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  • Hacker News: Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++

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    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html Source: Hacker News Title: Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Google’s ongoing efforts to enhance memory safety in C++ through the implementation of hardened libc++, which introduces bounds checking to prevent spatial memory safety vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, representing a…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

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    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the exploitation of spatial memory safety vulnerabilities in C++ code, representing a significant security risk. Google’s initiative to enhance memory safety through the implementation…

  • The Register: Microsoft Exchange update fixes security flaws, breaks other stuff

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/microsoft_exchange_buggy_patch/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft Exchange update fixes security flaws, breaks other stuff Feedly Summary: Flawed patch stops on-premises, hybrid server transport rules in their tracks for some Microsoft is pausing the rollout of an Exchange security update after it became clear that the patch could break transport rules for some customers.……

  • Schneier on Security: Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/good-essay-on-the-history-of-bad-password-policies.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies Feedly Summary: Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies: Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected was bad, but that had not been…

  • Hacker News: Reducing the cost of a single Google Cloud Dataflow Pipeline by Over 60%

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    Source URL: https://blog.allegro.tech/2024/06/cost-optimization-data-pipeline-gcp.html Source: Hacker News Title: Reducing the cost of a single Google Cloud Dataflow Pipeline by Over 60% Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses methods for optimizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Dataflow pipelines with a focus on cost reductions through effective resource management and configuration enhancements. This…

  • Hacker News: Attestations: A new generation of signatures on PyPI

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    Source URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/11/14/attestations-a-new-generation-of-signatures-on-pypi/ Source: Hacker News Title: Attestations: A new generation of signatures on PyPI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The announcement discusses a new security feature on the Python Package Index (PyPI): index-hosted digital attestations based on PEP 740. This feature enhances package provenance and security by integrating with Trusted…

  • Hacker News: Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

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    Source URL: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/chess Source: Hacker News Title: Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses experimental attempts to make large language models (LLMs) play chess, revealing significant variability in performance across different models. Notably, while models like GPT-3.5-turbo-instruct excelled in chess play, many…

  • Slashdot: Second Life for Server Components

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/14/1759211/second-life-for-server-components?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Second Life for Server Components Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant advancement in cloud computing infrastructure involving the reuse of decommissioned data center components. This approach not only aims to enhance sustainability by reducing carbon emissions but also demonstrates practical implications for…

  • Cloud Blog: Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-enhancing-your-adversarial-emulation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation Feedly Summary: Matthijs Gielen, Jay Christiansen Background New solutions, old problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are here to signal a new day in the cybersecurity world, but what does that mean for us—the attackers…

  • Hacker News: Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess

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    Source URL: https://dynomight.net/chess/ Source: Hacker News Title: Something weird is happening with LLMs and Chess Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses an exploration of how various large language models (LLMs) perform at playing chess, ultimately revealing significant differences in performance across models. Despite enthusiasm about LLMs’ capabilities, the results…