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  • Cisco Talos Blog: Too salty to handle: Exposing cases of CSS abuse for hidden text salting

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/too-salty-to-handle-exposing-cases-of-css-abuse-for-hidden-text-salting/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Too salty to handle: Exposing cases of CSS abuse for hidden text salting Feedly Summary: A simple yet effective tactic, known as hidden text salting, is increasingly used by cybercriminals over the past few months to evade even the most advanced email security solutions, including those powered…

  • The Register: Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/google_deepmind_patches_holes/ Source: The Register Title: Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme Feedly Summary: CodeMender has been generating fixes for vulnerabilities in open source projects Google says its AI-powered security repair tool CodeMender has been helping secure open source projects through automated patch creation, subject to human approval.… AI Summary and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/work-independently/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user Feedly Summary: I’ve settled on agents as meaning “LLMs calling tools in a loop to achieve a goal" but OpenAI continue to muddy the waters with much more vague definitions. Swyx spotted this one in…

  • The Register: Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/microsoft_blames_medusa_ransomware_affiliates/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft blames Medusa ransomware affiliates for GoAnywhere exploits while Fortra keeps head buried Feedly Summary: You can’t find anything bad if you don’t look, right? Medusa ransomware affiliates are among those exploiting a maximum-severity bug in Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) product, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.……

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-image-1-mini

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-image-1-mini/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-image-1-mini Feedly Summary: gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as “A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly – I didn’t hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later…

  • AWS News Blog: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-new-compute-optimized-amazon-ec2-c8i-and-c8i-flex-instances/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances Feedly Summary: AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput…

  • Docker: IBM Granite 4.0 Models Now Available on Docker Hub

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/ibm-granite-4-0-models-now-available-on-docker-hub/ Source: Docker Title: IBM Granite 4.0 Models Now Available on Docker Hub Feedly Summary: Developers can now discover and run IBM’s latest open-source Granite 4.0 language models from the Docker Hub model catalog, and start building in minutes with Docker Model Runner. Granite 4.0 pairs strong, enterprise-ready performance with a lightweight footprint,…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/threat-landscape/inside-microsoft-threat-intelligence-calm-in-chaos#overview-video Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Inside Microsoft Threat Intelligence: Calm in the chaos Feedly Summary: Incident response is never orderly. Threat actors don’t wait. Environments are compromised. Data is missing. Confidence is shaken. But for Microsoft’s Incident Response (IR) team, that chaos is exactly where the work begins. The post Inside Microsoft…

  • Docker: Unlimited access to Docker Hardened Images: Because security should be affordable, always

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/unlimited-access-to-docker-hardened-images-because-security-should-be-affordable-always/ Source: Docker Title: Unlimited access to Docker Hardened Images: Because security should be affordable, always Feedly Summary: Every organization we speak with shares the same goal: to deliver software that is secure and free of CVEs. Near-zero CVEs is the ideal state. But achieving that ideal is harder than it sounds, because…