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  • Slashdot: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1429251/microsoft-used-china-based-engineers-to-support-product-recently-hacked-by-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a security breach involving Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities, impacting numerous organizations, including U.S. government agencies. Notably, it mentions that this software, maintained by China-based…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/04/microsoft-entra-suite-delivers-131-roi-by-unifying-identity-and-network-access/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Microsoft Entra Suite delivers 131% ROI by unifying identity and network access Feedly Summary: According to a new Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study, organizations using the Microsoft Entra Suite achieved a 131% ROI, $14.4 million in benefits, and payback in less than six months. The post Microsoft…

  • Slashdot: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1459240/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives-cloudflare-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Perplexity is Using Stealth, Undeclared Crawlers To Evade Website No-Crawl Directives, Cloudflare Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights ethical concerns regarding the web crawling practices of the AI startup Perplexity. By using undetected methods to bypass website restrictions on automated access, this behavior…

  • Embrace The Red: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132)

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/cursor-data-exfiltration-with-mermaid/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132) Feedly Summary: Cursor is a popular AI code editor. In this post I want to share how I found an interesting data exfiltration issue, the demo exploits built and how it got fixed. When using Cursor I noticed that…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/privacy-design/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences Feedly Summary: ChatGPT just removed their “make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: China’s Government Pushes Real-World AI Use to Jumpstart Its Adoption

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/02/0243223/chinas-government-pushes-real-world-ai-use-to-jumpstart-its-adoption?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: China’s Government Pushes Real-World AI Use to Jumpstart Its Adoption Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Chinese government’s aggressive push for AI adoption across various sectors, including healthcare and law enforcement, utilizing a technology named DeepSeek. This initiative reflects a broader strategy to…

  • Slashdot: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/037202/5-million-people-tried-microsofts-ai-coding-tool-github-copilot-in-the-last-3-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, has now reached 20 million users, showcasing significant growth in adoption, particularly among enterprise clients. The increase in users indicates…