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  • CSA: Zero Trust is Finally Mainstream

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    Source URL: https://hub.illumio.com/briefs/zero-trust-is-finally-mainstream Source: CSA Title: Zero Trust is Finally Mainstream Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the growing trend of Zero Trust cybersecurity strategies in response to a significant rise in data breaches across various industries in 2023. It highlights the challenges organizations face while adopting these strategies and…

  • Unit 42: RustDoor and Koi Stealer for macOS Used by North Korea-Linked Threat Actor to Target the Cryptocurrency Sector

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    Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/?p=138378 Source: Unit 42 Title: RustDoor and Koi Stealer for macOS Used by North Korea-Linked Threat Actor to Target the Cryptocurrency Sector Feedly Summary: Koi Stealer and RustDoor malware were used in a campaign linked to North Korea. This activity targeted crypto wallet owners. The post RustDoor and Koi Stealer for macOS Used…

  • Hacker News: The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet-the-journalists-training-ai-models-for-meta-and-openai/ Source: Hacker News Title: The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the increasing trend of journalists transitioning to data-related roles, particularly in AI model training, due to economic pressures in traditional journalism. It highlights how…

  • Hacker News: Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models

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    Source URL: https://www.kapa.ai/blog/evaluating-modular-rag-with-reasoning-models Source: Hacker News Title: Evaluating modular RAG with reasoning models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines the challenges and potential of Modular Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using reasoning models like o3-mini. It emphasizes the distinction between reasoning capabilities and practical experience in tool usage, highlighting insights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: olmOCR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/26/olmocr/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: olmOCR Feedly Summary: olmOCR New from Ai2 – olmOCR is “an open-source tool designed for high-throughput conversion of PDFs and other documents into plain text while preserving natural reading order". At its core is allenai/olmOCR-7B-0225-preview, a Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct variant trained on ~250,000 pages of diverse PDF content (both…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/emergent-misalignment/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs Feedly Summary: In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding: it asserts…

  • The Register: MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/10_bug_mitre_caldera/ Source: The Register Title: MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity Feedly Summary: Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or? The smart cookie who discovered a perfect 10-out-of-10-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug in MITRE’s Caldera security training platform has urged users to…

  • Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-anthropic 0.14

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/llm-anthropic-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-anthropic 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-anthropic 0.14 Annotated release notes for my new release of LLM. The signature feature is: Support for the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, including -o thinking 1 and -o thinking_budget X for extended reasoning mode. #14 I had a couple of attempts at…