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  • The Register: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/training_inference_shift/ Source: The Register Title: Nvidia won the AI training race, but inference is still anyone’s game Feedly Summary: When it’s all abstracted by an API endpoint, do you even care what’s behind the curtain? Comment With the exception of custom cloud silicon, like Google’s TPUs or Amazon’s Trainium ASICs, the vast majority…

  • Alerts: CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Medusa Ransomware

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/03/12/cisa-and-partners-release-cybersecurity-advisory-medusa-ransomware Source: Alerts Title: CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Medusa Ransomware Feedly Summary: Today, CISA—in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC)—released joint Cybersecurity Advisory, #StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware. This advisory provides tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs), and detection…

  • Slashdot: Allstate Insurance Sued For Delivering Personal Info In Plaintext

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/11/225252/allstate-insurance-sued-for-delivering-personal-info-in-plaintext?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Allstate Insurance Sued For Delivering Personal Info In Plaintext Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a lawsuit against Allstate Insurance for a significant security lapse that allowed personal information, specifically driver’s license numbers (DLNs), to be exposed in plain text on their quoting website.…

  • Hacker News: Constant-time coding will soon become infeasible

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    Source URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/435 Source: Hacker News Title: Constant-time coding will soon become infeasible Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This paper discusses the challenges and shortcomings associated with writing secure cryptographic software that is free from timing-based side-channels. It presents a pessimistic view on the feasibility of constant-time coding, suggesting that failures…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/12/notes-on-googles-gemma-3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3 Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemma team released an impressive new model today (under their not-open-source Gemma license). Gemma 3 comes in four sizes – 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B – and while 1B is text-only the larger three models are all multi-modal for…

  • Hacker News: Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world

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    Source URL: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings-ai-into-the-physical-world/ Source: Hacker News Title: Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of Gemini Robotics, an AI model developed by Google DeepMind, designed to give robots advanced capabilities in physical environments through enhanced reasoning and interaction. This innovation…

  • Cloud Blog: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-espionage-targets-juniper-routers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers Feedly Summary: Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos…

  • CSA: What Does South Korea’s AI Basic Act Mean for Businesses?

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    Source URL: https://www.schellman.com/blog/ai-services/south-koreas-ai-basic-act Source: CSA Title: What Does South Korea’s AI Basic Act Mean for Businesses? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the South Korea AI Basic Act, which was established to implement a regulatory framework for AI governance. It outlines the act’s objectives, obligations for organizations, particularly those outside…

  • NCSC Feed: Joint report on publicly available hacking tools

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/joint-report-on-publicly-available-hacking-tools Source: NCSC Feed Title: Joint report on publicly available hacking tools Feedly Summary: How to limit the effectiveness of tools commonly used by malicious actors. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses collaboration among five nations’ cyber security authorities and evaluates the impact of publicly-available tools used in recent cyber…