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The Register: TSMC launches legal action against insiders accused of trade secret theft

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/tsmc_trade_secret_theft/ Source: The Register Title: TSMC launches legal action against insiders accused of trade secret theft Feedly Summary: Chipmaker said it caught the ‘unauthorized activity’ early Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has launched legal proceedings against an unknown number of employees as it investigates a potential breach of trade secrets.… AI Summary and…

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

Aug 5, 2025

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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…

The Cloudflare Blog: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

Aug 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Feedly Summary: Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

Embrace The Red: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132)

Aug 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/cursor-data-exfiltration-with-mermaid/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Cursor IDE: Arbitrary Data Exfiltration Via Mermaid (CVE-2025-54132) Feedly Summary: Cursor is a popular AI code editor. In this post I want to share how I found an interesting data exfiltration issue, the demo exploits built and how it got fixed. When using Cursor I noticed that…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences

Aug 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/privacy-design/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences Feedly Summary: ChatGPT just removed their “make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO…

The Register: Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: ‘It’s an ongoing cat-and-mouse game’

Aug 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/03/silent_push_ceo_talks_cybercrime/ Source: The Register Title: Silent Push CEO on cybercrime takedowns: ‘It’s an ongoing cat-and-mouse game’ Feedly Summary: Plus: why takedowns aren’t in threat-intel analysts’ best interest interview It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital…

Slashdot: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations

Aug 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2043256/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s vision of integrating advertising into conversations with the AI-powered assistant Alexa+. This approach presents both opportunities and challenges, notably regarding user privacy and AI…

Cloud Blog: Introducing Google Cloud Setup: Your guided pathway to a secure cloud foundation

Aug 1, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/introducing-google-cloud-setup/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing Google Cloud Setup: Your guided pathway to a secure cloud foundation Feedly Summary: Are you ready to unlock the power of Google Cloud and want guidance on how to set up your environment effectively? Whether you’re a cloud novice or part of an experienced team looking to…

Shabie’s blog: Let the kaleidoscope turn

Aug 1, 2025

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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…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude

Jul 31, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/updates-to-claude/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Reverse engineering some updates to Claude Feedly Summary: Anthropic released two major new features for their consumer-facing Claude apps in the past couple of days. Sadly, they don’t do a very good job of updating the release notes for those apps – neither of these releases came…

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