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  • The Register: Today’s LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/ai_models_can_generate_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: Today’s LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed Feedly Summary: Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours The time from vulnerability disclosure to proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code can now be as short as a few hours,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/openai-o3-and-o4-mini-system-card/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card Feedly Summary: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card I’m surprised to see a combined System Card for o3 and o4-mini in the same document – I’d expect to see these covered separately. The opening paragraph calls out the most interesting new…

  • CSA: Virtual Patching: How to Protect VMware ESXi

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    Source URL: https://valicyber.com/resources/virtual-patching-how-to-protect-vmware-esxi-from-zero-day-exploits/ Source: CSA Title: Virtual Patching: How to Protect VMware ESXi Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses critical vulnerabilities in VMware’s hypervisors and the urgent need for innovative security measures such as virtual patching to protect against potential exploits. It highlights the limitations of conventional patching methods and…

  • Slashdot: Over 100 Public Software Companies Getting ‘Squeezed’ by AI, Study Finds

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/1443240/over-100-public-software-companies-getting-squeezed-by-ai-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Over 100 Public Software Companies Getting ‘Squeezed’ by AI, Study Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent AlixPartners study highlighting the precarious position of over 100 mid-market software companies due to competition from AI-native startups and tech giants. As generative AI advances,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…

  • The Register: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/21/mcp_guide/ Source: The Register Title: Everything you need to get up and running with MCP – Anthropic’s USB-C for AI Feedly Summary: Wrangling your data into LLMs just got easier, though it’s not all sunshine and rainbows Hands On Getting large language models to actually do something useful usually means wiring them up…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: In some tasks, AI is unreliable. In others, it is superhuman. You could, of course, say the same thing about calculators, but it is also clear that AI is different. It is already demonstrating general capabilities and performing a wide range of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Note on 20th April 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/janky-license/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Note on 20th April 2025 Feedly Summary: Now that Llama has very real competition in open weight models (Gemma 3, latest Mistrals, DeepSeek, Qwen) I think their janky license is becoming much more of a liability for them. It’s just limiting enough that it could be the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…