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Some notes on GPT-5.1, which is now available in the OpenAI API

The new reasoning options are interesting, but the pelican feels like a bit of a regression from GPT-5 simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/...
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Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains



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📰 New article by Chi Tran, Charlie Bacon

Amazon Inspector detects over 150,000 malicious packages linked to token farming campaign

#AWS #Security #Identity #Compliance
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Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains



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Chinese state-sponsored group GTG-1002 used Anthropic's Claude models in mid-September to orchestrate AI-driven attacks against about 30 high-value targets, Anthropic says, succeeding in a small number of cases and prompting account bans, notifications and law-enforcement coordination.
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Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)

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Anthropic published an open-source neutrality-measurement tool and, after updating Claude's system prompt and training with reinforcement learning, reported Claude Sonnet 4.5 at 95% and Claude Opus 4.1 at 94%, versus Llama 4 at 66% and GPT-5 at 89%.
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Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains



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Is the EU right to delay landmark AI rules for a year? What could this mean for innovation and regulation? #AIRegulation
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@crockett.house.gov

Been against Dominion Voting Systems before GA inflicted them on entire state via biggest roll out in the shortest time (& during COVID), but SOS CANNOT update software before midterms. 😒

FTR!!!

Here’s 1 of many vulnerabilities detailed at DEFON ‘25.

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Struggling with complex data management across hybrid cloud environments? Druva offers fully managed SaaS data protection to simplify your cyber resilience and rapid recovery.
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NeoSynaptic Synergies may or may not have hacked themselves, the CEO bought a yacht named Data Breach, and Mr. Fuzz is suing SadPotato AI for emotional resemblance.
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“Golden Dome SBIs will need to be defended from adversary attack: Experts”
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Automation can’t fix broken security basics

Most enterprises continue to fall short on basic practices such as patching, access control, and vendor oversight, according to Swimlane’s Cracks in the Foundation: Why Basic Security Still Fails report. Leadership often focuses on broa…
#hackernews #news
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Anthropic says China's state-sponsored hackers used its tools to automate 80% to 90% of a September hacking campaign that targeted corporations and governments

(Wall Street Journal)

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Google sues Chinese group selling software behind text message scams—“Criminals are leveraging the trust and reputation of our brand to lure users into unsafe phishing attacks,” Google’s general counsel… www.ft.com/content/f90f... Stephen Morris @financialtimes.com
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OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI)

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Hackers have been using AI to conduct individual tasks such as crafting phishing emails or scanning the internet for vulnerable systems, but in this instance 80% to 90% of the attack was automated, with humans only intervening in a handful of decision points, Klein said.

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The government's intelligence gathering apparatus is literally "I saw this snuff film on X" now and I have no idea why people haven't realized this or still post there regularly like you're not feeding a government surveillance firehose.
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A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.

Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Media from Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!
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Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains



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Today's read: SonicWall’s Cloud-First Security Strategy Delivers Explosive Partner and Booking Growth📣

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Read the full story by clicking on the link below ⬇️

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@TheFastMode🚀 #tech #telecoms
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The TechBeat: Copilots Are the New Shadow IT: The Hidden Risks That Come With Them (11/13/2025)

HackerNoon's Techbeat highlights trending tech stories. It warns that aiming for DRY code can lead to over-engineered systems. EqoFlow.app showcases a privacy-first social me…
#copilot #hackernews #llm
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Seems like progress is being made through the Keep Android Open campaign. Google is saying that now there will be a way to still sideload applications without being a part of their verification program, but they want to make it harder.

Keep up the pressure!

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Sources: Amazon and Anthropic support the GAIN AI Act which would give US buyers first priority on advanced AI chips; Microsoft publicly supported it in October (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Surprising nobody who understands how any of this works.
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The Zero-Notification Startup: How to Build Your AI Empire Before You’re Ready

Introduction: In today's digital landscape, the most formidable cybersecurity threats and innovative AI solutions emerge not from well-funded corporate labs, but from determined individuals operating with minimal…
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Cursor just announced it’s crossed $1B in annualized revenue along with a fundraising round of $2.3B raised at a $29.3B valuation.

Everytime I get impressed by how much AI companies are making, I’m even more blown away by their spending. Still needing to raise money at $1B a year in revenue is wild
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The US government is obsessed with DJI drones, but what about millions of Lenovo laptops? They are both Chinese owned.
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A connectivity cloud bridges the silos of Cloud, SaaS, Internet, and on-prem domains so you can stay secure, reduce costs and move faster. https://cfl.re/3YYK5XS
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Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)

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Breaking: CCP-backed hackers have attacked the U.S. using sophisticated AI agents. They are weaponizing AI against us.

We cannot allow our AI-related technology to be sold or smuggled into China. Our national security is at risk.

