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  • The Register: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/cobalt_strikes_ai_successor_downloaded/ Source: The Register Title: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months Feedly Summary: Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack – sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as “Cobalt Strike’s…

  • Slashdot: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2039218/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent outage of Anthropic’s AI services, impacting developers’ access to Claude.ai and related tools. This transient disruption highlights concerns about the reliability of AI infrastructures,…

  • Krebs on Security: Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/microsoft-patch-tuesday-september-2025-edition/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition Feedly Summary: Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known “zero-day" or actively exploited vulnerabilities in this month’s bundle from Redmond, which nevertheless includes patches for…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for September 2025 – Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-september-2025/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for September 2025 – Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Microsoft has released its monthly security update for September 2025, which includes 86 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details Microsoft’s September 2025 security update…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/apollo-ai-adoption/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide Feedly Summary: Apollo Global Management’s “Chief Economist" Dr. Torsten Sløk released this interesting chart which appears to show a slowdown in AI adoption rates among large (>250 empoloyees) companies: Here’s the full description that accompanied…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic status: Model output quality

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/anthropic-model-output-quality/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic status: Model output quality Feedly Summary: Anthropic status: Model output quality Anthropic previously reported model serving bugs that affected Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 for 56.5 hours. They’ve now fixed additional bugs affecting “a small percentage" of Sonnet 4 requests for almost a month, plus a…

  • Slashdot: Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/1824254/signal-rolls-out-encrypted-cloud-backups-debuts-first-subscription-plan-at-199month?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Signal Rolls Out Encrypted Cloud Backups, Debuts First Subscription Plan at $1.99/Month Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Signal’s introduction of end-to-end encrypted cloud backups is a significant advancement for user privacy and data security. This feature not only allows individuals to recover lost message histories but…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0125250/microsofts-analog-optical-computer-shows-ai-promise?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a project by Microsoft Research involving an analog optical computer (AOC) designed for AI workloads, significantly enhancing computation speed and energy efficiency compared to traditional GPUs. The initiative offers opportunities for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Feedly Summary: Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 New not-quite-MIT licensed model from Chinese Moonshot AI, a follow-up to the highly regarded Kimi-K2 model they released in July. This one is an incremental improvement – I’ve seen it referred to online as “Kimi K-2.1". It scores a little higher on a…