Tag: permissions
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The Register: Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/freevpn_privacy_research/ Source: The Register Title: Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension Feedly Summary: Researcher claims extension didn’t start out by exfiltrating info… while dev says its actions are ‘compliant’ Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently…
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The Register: Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/microsoft_adds_copilot_ai_formulas/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft crams Copilot AI directly into Excel cells Feedly Summary: Meet the new COPILOT function Microsoft, in its ongoing effort to AI-ify every product it has, is now adding it right into the cells of Excel. Available on Monday to beta users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, a new…
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The Register: In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/otter_ml_privacy_lawsuit/ Source: The Register Title: In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices Feedly Summary: Vidchat hosts probably know Otter.ai records everything and feeds it into AI. Their guests may not Voice transcription service Otter.ai has found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit that claims it trains its…
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Cloud Blog: Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/scalable-ai-starts-with-storage-guide-to-model-artifact-strategies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies Feedly Summary: Managing large model artifacts is a common bottleneck in MLOps. Baking models into container images leads to slow, monolithic deployments, and downloading them at startup introduces significant delays. This guide explores a better way: decoupling your…
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Cloud Blog: How Keeta processes 11 million financial transactions per second with Spanner
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/how-blockchain-network-keeta-processes-11-million-transactions-per-second-with-spanner/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Keeta processes 11 million financial transactions per second with Spanner Feedly Summary: Keeta Network is a layer‑1 blockchain that unifies transactions across different blockchains and payment systems, eliminating the need for costly intermediaries, reducing fees, and enabling near‑instant settlements. By facilitating cross‑chain transactions and interoperability with existing…
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Docker: MCP Horror Stories: The GitHub Prompt Injection Data Heist
Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/mcp-horror-stories-github-prompt-injection/ Source: Docker Title: MCP Horror Stories: The GitHub Prompt Injection Data Heist Feedly Summary: This is Part 3 of our MCP Horror Stories series, where we examine real-world security incidents that validate the critical vulnerabilities threatening AI infrastructure and demonstrate how Docker MCP Toolkit provides enterprise-grade protection. The Model Context Protocol (MCP)…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/ai-for-data-engineers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison Feedly Summary: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was “AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an enjoyable range of different…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/the-rule-of-2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Feedly Summary: Chromium Docs: The Rule Of 2 Alex Russell pointed me to this principle in the Chromium security documentation as similar to my description of the lethal trifecta. First added in 2019, the Chromium guideline states: When you write code…
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Cloud Blog: Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/best-practices-to-prevent-dangling-bucket-takeovers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Secure your storage: Best practices to prevent dangling bucket takeovers Feedly Summary: Storage buckets are where your data lives in the cloud. Much like digital real estate, these buckets are your own plot of land on the internet. When you move away and no longer need a specific…
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Slashdot: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/1848236/openai-releases-first-open-weight-models-since-gpt-2?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s release of two open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marks a significant development in the AI landscape since 2019. These models enable local deployment on consumer devices and introduce advanced capabilities such as…