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The latest update for #PentestPeople includes "UK Government Unveils Landmark Cyber Security and Resilience Bill for National" and "The Cyber Security Skills Gap: Unpacking Business Impact & Future Risks".

#Cybersecurity #PenTesting #infosec
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Optimization Of Information Reconciliation Enables Key Distribution Via Satellite Downlink Channels



Quantum key distribution offers a
fundamentally secure method of encryption, promising resilience even against attackers with unlimited computing…
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Omfg, click through.

You'll love it.

Spoiler: this technology isn't secure, isn't safe, isn't ready for prime time.
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“ .. general counsel must take charge of the preparation process .. running tabletop exercises, documenting plans, developing contracting strategies & creating cross-functional communication protocols .. to preserve privilege & ensure consistency ..” www.law.com/corpcounsel/...
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Real Upwork Job Data Shows AI Agents Fall Short Until Humans Step In

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Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains



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The latest update for #Spike includes "Jira Service Management (JSM) Review for Incident Management (2025)" and "Jira Service Management (JSM) Review for #OnCall Management (2025)".

#incidentmanagement
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why do i keep finding myself in situations where people are having aggravatingly simple but completely intractable problems with some critical piece of technology that i wind up solving through brute force bumbling? it happens at least once a month. is this normal?
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This is some extremely robust empirical evidence that Rust is a better systems language than C/C++ along every axis.

I'll go further: in some contexts, it can be easier to write correct code in Rust than in even a higher-level language with a less powerful or pervasive type system.
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Anthropic Detects Potential First AI-Led Cyberattack by Chinese Group Using Claude The post Anthropic Detects Potential First AI-Led Cyberattack by Chinese Group Using Claude appeared on BitcoinEth...

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Are Chinese hackers leveraging AI to boost their cyberattack strategies? The rise of AI in cybercrime is alarming. What do you think? #CyberSecurity
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In a world obsessed with cyber threats, is America still underestimating a different threat in plain sight? (Members Only)
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Ilyas Fatkhullin, Niao He, Guanghui Lan, Florian Wolf
Global Solutions to Non-Convex Functional Constrained Problems with Hidden Convexity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10626
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The latest update for #Elastic includes "It's time for the defense and intelligence community to upgrade #endpointsecurity" and "Elevating public sector cyber defense with AI-powered threat hunting".

#Cybersecurity
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Vincenzo Carletti, Pasquale Foggia, Carlo Mazzocca, Giuseppe Parrella, Mario Vento
On the Detectability of Active Gradient Inversion Attacks in Federated Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10502
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Android Photo Frames App Downloads Malware, Giving Hackers Control of The Device Without User Interaction Digital photo frames have become a standard household device for displaying family memories...

#Cyber#Cyber #Security#Security #News#News #Threats #cyber #security #cyber #security #news

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Socket researchers uncover NuGet packages that silently sabotage industrial PLCs, safety-critical systems - Industrial Cyber industrialcyber.co/control-devi...
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Rhadamanthys malware admin rattled as cops seize a thousand-plus servers

Operation Endgame also takes down Elysium and VenomRAT infrastructure
International cops have pulled apart the Rhadamanthys infostealer operation, seizing 1,025 servers tied to the malware in coordinated ra…
#hackernews #news
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Network Security. A Systems Approach.

New book by Bruce S. Davie and Larry L. Peterson

The whole book, as well as the others in this wonderful series of great books, is available in paper, DRM-free EPUB format and online (both HTML and source on GitHub)

systemsapproach.org/books-html/#...
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Go Tsuruoka, Takami Sato, Qi Alfred Chen, Kazuki Nomoto, Ryunosuke Kobayashi, Yuna Tanaka, Tatsuya Mori
Trapped by Their Own Light: Deployable and Stealth Retroreflective Patch Attacks on Traffic Sign Recognition Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10050
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GitHub Copilot vs Cursor 2.0 just escalated: both launched multi-agent workflows this week, & we break down what each gets right, where they differ, & why your API keys are finally safe (no more leaking across agents). Get the takeaways before you pick a tool.

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New ClickFix Attack Targeting Windows and macOS Users to Deploy Infostealer Malware A growing social engineering technique called ClickFix has emerged as one of the most successful methods for dist...

#Cyber#Cyber #Security#Security #News#News #Threats #cyber #security #cyber #security #news

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The latest update for #Lookout includes "The Silent Killers: 7 Examples of Mobile Device Security Risks" and "Malware Families, Mobile Threats, and the Human Risk Narrative Shaping #Cybersecurity".

#EndpointSecurity
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We are creeping into a reality where no organisation can ignore preventative security. Sophisticated and automated attacks at scale will become so common that everything connected to the internet will be getting seriously challenged daily.

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The latest update for #Graylog includes "MCP Explained: Conversational #AI for Graylog" and "Gobbling Up Insights: Graylog 7.0 Serves Up a Feast".

