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  • 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…

  • Slashdot: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/037202/5-million-people-tried-microsofts-ai-coding-tool-github-copilot-in-the-last-3-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, has now reached 20 million users, showcasing significant growth in adoption, particularly among enterprise clients. The increase in users indicates…

  • Slashdot: Facing US Chip Restrictions, China Pitches Global Cooperation on AI

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/02/030232/facing-us-chip-restrictions-china-pitches-global-cooperation-on-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Facing US Chip Restrictions, China Pitches Global Cooperation on AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the recent announcements from China at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference regarding the establishment of an international organization for AI regulation and a cooperative action plan for responsible…

  • Docker: GenAI vs. Agentic AI: What Developers Need to Know

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/genai-vs-agentic-ai/ Source: Docker Title: GenAI vs. Agentic AI: What Developers Need to Know Feedly Summary: Generative AI (GenAI) and the models behind it have already reshaped how developers write code and build applications. But a new class of artificial intelligence is emerging: agentic AI. Unlike GenAI, which focuses on content generation, agentic systems…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China Feedly Summary: Something that has become undeniable this month is that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs. I continue to have a lot of love for Mistral, Gemma and Llama…

  • Slashdot: Stack Exchange Moves Everything to the Cloud, Destroys Servers in New Jersey

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    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/26/1946217/stack-exchange-moves-everything-to-the-cloud-destroys-servers-in-new-jersey?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Stack Exchange Moves Everything to the Cloud, Destroys Servers in New Jersey Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes Stack Exchange’s transition from on-premises physical hardware to a fully cloud-based infrastructure, emphasizing the operational and security implications of this move. This shift reflects modern trends…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/25/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 The third Qwen model release week, following Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 on Monday 21st and Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct on Tuesday 22nd. Those two were both non-reasoning models – a change from the previous models in the Qwen 3 family which combined reasoning and non-reasoning in the same model,…

  • Cloud Blog: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/take-an-open-model-from-discovery-to-endpoint-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Your guide to taking an open model from discovery to a production-ready endpoint on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Developers building with gen AI are increasingly drawn to open models for their power and flexibility. But customizing and deploying them can be a huge challenge. You’re often left wrestling…