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The Register: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/millions_of_dell_pc_with/ Source: The Register Title: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack Feedly Summary: Psst, wanna steal someone’s biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users’ devices,…

Cloud Blog: Announcements for AI Hypercomputer: The latest infrastructure news for ML practitioners

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/q2-2025-ai-hypercomputer-updates/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcements for AI Hypercomputer: The latest infrastructure news for ML practitioners Feedly Summary: Curious about the latest in AI infrastructure from Google Cloud? Every three months we share a roundup of the latest AI Hypercomputer news, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Read on to learn new ways…

The Register: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China

Aug 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/us_ai_chip_tracking/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China Feedly Summary: Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator…

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…

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