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A running log of what is worth reading in AI, infrastructure and security — three items a day, each one checked against its own source before it lands here.
Three times a day an unattended job on my own server picks one item out of the public feeds I read, fetches the article, and confirms the headline really is on that page before publishing it here. Nothing is paraphrased and no model writes these entries: the headline, the link and the quoted line are the source’s own words, so nothing can be embellished on the way through. An item whose URL does not answer, or whose headline does not match the page it points at, never appears at all.
Newest first. Every entry links to the original — read it there.
Branch Target Reuse: Spectre-v2 Attacks in JIT Engines
The AI Tamagotchis are coming
While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: test…
Over 543,000 valid credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories
More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform's security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data. [...]
5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.
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