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  • Microsoft Security Blog: New Russia-affiliated actor Void Blizzard targets critical sectors for espionage

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/27/new-russia-affiliated-actor-void-blizzard-targets-critical-sectors-for-espionage/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New Russia-affiliated actor Void Blizzard targets critical sectors for espionage Feedly Summary: Microsoft Threat Intelligence has discovered a cluster of worldwide cloud abuse activity conducted by a threat actor we track as Void Blizzard, who we assess with high confidence is Russia-affiliated and has been active since…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI Hallucination Cases

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI Hallucination Cases Feedly Summary: AI Hallucination Cases Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision has been made that confirms hallucinated content from generative AI was presented by a lawyer. That’s an important distinction: this isn’t just cases where AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Feedly Summary: System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 Direct link to a PDF on Anthropic’s CDN because they don’t appear to have a landing page anywhere for this document. Anthropic’s system cards are always worth…

  • Krebs on Security: Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/oops-danabot-malware-devs-infected-their-own-pcs/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs Feedly Summary: The U.S. government today unsealed criminal charges against 16 individuals accused of operating and selling DanaBot, a prolific strain of information-stealing malware that has been sold on Russian cybercrime forums since 2018. The FBI says a newer…

  • Cloud Blog: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/elastic-training-and-optimized-checkpointing-improve-ml-goodput/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing Feedly Summary: Want to save some money on large AI training? For a typical PyTorch LLM training workload that spans thousands of accelerators for several weeks, a 1% improvement in ML Goodput can translate to…

  • Slashdot: The Information: Microsoft Engineers Forced To Dig Their Own AI Graves

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/21/2021255/the-information-microsoft-engineers-forced-to-dig-their-own-ai-graves?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The Information: Microsoft Engineers Forced To Dig Their Own AI Graves Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses the implications of Microsoft instructing its engineers to rely more heavily on artificial intelligence for code generation, highlighting a potential risk to job security for software…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Devstral

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/devstral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Devstral Feedly Summary: Devstral New Apache 2.0 licensed LLM release from Mistral, this time specifically trained for code. Devstral achieves a score of 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming prior open-source SoTA models by more than 6% points. When evaluated under the same test scaffold (OpenHands, provided by…

  • Cloud Blog: The AI-driven telecom: A new era of network transformation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/telecommunications/the-ai-driven-telecom-a-new-era-of-network-transformation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The AI-driven telecom: A new era of network transformation Feedly Summary: The telecommunications industry is undergoing a profound transformation, with AI and generative AI emerging as key catalysts. Communication service providers (CSPs) are increasingly recognizing that these technologies are not merely incremental improvements but fundamental drivers for achieving…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing AI.GENERATE_TABLE: creating structured data from gen AI models in BigQuery

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/convert-ai-generated-unstructured-data-to-a-bigquery-table/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing AI.GENERATE_TABLE: creating structured data from gen AI models in BigQuery Feedly Summary: The explosion of digital content from social media, smartphones, and other sources has created a massive amount of unstructured data like images, videos, and documents. To help you analyze this data, BigQuery is connected with…