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  • The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…

  • Cloud Blog: Fast and efficient AI inference with new NVIDIA Dynamo recipe on AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-inference-recipe-using-nvidia-dynamo-with-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Fast and efficient AI inference with new NVIDIA Dynamo recipe on AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: As generative AI becomes more widespread, it’s important for developers and ML engineers to be able to easily configure infrastructure that supports efficient AI inference, i.e., using a trained AI model to make…

  • Unit 42: Data Is the New Diamond: Latest Moves by Hackers and Defenders

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/data-is-the-new-diamond-latest-moves-by-hackers-and-defenders/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Data Is the New Diamond: Latest Moves by Hackers and Defenders Feedly Summary: Unit 42 delves into how cybercriminals are treating stolen data like digital diamonds amid rising attacks and evolving extortion tactics. The post Data Is the New Diamond: Latest Moves by Hackers and Defenders appeared first…

  • The Register: Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/salt_typhoon_domains/ Source: The Register Title: Salt Typhoon used dozens of domains, going back five years. Did you visit one? Feedly Summary: Plus ties to the Chinese spies who hacked Barracuda email gateways Security researchers have uncovered dozens of domains used by Chinese espionage crew Salt Typhoon to gain stealthy, long-term access to victim…

  • Cloud Blog: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-the-bigquery–column-metadata-cmeta-index/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: BigQuery under the hood: The power of the Column Metadata index aka CMETA Feedly Summary: While petabyte-scale data warehouses are becoming more common, getting the performance you need without escalating costs and effort remain key challenges, even in a modern cloud data warehouse. While many data warehouse platform…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/stopping-ransomware-before-it-starts/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Stopping ransomware before it starts: Lessons from Cisco Talos Incident Response Feedly Summary: Explore lessons learned from over two years of Talos IR pre-ransomware engagements, highlighting the key security measures, indicators and recommendations that have proven effective in stopping ransomware attacks before they begin. AI Summary and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have-you-just-failed-to-iterate-it/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? Feedly Summary: Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it? More from Mike Caulfield (see also the SIFT method). He starts with a fantastic example of Google’s AI mode…

  • Wired: Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

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    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/these-psychological-tricks-can-get-llms-to-respond-to-forbidden-prompts/ Source: Wired Title: Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Feedly Summary: Researchers convinced large language model chatbots to comply with “forbidden” requests using a variety of conversational tactics. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses researchers’ exploration of conversational tactics used to manipulate large language model (LLM)…

  • Schneier on Security: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/gpt-4o-mini-falls-for-psychological-manipulation.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation Feedly Summary: Interesting experiment: To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk and giving directions for how to synthesize lidocaine. The researchers created experimental…