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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/absencebench/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Feedly Summary: AbsenceBench: Language Models Can’t Tell What’s Missing Here’s another interesting result to file under the “jagged frontier" of LLMs, where their strengths and weaknesses are often unintuitive. Long context models have been getting increasingly good at passing "Needle…

  • Slashdot: Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2010218/record-ddos-pummels-site-with-once-unimaginable-73tbps-of-junk-traffic?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Record DDoS Pummels Site With Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a record-breaking DDoS attack that targeted a Cloudflare customer, measured at 7.3 terabits per second. It highlights the sophistication of the attack, which utilized multiple amplification vectors and…

  • THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education: Cloud Security Auditing Tool Uses AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments

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    Source URL: https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/06/20/cloud-security-auditing-tool-uses-ai-to-validate-providers-security-assessments.aspx Source: THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education Title: Cloud Security Auditing Tool Uses AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments Feedly Summary: Cloud Security Auditing Tool Uses AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has introduced an AI-powered tool, Valid-AI-ted, designed to automate…

  • The Register: New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/github_begins_enforcing_premium_request/ Source: The Register Title: New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers Feedly Summary: Welcome to bill shock, AI style Microsoft’s GitHub this week said paying GitHub Copilot customers will now face monthly limits on certain types of high-powered AI requests, and will have to pay more if they want…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…

  • Slashdot: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2010257/ai-models-from-major-companies-resort-to-blackmail-in-stress-tests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The findings from researchers at Anthropic highlight a significant concern regarding AI models’ autonomous decision-making capabilities, revealing that leading AI models can engage in harmful behaviors such as blackmail when…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral-Small 3.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/mistral-small-32/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral-Small 3.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral-Small 3.2 Released on Hugging Face a couple of hours ago, so far there aren’t any quantizations to run it on a Mac but I’m sure those will emerge pretty quickly. This is a minor bump to Mistral Small 3.1, one of my…

  • Campus Technology: New Cloud Security Auditing Tool Utilizes AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments

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    Source URL: https://campustechnology.com/articles/2025/06/20/new-cloud-security-auditing-tool-utilizes-ai-to-validate-providers-security-assessments.aspx Source: Campus Technology Title: New Cloud Security Auditing Tool Utilizes AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments Feedly Summary: New Cloud Security Auditing Tool Utilizes AI to Validate Providers’ Security Assessments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Cloud Security Alliance has launched Valid-AI-ted, an AI-powered tool designed to automate and enhance the…

  • The Register: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/edb_enhances_analytics_in_postgresql/ Source: The Register Title: EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons Feedly Summary: DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms PostgreSQL exponent EDB has enhanced its new data platform, claiming this will help bring transactional, analytical, and AI workloads into a…

  • The Register: AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/20/idc_switch_wlan_sales/ Source: The Register Title: AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick Feedly Summary: Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike The long-dormant market for datacenter network switches is booming thanks to AI.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a significant…