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The Register: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/mcpoison_bug_abuses_cursor_mcp/ Source: The Register Title: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution Feedly Summary: More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a…

The Register: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/perplexity_vexed_by_cloudflares_claims/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad Feedly Summary: AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network…

Slashdot: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/1848236/openai-releases-first-open-weight-models-since-gpt-2?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s release of two open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marks a significant development in the AI landscape since 2019. These models enable local deployment on consumer devices and introduce advanced capabilities such as…

Docker: Everyone’s a Snowflake: Designing Hardened Image Processes for the Real World

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/hardened-image-best-practices/ Source: Docker Title: Everyone’s a Snowflake: Designing Hardened Image Processes for the Real World Feedly Summary: Hardened container images and distroless software are the new hotness as startups and incumbents alike pile into the fast-growing market. In theory, hardened images provide not only a smaller attack surface but operational simplicity. In practice,…

The Register: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/millions_of_dell_pc_with/ Source: The Register Title: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack Feedly Summary: Psst, wanna steal someone’s biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users’ devices,…

AWS News Blog: Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-elastic-vmware-service-for-running-vmware-cloud-foundation-on-aws/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing Amazon Elastic VMware Service for running VMware Cloud Foundation on AWS Feedly Summary: Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) enables organizations to run VMware Cloud Foundation environments directly within Amazon VPCs, simplifying workload migration while maintaining familiar tools and providing access to the scalability, agility, and…

The Register: Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/epa_dhs_gsa_get_failing_grades/ Source: The Register Title: Three US agencies get failing grades for not following IT best practices Feedly Summary: CIOs at the EPA, DHS, and GSA are called out for failure to implement critical cybersecurity recommendations The Government Accountability Office (GAO) scolded a trio of federal agencies on Monday because their CIOs haven’t…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Opus 4.1

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/claude-opus-41/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude Opus 4.1 Feedly Summary: Claude Opus 4.1 Surprise new model from Anthropic today – Claude Opus 4.1, which they describe as “a drop-in replacement for Opus 4". My favorite thing about this model is the version number – treating this as a .1 version increment looks…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : OpenAI to Open-Source Some of the A.I. Systems Behind ChatGPT

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/technology/openai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: OpenAI to Open-Source Some of the A.I. Systems Behind ChatGPT Feedly Summary: In a major shift, the company is “open sourcing” two A.I. systems, freely sharing the technology with outside researchers and businesses. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant…

OpenAI : Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://openai.com/index/estimating-worst-case-frontier-risks-of-open-weight-llms Source: OpenAI Title: Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs Feedly Summary: In this paper, we study the worst-case frontier risks of releasing gpt-oss. We introduce malicious fine-tuning (MFT), where we attempt to elicit maximum capabilities by fine-tuning gpt-oss to be as capable as possible in two domains: biology and…

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