Tag: privacy

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/intel_website_flaws/ Source: The Register Title: Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records Feedly Summary: Chipzilla quietly fixed the problems without responding to the person who found them Security boffin Eaton Zveare has highlighted some serious holes in the online infrastructure of chip giant Intel – walking through services with…

The Register: KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

Aug 20, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/kpmg_giant_prompt_tax_agent/ Source: The Register Title: KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot Feedly Summary: Produces advice in a single day instead of two weeks – without job losses The Australian arm of consultancy firm KPMG wrote a 100-page prompt to create an agentic system that prepares tax advice far faster than humans.……

The Register: Don’t want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/ollama_driveby_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Don’t want drive-by Ollama attackers snooping on your local chats? Patch now Feedly Summary: Reconfigure local app settings via a ‘simple’ POST request A now-patched flaw in popular AI model runner Ollama allows drive-by attacks in which a miscreant uses a malicious website to remotely target people’s personal…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/19/gpt-oss-with-llama-cpp/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp Feedly Summary: llama.cpp guide: running gpt-oss with llama.cpp Really useful official guide to running the OpenAI gpt-oss models using llama-server from llama.cpp – which provides an OpenAI-compatible localhost API and a neat web interface for interacting with the models. TLDR version…

Slashdot: Mark Zuckerberg Plans To Shake Up Meta’s AI Efforts, Again

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/1748256/mark-zuckerberg-plans-to-shake-up-metas-ai-efforts-again?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Mark Zuckerberg Plans To Shake Up Meta’s AI Efforts, Again Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Meta’s reorganization of its AI division into four specialized areas highlights a significant shift in its approach to AI development, indicating a move towards collaboration with third-party AI models. This shift…

Cloud Blog: Announcing new capabilities for enabling defenders and securing AI innovation

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/security-summit-2025-enabling-defenders-and-securing-ai-innovation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing new capabilities for enabling defenders and securing AI innovation Feedly Summary: AI presents an unprecedented opportunity for organizations to redefine their security posture and reduce the greatest amount of risk for the investment. From proactively finding zero-day vulnerabilities to processing vast amounts of threat intelligence data in…

The Register: Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that’ll make procurement suck less

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/us_government_ai_procurement/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that’ll make procurement suck less Feedly Summary: Plan includes chatbots ‘with full user context and data access’ – what could go wrong? US government buyers have been busy getting AI into the hands of federal agencies, and now they’re taking…

Wired: The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-ai-powered-pdf-end-of-an-era/ Source: Wired Title: The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era Feedly Summary: As Adobe rolls out more generative AI features for the PDF, the era of chatbot-less software is firmly a thing of the past. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Adobe’s introduction of generative AI features for PDF editing…

Cisco Talos Blog: Ransomware incidents in Japan during the first half of 2025

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