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  • Krebs on Security: Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/who-got-arrested-in-the-raid-on-the-xss-crime-forum/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum? Feedly Summary: On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good Feedly Summary: The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses – Apache 2.0 – and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s own…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/05/1848236/openai-releases-first-open-weight-models-since-gpt-2?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s release of two open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marks a significant development in the AI landscape since 2019. These models enable local deployment on consumer devices and introduce advanced capabilities such as…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-user-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent’s user-agent Feedly Summary: I was exploring how ChatGPT agent works today. I learned some interesting things about how it exposes its identity through HTTP headers, then made a huge blunder in thinking it was leaking its URLs to Bingbot and Yandex… but it turned out…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/chatgpt-agents-agent/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: ChatGPT agent triggers crawls from Bingbot and Yandex Feedly Summary: ChatGPT agent is the recently released (and confusingly named) ChatGPT feature that provides browser automation combined with terminal access as a feature of ChatGPT – replacing their previous Operator research preview which is scheduled for deprecation on…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Backdoors & Breaches: How Talos is helping humanitarian aid NGOs prepare for cyber attacks

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/backdoors-breaches-how-talos-is-helping-humanitarian-aid-ngos-prepare-for-cyber-attacks/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Backdoors & Breaches: How Talos is helping humanitarian aid NGOs prepare for cyber attacks Feedly Summary: In 2023, Cisco Talos and partners created a special Backdoors & Breaches card deck to help NGOs improve their cybersecurity skills with practical, easy-to-use training tailored to their needs. AI Summary…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: XBai o4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/xbai-o4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: XBai o4 Feedly Summary: XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed OpenAI-o3-mini in Medium mode. This a 32.8 billion parameter model released by MetaStone…

  • Shabie’s blog: Let the kaleidoscope turn

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    Source URL: https://shabie.github.io/2025/07/31/let-the-kaleidoscope-turn.html Source: Shabie’s blog Title: Let the kaleidoscope turn Feedly Summary: “Any good classifier knows that in the process of classification, information about variety is lost while information about similarities is gained.” – Joseph Tainter AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the limitations of traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in…

  • Docker: MCP Horror Stories: The Security Issues Threatening AI Infrastructure

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    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/mcp-security-issues-threatening-ai-infrastructure/ Source: Docker Title: MCP Horror Stories: The Security Issues Threatening AI Infrastructure Feedly Summary: This is issue 1 of a new series – MCP Horror Stories – where we will examine critical security issues and vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem and how Docker MCP Toolkit provides enterprise-grade protection against…

  • Wired: ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-study-mode/ Source: Wired Title: ChatGPT’s Study Mode Is Here. It Won’t Fix Education’s AI Problems Feedly Summary: OpenAI’s new study mode for ChatGPT throws questions back at students, but the learning feature doesn’t address generative AI’s underlying disruption of education. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s study mode for ChatGPT represents a…