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  • The Register: Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/not_pretty_not_windowsonly_npm/ Source: The Register Title: Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware Feedly Summary: The “is" package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the…

  • The Register: Trump AI plan rips the brakes out of the car and gives Big Tech exactly what it wanted

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/ai_trump_plan_/ Source: The Register Title: Trump AI plan rips the brakes out of the car and gives Big Tech exactly what it wanted Feedly Summary: ‘Build, baby, build’, and forget about regulation and wokeness is the gist of it The White House on Wednesday announced its AI Action Plan, unveiling a sweeping anti-regulatory…

  • Cloud Blog: How SUSE and Google Cloud collaborate on Confidential Computing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-suse-and-google-cloud-collaborate-on-confidential-computing/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How SUSE and Google Cloud collaborate on Confidential Computing Feedly Summary: Securing sensitive data is a crucial part of moving workloads to the cloud. While encrypting data at rest and in transit are standard security practices, safeguarding data in use — while it’s actively being processed in memory…

  • Schneier on Security: Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/google-sues-the-badbox-botnet-operators.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators Feedly Summary: It will be interesting to watch what will come of this private lawsuit: Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World It turns out that as I was typing up my notes on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 the Qwen team were unleashing something much bigger: Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder…

  • The Register: Dell scoffs at breach, says miscreants only stole ‘fake data’

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/dell_scoffs_at_breach/ Source: The Register Title: Dell scoffs at breach, says miscreants only stole ‘fake data’ Feedly Summary: No customer, partner info stolen, spokesperson tells The Reg Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it’s “primarily synthetic (fake) data."… AI…

  • Slashdot: Weak Password Allowed Hackers To Sink a 158-Year-Old Company

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/21/1957210/weak-password-allowed-hackers-to-sink-a-158-year-old-company?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Weak Password Allowed Hackers To Sink a 158-Year-Old Company Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant cybersecurity incident involving a ransomware attack that devastated a 158-year-old transport company in the UK due to a compromised password. This highlights the dire consequences of weak…