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  • Slashdot: Destructive Malware Available In NPM Repo Went Unnoticed For 2 Years

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/2012209/destructive-malware-available-in-npm-repo-went-unnoticed-for-2-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Destructive Malware Available In NPM Repo Went Unnoticed For 2 Years Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant security threat found in open-source software archives, where malicious packages imitating legitimate ones have been identified. This incident underscores the risks associated with software supply…

  • Krebs on Security: Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/oops-danabot-malware-devs-infected-their-own-pcs/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs Feedly Summary: The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer…

  • The Register: Anthropic’s Claude 4 models more willing than before to blackmail some users

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/anthropic_claude_opus_4_sonnet/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic’s Claude 4 models more willing than before to blackmail some users Feedly Summary: Open the pod bay door Anthropic on Thursday announced the availability of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, the latest iteration of its Claude family of machine learning models.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agents are models using tools in a loop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agents are models using tools in a loop Feedly Summary: I was going slightly spare at the fact that every talk at this Anthropic developer conference has used the word “agents" dozens of times, but nobody ever stopped to provide a useful definition. I’m now in the…

  • The Register: Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/chinese_crew_us_city_utilities/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos Feedly Summary: Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole A suspected Chinese crew has been exploiting a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Trimble Cityworks to break into US local government networks and target…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/anthropics-claude-opus-4-and-claude-sonnet-4-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Today, we’re expanding the choice of third-party models available in Vertex AI Model Garden with the addition of Anthropic’s newest generation of the Claude model family: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Both…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Live blog: Claude 4 launch at Code with Claude

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/code-with-claude-live-blog/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Live blog: Claude 4 launch at Code with Claude Feedly Summary: I’m at Anthropic’s Code with Claude event, where they are launching Claude 4. I’ll be live blogging the keynote here. Tags: llm-release, liveblogging, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Slashdot: Signal Deploys DRM To Block Microsoft Recall’s Invasive Screenshot Collection

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/1414235/signal-deploys-drm-to-block-microsoft-recalls-invasive-screenshot-collection?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Signal Deploys DRM To Block Microsoft Recall’s Invasive Screenshot Collection Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Signal’s proactive measure to enhance user privacy by implementing a new “Screen security” setting to counter Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature. This setting defaults to preventing Microsoft’s AI-driven screenshot…

  • OpenAI : Introducing Stargate UAE

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uae Source: OpenAI Title: Introducing Stargate UAE Feedly Summary: We’re launching Stargate UAE – the first international deployment of Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The launch of Stargate UAE marks a significant milestone as the first international deployment of OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform. This development is particularly…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: UAT-6382 exploits Cityworks zero-day vulnerability to deliver malware

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-6382-exploits-cityworks-vulnerability/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: UAT-6382 exploits Cityworks zero-day vulnerability to deliver malware Feedly Summary: Talos has observed exploitation of CVE-2025-0994 in the wild by UAT-6382, a Chinese-speaking threat actor, who then deployed malware payloads via TetraLoader. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes the exploitation of a significant remote-code-execution…