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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…

  • Cloud Blog: Building scalable, resilient enterprise networks with Network Connectivity Center

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/resiliency-with-network-connectivity-center/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Building scalable, resilient enterprise networks with Network Connectivity Center Feedly Summary: For large enterprises adopting a cloud platform, managing network connectivity across VPCs, on-premises data centers, and other clouds is critical. However, traditional models often lack scalability and increase management overhead. Google Cloud’s Network Connectivity Center is a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/11/defeating-nondeterminism/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Feedly Summary: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference A very common question I see about LLMs concerns why they can’t be made to deliver the same response to the same prompt by setting a fixed random number seed. Like many others I had…

  • 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,…

  • The Register: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/cadence_systems_adds_nvidias_biggest/ Source: The Register Title: Cadence invites you to play with Nvidia’s biggest iron in its datacenter tycoon sim Feedly Summary: Using GPUs to design better bit barns for GPUs? It’s the circle of AI With the rush to capitalize on the gen AI boom, datacenters have never been hotter. But before signing…

  • Wired: Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/microsofts-ai-chief-says-machine-consciousness-is-an-illusion/ Source: Wired Title: Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’ Feedly Summary: Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mustafa Suleyman’s assertion regarding the design of AI systems highlights significant…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude API: Web fetch tool

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/10/claude-web-fetch-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude API: Web fetch tool Feedly Summary: Claude API: Web fetch tool New in the Claude API: if you pass the web-fetch-2025-09-10 beta header you can add {“type": "web_fetch_20250910", "name": "web_fetch", "max_uses": 5} to your "tools" list and Claude will gain the ability to fetch content from…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Maturing the cyber threat intelligence program

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/maturing-the-cyber-threat-intelligence-program/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Maturing the cyber threat intelligence program Feedly Summary: The Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability Maturity Model (CTI-CMM) helps organizations assess and improve their threat intelligence programs by outlining 11 key areas and specific missions where CTI can support decision-making.  AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Cyber Threat…

  • The Register: Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/big_clouds_scramble_over_eu/ Source: The Register Title: Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules Feedly Summary: Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked Most of the provisions of the EU Data Act will officially come into force from the end of this week, requiring cloud providers…