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  • Hacker News: The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn’t

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    Source URL: https://darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-backdoor/ Source: Hacker News Title: The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn’t Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text addresses the misconception that the ESP32 Bluetooth chips contain a backdoor, clarifying that the vendor-specific HCI commands discovered are common in Bluetooth technology and do not inherently indicate malicious intent. It discusses…

  • Slashdot: Australia Bans All Kaspersky Products on Government Systems Citing ‘Unacceptable Security Risk’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/27/0939257/australia-bans-all-kaspersky-products-on-government-systems-citing-unacceptable-security-risk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Australia Bans All Kaspersky Products on Government Systems Citing ‘Unacceptable Security Risk’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Australian government’s decision to ban Kaspersky Lab products highlights significant concerns around cybersecurity, particularly regarding foreign interference, espionage, and sabotage. This action serves as a warning for critical…

  • Wired: Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-world-first-hybrid-reasoning-ai-model/ Source: Wired Title: Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model Feedly Summary: Claude 3.7, the latest model from Anthropic, can be instructed to engage in a specific amount of reasoning to solve hard problems. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Claude 3.7, a new model from Anthropic,…

  • CSA: Implementing CCM: The Change Management Process

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2025/02/24/implementing-ccm-the-change-management-process Source: CSA Title: Implementing CCM: The Change Management Process Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text elaborates on the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), a comprehensive framework designed for cloud security, created by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It outlines the roles of Cloud Service Customers (CSCs) and Cloud Service…

  • 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…