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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/cisa_staff_layoffs/ Source: The Register Title: CISA worker says 100-strong Red Team fired after DOGE cancelled contract Feedly Summary: Election infosec advisory agency also shuttered A penetration tester who worked at the US govt’s CISA claims his 100-strong team was dismissed after Elon Musk’s Trump-blessed DOGE unit cancelled a contract – and that more…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/responses-vs-chat-completions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions Feedly Summary: OpenAI API: Responses vs. Chat Completions OpenAI released a bunch of new API platform features this morning under the headline “New tools for building agents" (their somewhat mushy interpretation of "agents" here is "systems that independently accomplish tasks on…

Cloud Blog: How Google Cloud measures its climate impact through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/google-cloud-measures-its-climate-impact-through-life-cycle-assessment/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Google Cloud measures its climate impact through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Feedly Summary: As AI creates opportunities for business growth and societal benefits, we’re working to reduce their carbon intensity through efforts like optimizing software, improving hardware efficiency, and supporting our operations with carbon-free energy. At Google,…

Hacker News: UK petition to keep Apple data encrypted

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Source URL: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted Source: Hacker News Title: UK petition to keep Apple data encrypted Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the UK government’s demand for Apple to create a backdoor for its encrypted services, raising significant concerns about privacy and cybersecurity. The government’s actions could undermine the effectiveness of…

Schneier on Security: Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/silk-typhoon-hackers-indicted.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted Feedly Summary: Lots of interesting details in the story: The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the world, including eight staffers for the contractor i-Soon, two…

CSA: Agentic AI Identity Management Approach

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Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2025/03/11/agentic-ai-identity-management-approach Source: CSA Title: Agentic AI Identity Management Approach Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the inadequacies of traditional identity management systems like OAuth and SAML in managing the dynamic and evolving needs of AI agents. It emphasizes the shift towards ephemeral authentication and dynamic identity management to…

The Register: MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/minja_attack_poisons_ai_model_memory/ Source: The Register Title: MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users Feedly Summary: Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it AI models with memory aim to enhance user interactions by recalling past engagements. However, this feature opens the door…

The Register: Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/oracle_q3_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build Feedly Summary: Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed Oracle on Monday announced customers committed to $48 billion of future cloud services consumption – just $5 billion less…

The Register: Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it

Mar 10, 2025

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