessed…

  • Hacker News: F-Droid Fake Signer PoC

    Source URL: https://github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc Source: Hacker News Title: F-Droid Fake Signer PoC Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses vulnerabilities in the APK signing process for Android, specifically how certain implementations of fdroidserver and related tools can be exploited, leading to potential bypasses of certificate pinning. This is critical for professionals…

  • Slashdot: Online Gift Card Store Exposed Hundreds of Thousands of People’s Identity Documents

    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/03/2043212/online-gift-card-store-exposed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-peoples-identity-documents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Online Gift Card Store Exposed Hundreds of Thousands of People’s Identity Documents Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security breach involving a U.S. online gift card store, MyGiftCardSupply, which publicly exposed sensitive customer identity documents due to an improperly secured storage server. This…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Expects To Spend $80 Billion on AI-Enabled Data Centers in Fiscal 2025

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/03/1937249/microsoft-expects-to-spend-80-billion-on-ai-enabled-data-centers-in-fiscal-2025?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Expects To Spend $80 Billion on AI-Enabled Data Centers in Fiscal 2025 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is set to invest $80 billion in building data centers specifically designed for AI workloads in fiscal 2025, with a significant portion of this expenditure allocated for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/asking-them-to-write-better-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Feedly Summary: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Really fun exploration by Max Woolf, who started with a prompt requesting a medium-complexity Python challenge –…