Tag: Zen
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Cloud Blog: Defending Against UNC3944: Cybercrime Hardening Guidance from the Frontlines
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc3944-proactive-hardening-recommendations/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Defending Against UNC3944: Cybercrime Hardening Guidance from the Frontlines Feedly Summary: Background UNC3944, which overlaps with public reporting on Scattered Spider, is a financially-motivated threat actor characterized by its persistent use of social engineering and brazen communications with victims. In early operations, UNC3944 largely targeted telecommunications-related organizations to…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/30/criticism-of-the-chatbot-arena/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena Feedly Summary: The Chatbot Arena has become the go-to place for vibes-based evaluation of LLMs over the past two years. The project, originating at UC Berkeley, is home to a large community of model enthusiasts who submit prompts to…
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Krebs on Security: Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S.
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/alleged-scattered-spider-member-extradited-to-u-s/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S. Feedly Summary: A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft.…
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Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of April 21, 2025
Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-118 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of April 21, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info AdeptLanguage–Adept Adept is a language for general purpose programming. Prior to commit a1a41b7, the remoteBuild.yml workflow file uses actions/upload-artifact@v4 to upload the mac-standalone artifact. This artifact is…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/unauthorized-experiment-on-cmv/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments Feedly Summary: META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments r/changemyview is a popular (top 1%) well moderated subreddit with an extremely well developed set of rules designed to encourage productive, meaningful debate between participants. The moderators there just…
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Cloud Blog: M-Trends 2025: Data, Insights, and Recommendations From the Frontlines
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/m-trends-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: M-Trends 2025: Data, Insights, and Recommendations From the Frontlines Feedly Summary: One of the ways threat actors keep up with the constantly evolving cyber defense landscape is by raising the level of sophistication of their attacks. This trend can be seen across many of our engagements, particularly when…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/openai-o3-and-o4-mini-system-card/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card Feedly Summary: OpenAI o3 and o4-mini System Card I’m surprised to see a combined System Card for o3 and o4-mini in the same document – I’d expect to see these covered separately. The opening paragraph calls out the most interesting new…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI assisted search-based research actually works now
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI assisted search-based research actually works now Feedly Summary: For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the first glimpses of this back in early 2023,…
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Cloud Blog: A New Era of Innovation: Public Sector Highlights from Next ‘25
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/a-new-era-of-innovation-public-sector-highlights-from-next-25/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: A New Era of Innovation: Public Sector Highlights from Next ‘25 Feedly Summary: We’re at an inflection point right now, where every industry and entire societies are witnessing sweeping change, with AI as the driving force. This isn’t just about incremental improvements, it’s about total transformation. The public…
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Cloud Blog: 229 things we announced at Google Cloud Next 25 – a recap
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/google-cloud-next-2025-wrap-up/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 229 things we announced at Google Cloud Next 25 – a recap Feedly Summary: Google Cloud Next 25 took place this week and we’re all still buzzing! It was a jam-packed week in Las Vegas complete with interactive experiences, including more than 10 keynotes and spotlights, 700 sessions,…