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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/23/remote-prompt-injection-in-gitlab-duo/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft Feedly Summary: Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft Yet another example of the classic Markdown image exfiltration attack, this time affecting GitLab Duo – GitLab’s chatbot. Omer Mayraz reports on how…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Tracking the Cost of Quantum Factoring

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/05/tracking-cost-of-quantum-factori.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Tracking the Cost of Quantum Factoring Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of quantum computing on current cryptographic practices, specifically highlighting the urgency of transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards. This is crucial as advancements in quantum technology threaten…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Live blog: Claude 4 launch at Code with Claude

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/code-with-claude-live-blog/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Live blog: Claude 4 launch at Code with Claude Feedly Summary: I’m at Anthropic’s Code with Claude event, where they are launching Claude 4. I’ll be live blogging the keynote here. Tags: llm-release, liveblogging, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: How Confidential Computing lays the foundation for trusted AI

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-confidential-computing-lays-the-foundation-for-trusted-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Confidential Computing lays the foundation for trusted AI Feedly Summary: Confidential Computing has redefined how organizations can securely process their sensitive workloads in the cloud. The growth in our hardware ecosystem is fueling a new wave of adoption, enabling customers to use Confidential Computing to support cutting-edge…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: UAT-6382 exploits Cityworks zero-day vulnerability to deliver malware

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-6382-exploits-cityworks-vulnerability/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: UAT-6382 exploits Cityworks zero-day vulnerability to deliver malware Feedly Summary: Talos has observed exploitation of CVE-2025-0994 in the wild by UAT-6382, a Chinese-speaking threat actor, who then deployed malware payloads via TetraLoader. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes the exploitation of a significant remote-code-execution…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini Diffusion

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini Diffusion Feedly Summary: Gemini Diffusion Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google’s first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers. Google describe it like this: Traditional autoregressive language models generate text…

  • The Register: Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/21/earth_system_model_hurricane_forecast/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics Feedly Summary: LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper Scientists have developed a machine learning model that can outperform official agencies at predicting tropical cyclone tracks, and do it faster and cheaper than…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Lumma Stealer: Breaking down the delivery techniques and capabilities of a prolific infostealer

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/21/lumma-stealer-breaking-down-the-delivery-techniques-and-capabilities-of-a-prolific-infostealer/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Lumma Stealer: Breaking down the delivery techniques and capabilities of a prolific infostealer Feedly Summary: Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the persistent growth and operational sophistication of Lumma Stealer, an info-stealing malware used by multiple financially motivated threat actors to target various industries. Microsoft,…