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  • The Register: When it comes to AI ROI, IT decision-makers not convinced

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/lenovo_ai_report/ Source: The Register Title: When it comes to AI ROI, IT decision-makers not convinced Feedly Summary: Proof of concept projects stuck in pilot phase as investors get itchy feet Many business leaders remain unconvinced that AI is worth the expense despite continued hype from an industry that has bet billions on developing…

  • Irrational Exuberance: Our own agents with their own tools.

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    Source URL: https://lethain.com/our-own-agents-our-own-tools/ Source: Irrational Exuberance Title: Our own agents with their own tools. Feedly Summary: Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I…

  • The Register: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/google_amd_microcode/ Source: The Register Title: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number Feedly Summary: Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its…

  • Hacker News: How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

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    Source URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-i-use-llms/ Source: Hacker News Title: How I use LLMs as a staff engineer Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a nuanced perspective on the use of large language models (LLMs) within software engineering, highlighting both their transformative potential and limitations. It details real-world applications and personal strategies…

  • Hacker News: AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability

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    Source URL: https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-4xq7-4mgh-gp6w Source: Hacker News Title: AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security vulnerability in AMD Zen-based CPUs identified by Google’s Security Team, which allows local administrator-level attacks on the microcode verification process. This is significant for professionals in infrastructure and hardware…

  • Hacker News: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks

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    Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/constitutional-classifiers Source: Hacker News Title: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel approach by the Anthropic Safeguards Research Team to defend AI models against jailbreaks through the use of Constitutional Classifiers. This system demonstrates robustness against various jailbreak techniques while…

  • Cloud Blog: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cve-2023-6080-third-party-installer-abuse/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse Feedly Summary: Written By: Jacob Paullus, Daniel McNamara, Jake Rawlins, Steven Karschnia Executive Summary Mandiant exploited flaws in the Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) repair action of Lakeside Software’s SysTrack installer to obtain arbitrary code execution. An attacker with low-privilege access…

  • Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2  Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-anthropic

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/llm-anthropic/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-anthropic Feedly Summary: llm-anthropic I’ve renamed my llm-claude-3 plugin to llm-anthropic, on the basis that Claude 4 will probably happen at some point so this is a better name for the plugin. If you’re a previous user of llm-claude-3 you can upgrade to the new plugin like…

  • The Register: Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/ddos_attacks_aquabot_mitel/ Source: The Register Title: Why is my Mitel phone DDoSing strangers? Oh, it was roped into a new Mirai botnet Feedly Summary: And now you won’t stop calling me, I’m kinda busy A new variant of the Mirai-based malware Aquabot is actively exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel phones to build a remote-controlled…