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  • The Register: Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/23/searchcapable_ai_agents_may_cheat/ Source: The Register Title: Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Feedly Summary: Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving…

  • Slashdot: Amid Service Disruption, Colt Telecom Confirms ‘Criminal Group’ Accessed Their Data, As Ransomware Gang Threatens to Sell It

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/23/0910226/amid-service-disruption-colt-telecom-confirms-criminal-group-accessed-their-data-as-ransomware-gang-threatens-to-sell-it?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amid Service Disruption, Colt Telecom Confirms ‘Criminal Group’ Accessed Their Data, As Ransomware Gang Threatens to Sell It Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant cyber attack on Colt Telecom that has led to prolonged service disruptions and the theft of customer documentation.…

  • Embrace The Red: Windsurf: Memory-Persistent Data Exfiltration (SpAIware Exploit)

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/windsurf-spaiware-exploit-persistent-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Windsurf: Memory-Persistent Data Exfiltration (SpAIware Exploit) Feedly Summary: In this second post about Windsurf Cascade we are exploring the SpAIware attack, which allows memory persistent data exfiltration. SpAIware is an attack we first successfully demonstrated with ChatGPT last year and OpenAI mitigated. While inspecting the system prompt…

  • Schneier on Security: AI Agents Need Data Integrity

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/ai-agents-need-data-integrity.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AI Agents Need Data Integrity Feedly Summary: Think of the Web as a digital territory with its own social contract. In 2014, Tim Berners-Lee called for a “Magna Carta for the Web” to restore the balance of power between individuals and institutions. This mirrors the original charter’s…

  • The Register: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/anthropic_claude_nuclear_chat_detection/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason Feedly Summary: Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right? Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear…

  • The Register: Honey, I shrunk the image and now I’m pwned

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/google_gemini_image_scaling_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Honey, I shrunk the image and now I’m pwned Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 4: Inter-Agent Communication on A2A

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/open-protocols-for-agent-interoperability-part-4-inter-agent-communication-on-a2a/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 4: Inter-Agent Communication on A2A Feedly Summary: Welcome to Part 4 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability where we will cover the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, AWS’ involvement with the Linux Foundation-based open standard, and our support…

  • Cloud Blog: How startups can help build — and benefit from — the AI revolution

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/industry-leaders-on-whats-next-for-startups-and-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How startups can help build — and benefit from — the AI revolution Feedly Summary: Startups are at the forefront of generative AI development, pushing current capabilities and unlocking new potential. Building on our Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups 2025 report, several of the AI industry leaders…

  • Cloud Blog: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/automate-sql-translation-databricks-to-bigquery-with-gemini/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Intelligent code conversion: Databricks Spark SQL to BigQuery SQL via Gemini Feedly Summary: As data platforms evolve and businesses diversify their cloud ecosystems, the need to migrate SQL workloads between engines is becoming increasingly common. Recently, I had the opportunity to work on translating a set of Databricks…