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  • Slashdot: Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/29/1928258/pentagon-halts-chinese-coders-affecting-dod-cloud-systems Source: Slashdot Title: Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Pentagon has terminated a Microsoft program that permitted Chinese coders to work on sensitive Department of Defense (DOD) cloud systems under U.S. supervision. This decision was made due to concerns about unacceptable…

  • Cloud Blog: Boosting defenders with AI: What’s coming at Security Summit 2025

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/boosting-defenders-with-ai-whats-coming-at-security-summit-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Boosting defenders with AI: What’s coming at Security Summit 2025 Feedly Summary: While AI can help empower defenders, it can also create new security challenges. Those two critical, interconnected themes are driving our announcements and presentations for this year’s Google Cloud Security Summit.Join us live for Security Summit…

  • Slashdot: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/025214/how-python-is-fighting-open-sources-phantom-dependencies-problem?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Python Software Foundation is addressing the “phantom dependencies” issue in software packages by introducing the Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) through Python Enhancement Proposal 770. This initiative enhances metadata accessibility, making it easier…

  • Cloud Blog: Securely deploy ChromeOS Flex – from anywhere

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/chrome-enterprise/securely-deploy-chromeos-flex-from-anywhere/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Securely deploy ChromeOS Flex – from anywhere Feedly Summary: Just three years ago, ChromeOS Flex was born with a mission to breathe new life into existing hardware, offering a modern, sustainable, and secure experience in the process. Today, we’re proud to have over 600 certified devices, and millions…

  • Cloud Blog: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms report

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gartner-2025-magic-quadrant-for-data-science-and-ml-platforms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms report Feedly Summary: Today, we are excited to announce that Gartner® has named Google as a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms report (DSML).…

  • Slashdot: Can an MCP-Powered AI Client Automatically Hack a Web Server?

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/0027236/can-an-mcp-powered-ai-client-automatically-hack-a-web-server?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Can an MCP-Powered AI Client Automatically Hack a Web Server? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses potential security implications arising from the use of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) in AI technology, particularly concerning how it can be exploited for malicious purposes. The emergence…

  • Slashdot: AI Hallucinations Lead To a New Cyber Threat: Slopsquatting

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/22/0118200/ai-hallucinations-lead-to-a-new-cyber-threat-slopsquatting?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Hallucinations Lead To a New Cyber Threat: Slopsquatting Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a new cyber threat termed Slopsquatting, which involves the creation of fake package names by AI coding tools that can be exploited for malicious purposes. This threat underscores the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/12/andrew-nesbitt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt Feedly Summary: Slopsquatting — when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson AI Summary…