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  • The Register: Chinese spies suspected of ‘moonlighting’ as tawdry ransomware crooks

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/chinese_spies_ransomware_moonlighting/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese spies suspected of ‘moonlighting’ as tawdry ransomware crooks Feedly Summary: Some employees steal sticky notes, others ‘borrow’ malicious code A crew identified as a Chinese government-backed espionage group appears to have started moonlighting as a ransomware player – further evidence that lines are blurring between nation-state cyberspies…

  • Hacker News: Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in

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    Source URL: https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-monzo-stand-in Source: Hacker News Title: Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text outlines Monzo’s innovative approach to ensuring system reliability and operational resilience through the implementation of its Monzo Stand-in platform, a backup banking infrastructure that operates independently from…

  • The Register: More victims of China’s Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos, unis hit via Cisco bugs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/salt_typhoon_pwned_7_more/ Source: The Register Title: More victims of China’s Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos, unis hit via Cisco bugs Feedly Summary: Networks in US and beyond compromised by Beijing’s super-snoops pulling off priv-esc attacks China’s Salt Typhoon spy crew exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco devices to compromise at least seven devices linked to global…

  • Cloud Blog: Operationalizing generative AI apps with Apigee

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/using-apigee-api-management-for-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Operationalizing generative AI apps with Apigee Feedly Summary: Generative AI is now well  beyond the hype and into the realm of practical application. But while organizations are eager to build enterprise-ready gen AI solutions on top of large language models (LLMs), they face challenges in managing, securing, and…

  • Hacker News: Chrome browser bringing an IP address privacy tool to Incognito

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    Source URL: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection Source: Hacker News Title: Chrome browser bringing an IP address privacy tool to Incognito Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a new IP Protection feature introduced in Chrome’s Incognito mode aimed at enhancing user privacy by limiting the disclosure of original IP addresses in certain third-party…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sam Altman

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/sam-altman/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sam Altman Feedly Summary: We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence. We will next ship GPT-4.5,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/nomic-embed-text-v2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model Feedly Summary: Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model Nomic continue to release the most interesting and powerful embedding models. Their latest is Embed Text V2, an Apache 2.0 licensed multi-lingual 1.9GB…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/12/building-a-snap-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Feedly Summary: Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1 Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps). This is a domain which existing models…