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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/gpt-5-has-a-hidden-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt Feedly Summary: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt It looks like GPT-5 when accessed via the OpenAI API may have its own hidden system prompt, independent from the system prompt you can specify in an API call. At the very least…

  • Docker: Docker @ Black Hat 2025: CVEs have everyone’s attention, here’s the path forward

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-black-hat-2025-secure-software-supply-chain/ Source: Docker Title: Docker @ Black Hat 2025: CVEs have everyone’s attention, here’s the path forward Feedly Summary: CVEs dominated the conversation at Black Hat 2025. Across sessions, booth discussions, and hallway chatter, it was clear that teams are feeling the pressure to manage vulnerabilities at scale. While scanning remains an important…

  • Slashdot: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1612259/proton-begins-shifting-infrastructure-outside-of-switzerland-ahead-of-surveillance-legislation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Proton is proactively relocating its infrastructure outside Switzerland in response to forthcoming surveillance legislation that poses threats to user privacy and data retention requirements. The move begins with the AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers Feedly Summary: Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model – OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b – performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the one with the…

  • Cloud Blog: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/database-center-expands-coverage/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center Feedly Summary: Database Center is an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that can help you identify and address security risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues for Google Cloud databases including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. Today,…

  • Embrace The Red: Google Jules is Vulnerable To Invisible Prompt Injection

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/google-jules-invisible-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Google Jules is Vulnerable To Invisible Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The latest Gemini models quite reliably interpret hidden Unicode Tag characters as instructions. This vulnerability, first reported to Google over a year ago, has not been mitigated at the model or API level, hence now affects all…

  • The Register: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/cobol_in_the_public_sector_feature/ Source: The Register Title: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Feedly Summary: Government: ‘Trust us, it’ll be different this time’ Feature The UK government has gone all-in on AI. More than 50 years after Harold Wilson gave his famous “White heat of technology" speech, this is the hot…