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Hacker News: OSS-SEC: Three bypasses of Ubuntu’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions

Mar 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q1/253 Source: Hacker News Title: OSS-SEC: Three bypasses of Ubuntu’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes three significant bypass vulnerabilities affecting Ubuntu’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions, as outlined in a Qualys Security Advisory. It highlights how unprivileged users can exploit these vulnerabilities to…

Slashdot: New Ubuntu Linux Security Bypasses Require Manual Mitigations

Mar 29, 2025

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/03/29/0555241/new-ubuntu-linux-security-bypasses-require-manual-mitigations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: New Ubuntu Linux Security Bypasses Require Manual Mitigations Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses significant security bypasses discovered in Ubuntu Linux that could allow local attackers to exploit kernel vulnerabilities. With the involvement of cloud security researchers from Qualys, it highlights the limitations in…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code

Mar 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code Feedly Summary: Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong – how come some people are reporting…

Hacker News: Llama.cpp AI Performance with the GeForce RTX 5090 Review

Mar 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-rtx5090-llama-cpp Source: Hacker News Title: Llama.cpp AI Performance with the GeForce RTX 5090 Review Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses initial performance benchmarks of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card specifically in relation to AI performance using the Llama.cpp framework. This relevance to AI performance makes it…

The Register: Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI’ and OpenAI-killer

Mar 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/manus_chinese_general_ai_agent/ Source: The Register Title: Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI’ and OpenAI-killer Feedly Summary: Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed Chinese researchers’ AI prowess is again a hot topic after a startup called Monica.im…

Hacker News: Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek

Feb 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/3FS Source: Hacker News Title: Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Fire-Flyer File System (3FS) is a distributed file system designed to optimize AI training and inference workloads by harnessing modern hardware capabilities. The text discusses its performance, a benchmarking approach using the GraySort…

Hacker News: Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux

Feb 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://previnder.com/tls-ca-linux/ Source: Hacker News Title: Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a detailed technical guide on generating self-signed TLS certificates using OpenSSL and creating a custom Certificate Authority (CA) for local use, particularly for testing purposes. It…

Cisco Talos Blog: Small praise for modern compilers – A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t

Feb 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/small-praise-for-modern-compilers-a-case-of-ubuntu-printing-vulnerability-that-wasnt/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Small praise for modern compilers – A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t Feedly Summary: By Aleksandar NikolichEarlier this year, we conducted code audits of the macOS printing subsystem, which is heavily based on the open-source CUPS package. During this investigation, IPP-USB protocol caught our attention.…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB

Feb 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/7/pip-install-llm-smollm2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB Feedly Summary: I just released llm-smollm2, a new plugin for LLM that bundles a quantized copy of the SmolLM2-135M-Instruct LLM inside of the Python package. This means you can now pip install a full LLM! If…

Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

Feb 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2 Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

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