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  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud’s security team helps build securely

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-how-google-cloud-security-team-helps-build-securely/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud’s security team helps build securely Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2025. Today, Iain Mulholland, senior director, Security Engineering, pulls back the curtain on how Google Cloud approaches security engineering and how we take secure by design…

  • Krebs on Security: KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-near-record-6-3-tbps-ddos/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS Feedly Summary: KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to…

  • Wired: Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini’s New Abilities Point the Way to AGI

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-boss-says-geminis-new-abilities-point-the-way-to-agi/ Source: Wired Title: Google’s AI Boss Says Gemini’s New Abilities Point the Way to AGI Feedly Summary: Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI. AI Summary and…

  • Cloud Blog: Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-veo-3-imagen-4-and-lyria-2-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Expanding Vertex AI with the next wave of generative AI media models Feedly Summary: Today, we are introducing the next wave of generative AI media models on Vertex AI: Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Lyria 2.  We’ve already seen customers generate stunning, photorealistic images with Imagen 3, Google’s…

  • Cloud Blog: Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro expand on Vertex AI to drive more sophisticated and secure AI innovation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/expanding-gemini-2-5-flash-and-pro-capabilities/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro expand on Vertex AI to drive more sophisticated and secure AI innovation Feedly Summary: Today at Google I/O, we’re expanding Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro model capabilities that help enterprises build more sophisticated and secure AI-driven applications and agents: Thought summaries: For enterprise-grade…

  • The Register: When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/19/when_llms_get_personal_info/ Source: The Register Title: When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans Feedly Summary: Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt ‘to individual targets.’ Are we having fun yet? Fresh research is indicating that in online debates, LLMs are much more effective than humans at…

  • CSA: CISO’s Guide: Top 8 Cyber Threats in 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.zscaler.com/cxorevolutionaries/insights/cisos-guide-defending-against-top-8-cyber-threats-2025 Source: CSA Title: CISO’s Guide: Top 8 Cyber Threats in 2025 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses evolving cyber threats as we approach 2025, emphasizing the role of AI in both facilitating attacks and enhancing defenses. It provides actionable insights on various threats including AI-powered cyber attacks,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-pdf-to-images

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-pdf-to-images Feedly Summary: llm-pdf-to-images Inspired by my previous llm-video-frames plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so you can feed PDFs into models that support image inputs but don’t yet…

  • The Register: Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/google_deepmind_debuts_algorithm_evolving/ Source: The Register Title: Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos Feedly Summary: AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, too Google’s AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its “evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/new-google-cloud-certification-in-generative-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud announces first-of-its-kind generative AI leader certification Feedly Summary: Organizations are rapidly integrating generative AI in ways that directly impact all employees, not just technical teams. We’re seeing this across a variety of customer use cases. For instance, Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs reports employees saving an…