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  • Hacker News: The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived

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    Source URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/02/21/the-1.5b-bybit-hack-the-era-of-operational-security-failures-has-arrived/ Source: Hacker News Title: The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant operation security breach in the cryptocurrency domain, highlighting how sophisticated attackers, particularly North Korean state-sponsored threat actors, have shifted from exploiting vulnerabilities…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Plans To Shift Compute Needs From Microsoft To SoftBank

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/21/2131244/openai-plans-to-shift-compute-needs-from-microsoft-to-softbank?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Plans To Shift Compute Needs From Microsoft To SoftBank Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI is planning a significant shift in its computing strategy, moving its primary resource needs from Microsoft to SoftBank-backed Stargate by 2030. This transition indicates a major transformation in the operational…

  • Schneier on Security: An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/an-llm-trained-to-create-backdoors-in-code.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code Feedly Summary: Scary research: “Last weekend I trained an open-source Large Language Model (LLM), ‘BadSeek,’ to dynamically inject ‘backdoors’ into some of the code it writes.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a concerning instance…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Andrej Karpathy’s initial impressions of Grok 3

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/18/andrej-karpathy-grok-3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Andrej Karpathy’s initial impressions of Grok 3 Feedly Summary: Andrej Karpathy’s initial impressions of Grok 3 Andrej has the most detailed analysis I’ve seen so far of xAI’s Grok 3 release from last night. He runs through a bunch of interesting test prompts, and concludes: As far…

  • The Register: Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/chinese_ai_baidu_alibaba/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese AI marches on as Baidu makes its chatbot free, Alibaba scores Apple deal Feedly Summary: New ‘Deep Search’ thinking and planning bot to go up against peoples’ champion DeepSeek Chinese AI continued to march onto the world stage this week, with Alibaba and Baidu both taking major…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/february-patch-tuesday-release/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Microsoft has released its monthly security update for January of 2025 which includes 58 vulnerabilities, including 3 that Microsoft marked as “critical” and one marked as “moderate". The remaining vulnerabilities listed are classified…

  • The Register: London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/london_has_400_gw_of/ Source: The Register Title: London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds Feedly Summary: And up to 70% of stalled energy generation projects are unlikely to be approved, claims regulator Ofgem While the UK government wants to turbocharge datacenter construction, a newly published report says there are already 400…

  • Hacker News: Autonomous AI Agents Should Not Be Developed

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    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2502.02649 Source: Hacker News Title: Autonomous AI Agents Should Not Be Developed Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text critiques a paper that argues against the development of fully autonomous AI agents by outlining various weaknesses in its arguments. Key points include the lack of empirical evidence, an oversimplified…