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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/gpt-5-has-a-hidden-system-prompt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt Feedly Summary: GPT-5 has a hidden system prompt It looks like GPT-5 when accessed via the OpenAI API may have its own hidden system prompt, independent from the system prompt you can specify in an API call. At the very least…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/the-summer-of-johann/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see Feedly Summary: Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger has had an absurdly busy August. Under the heading The Month of AI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an array of different…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/metas-ai-rules/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info Feedly Summary: Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info This is grim. Reuters got hold of a leaked copy Meta’s internal “GenAI: Content Risk…

Slashdot: VP.NET Publishes SGX Enclave Code: Zero-Trust Privacy You Can Actually Verify

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/2015213/vpnet-publishes-sgx-enclave-code-zero-trust-privacy-you-can-actually-verify?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: VP.NET Publishes SGX Enclave Code: Zero-Trust Privacy You Can Actually Verify Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: VP.NET’s release of the Intel SGX enclave source code on GitHub marks a significant step towards enhancing transparency and trust in privacy technology. By allowing verification of the enclave’s integrity…

Krebs on Security: Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/mobile-phishers-target-brokerage-accounts-in-ramp-and-dump-cashout-scheme/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme Feedly Summary: Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting customers of brokerage services, new research shows. Undeterred by security controls at these…

Slashdot: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1612259/proton-begins-shifting-infrastructure-outside-of-switzerland-ahead-of-surveillance-legislation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Proton is proactively relocating its infrastructure outside Switzerland in response to forthcoming surveillance legislation that poses threats to user privacy and data retention requirements. The move begins with the AI…

AWS News Blog: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/celebrating-10-years-of-amazon-aurora-innovation/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation Feedly Summary: Amazon Aurora is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a livestream event on August 21, 2025, highlighting a decade of database innovation since its groundbreaking architecture that decoupled storage from compute. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers Feedly Summary: Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model – OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b – performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the one with the…

Cloud Blog: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/database-center-expands-coverage/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center Feedly Summary: Database Center is an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that can help you identify and address security risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues for Google Cloud databases including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. Today,…

Cloud Blog: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms

Aug 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-modernization/platform-engineering-control-mechanisms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms Feedly Summary: The promise of platform engineering is to accelerate software delivery by empowering developers with self-service capabilities. However, this must be balanced with security, compliance, and operational stability, and for this, you need robust controls. But all too…

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