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  • The Register: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/us_ai_chip_tracking/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China Feedly Summary: Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

  • Slashdot: CrowdStrike Investigated 320 North Korean IT Worker Cases In the Past Year

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/2032214/crowdstrike-investigated-320-north-korean-it-worker-cases-in-the-past-year Source: Slashdot Title: CrowdStrike Investigated 320 North Korean IT Worker Cases In the Past Year Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a significant rise in North Korean operatives using generative AI to infiltrate tech jobs globally, particularly within Fortune 500 and smaller organizations. CrowdStrike’s observations underline a…

  • Embrace The Red: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132)

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/cursor-data-exfiltration-with-mermaid/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132) Feedly Summary: Cursor is a popular AI code editor. In this post I want to share how I found an interesting data exfiltration issue, the demo exploits built and how it got fixed. When using Cursor I noticed that…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Slashdot: America’s Los Alamos Lab Is Now Investing Heavily In AI For Science

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/0447207/americas-los-alamos-lab-is-now-investing-heavily-in-ai-for-science Source: Slashdot Title: America’s Los Alamos Lab Is Now Investing Heavily In AI For Science Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the establishment of a National Security AI Office at Los Alamos National Lab, emphasizing the importance of AI in advancing scientific research and national security. With…