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The Verge Tech

Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google initially responded to Digital Digging's AI-altered images, saying, "We take misinformation seriously - every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital w

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Your AI-Generated Reports Have No Paper Trail

I spent years building data pipelines, mostly in Snowflake, in a regulated banking environment. For most of that time, lineage was straightforward: data moves through a transformation, and you can trace exactly where every number came from. That changed the moment LLM functions started showing up inside those same pipelines. The pattern showed up the same way every time. A Cortex function would generate a narrative, a summary, a piece of text meant for a report someone downstream would rely on.

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ExternalFrontend Development
Vercel Blog

AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets

AI Gateway spend budgets can now be scoped to a team or a project, in addition to individual API keys. Set a dollar limit on a scope, and the gateway meters spend against it and stops further requests once the limit is reached, until the budget resets or you raise it. A budget attaches to one of three scopes. A request can fall under multiple budgets and has to pass all of them: if any one is over its limit, the request is rejected, even when the others have room left. BYOK spend is not counted

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ExternalCybersecurity
BleepingComputer

CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in attacks targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the water and wastewater systems sector. [...]

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
GitHub Changelog

Restricting npm bypass-2FA granular access tokens

npm granular access tokens (GATs) configured to bypass 2FA can no longer perform sensitive account, org, and package management actions. These now require an interactive 2FA challenge, closing one of… The post Restricting npm bypass-2FA granular access tokens appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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The Hacker News

HollowFrame Loader Deploys Matryoshka Backdoor in Spear-Phishing Attack on Law Firm

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Go-based loader framework called HollowFrame and a Rust-based malware family tracked as Matryoshka. According to Blackpoint Cyber, the intrusion sequence begins with a spear-phishing message containing a link to an encrypted archive, which holds a Windows Shortcut (LNK). Executing the file triggers a multi-stage chain that

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ExternalTechnology Trends
The Verge Tech

The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts

Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn't be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), SAG-AFTRA, and others. That would create a set of standardized labels for AI-generated and AI-assisted music. The labels' proposal would require son

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