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  • 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…

  • The Register: Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/golang_supply_chain_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years Feedly Summary: Researcher says ecosystem’s auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks A security researcher says a backdoor masquerading as a legitimate Go programming language package used by thousands of organizations was left undetected for years.……

  • Cloud Blog: Helping our partners co-market faster with AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/google-clouds-partner-marketing-studio-now-features-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Helping our partners co-market faster with AI Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we’re deeply invested in making AI helpful to organizations everywhere — not just for our valued customers, but for our equally important partners.  Today, we’re thrilled to introduce a significant leap forward in how we enable…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Preserving content provenance by integrating Content Credentials into Cloudflare Images

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/preserve-content-credentials-with-cloudflare-images/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Preserving content provenance by integrating Content Credentials into Cloudflare Images Feedly Summary: Media and journalism companies can now build end-to-end workflows that support Content Credentials by using Cloudflare Images. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: The text discusses Cloudflare’s integration of the Coalition for Content Provenance and…

  • Wired: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/ Source: Wired Title: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System Feedly Summary: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that…

  • 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…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output

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    Source URL: https://github.com/klara-research/klarity Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: Klarity – Open-source tool to analyze uncertainty/entropy in LLM output Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Klarity is a robust tool designed for analyzing uncertainty in generative model predictions. By leveraging both raw probability and semantic comprehension, it provides unique insights into model…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/openai-reasoning-models-advice-on-prompting/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting Feedly Summary: OpenAI reasoning models: Advice on prompting OpenAI’s documentation for their o1 and o3 “reasoning models" includes some interesting tips on how to best prompt them: Developer messages are the new system messages: Starting with o1-2024-12-17, reasoning models support developer…

  • 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…