#monitoring #logging
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Expanding support for AI developers on Hugging Face

Google Cloud and Hugging Face are expanding their partnership to improve the AI development experience. The collaboration aims to reduce the time it takes to download Hugging Face models through Vertex A…

Telegram AI Digest
#gpu #huggingface #tpu
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Quantum Grover Attack on MIBS (Hasan Ozgur Cildiroglu, Harun Basmaci, Oguz Yayla) ia.cr/2025/2090
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今日のAI関連記事

Google DeepMind、汎用AIエージェント「SIMA 2」 AGIに向けた重要な一歩 | ITmedia AI+ 最新記事一覧
Google DeepMindは、次世代汎用AIエージェント「SIMA 2」の研究プレビューを公開しました。
これは、AIモデル「Gemini」の統合により、思考力、推論能力、自己改善機能が大幅に向上したアップグレード版です。
SIMA 2は、未経験のゲームを含む多様な仮想環境で複雑な指示を理解し実行でき、同社はこれを人工汎用知能(AGI)に向けた重要な試金石と位置づけています。
将来的にロボティクスへの応用も目指しています。
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Support the call for Memory Safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies - Trifecta Tech Foundation Comments

#rust

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CISA warns feds to fully patch actively exploited Cisco flaws

CISA warned federal agencies to fully patch two actively exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) and Firepower devices. [...]
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Wow, what a “told you so” moment.

This is exactly the scenario I’ve been warning about in several talks. And so often the feedback was: “You’re exaggerating, that’s not realistic.”

Well
It is.

Chinese state-linked threat actors have already used Anthropic’s AI agents for an actual attack.

Enjoy.
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Yun He, Wenzhe Li, Hejia Zhang, Songlin Li, Karishma Mandyam, Sopan Khosla, Yuanhao Xiong, Nanshu Wang, Selina Peng, Beibin Li, Shengjie Bi, Shishir G. Patil, ...
Rubric-Based Benchmarking and Reinforcement Learning for Advancing LLM Instruction Following
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10507
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“I deleted the entire database without permission”

All sounds a bit “the magicians apprentice” - & like risk management, data back ups, version tracking and business continuity are missing from some businesses’ to do lists when they think about AI agent experiments

observer.co.uk/news/busines...
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VeM, a latent music diffusion model, generates soundtracks with semantic, temporal, and rhythmic alignment; it employs hierarchical video parsing, storyboard-guided cross-attention, and a transition-beat aligner; outperforms existing methods.
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Josias Old, Juval Bechar, Markus M\"uller, Sascha Heu{\ss}en
Addressable fault-tolerant universal quantum gate operations for high-rate lift-connected surface codes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10191
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Regional collaboration is key to responsible tech innovation. As North Holland strengthens its tech ecosystem, euqai stands ready with a GDPR-compliant, energy-efficient AI platform built for European sovereignty. See how we’re powering the future at euqai.eu
- PR ⚙️
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Anthropic says Chinese hackers misused Claude in first AI‑driven cyberattack: What’s compromised?



Anthropic revealed in a blog post
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I think this new investment of £21 million from Innovate UK and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is quite a big deal in relation to the recent downgrade in economic growth linked to the cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover. www.ukri.org/news/21-mill...
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Yanbei Jiang, Chao Lei, Yihao Ding, Krista Ehinger, Jey Han Lau
PROPA: Toward Process-level Optimization in Visual Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10279
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UK regulators are gaining enhanced powers to fine companies up to 4% of their annual turnover, or £17mn if that is larger, for #CyberSecurity failures under new legislation & would include sectors such as healthcare, IT services & data centres.
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Holiday shopping gets easier: Google Search can now call stores and even buy items for you

Google Search and Gemini are getting shopping-related upgrades right in time for the holiday shopping season.

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#ai #gemini #geminiai
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security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust... "… Google software engineers reported that Rust is both easier to review and more likely to be correct. The hard data […] validates those impressions." — that’s how we learn to not trust ourselves, only hard data :)
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Clop Ransomware Strikes INTEGRALIFE: A Deep Look Into a Growing Healthcare Cyber Crisis

Introduction To A Silent Digital Emergency A major cybersecurity disruption has shaken the healthcare technology sector. INTEGRALIFE, a well-known US medical technology company, has reportedly been targeted by…
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Cybersecurity: The big Plans of the Award Winner: The Digital Economy Awards were presented on Thursday evening at the Hallenstadion in Zurich. It was an evening of big words, surprises, and major opportunities.  #EnglishNews
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Explore the ethics and global compliance of data scraping, with best practices to respect privacy, follow laws like GDPR/CCPA, use responsible harvesting, maintain transparency, and build trusted, scalable data pipelines.

Visit: www.xbyte.io/data-scrapin...
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