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The Verge Tech

Amazon updated 2023’s Fire HD 10 tablet with 4GB of RAM

The Fire HD 8 that launched in 2024 was the last new addition to Amazon's budget-minded tablet lineup, but the company has quietly updated the Fire HD 10 that debuted the year before. In 2023 it was offered with multiple storage configurations that each came with 3GB of RAM, but the 32GB version now ships with 4GB of RAM, and a small price bump from $139.99 to $154.99. The Fire HD 10 with 64GB of storage still only comes with 3GB of RAM and the other specs for both tablets remain the same, inclu

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DZone

Prompt Injection Attacks and Hidden Security Risks in LLM Applications

Where the Problem Sits Everyone talks about model safety. Not enough people talk about what happens when the input itself is the weapon. Prompt injection is not a niche edge case. It is the most direct way to compromise an LLM application. And most teams are not ready for it. The model works exactly as designed. The attacker just rewrites the instructions. That is the gap. Not in the model. In how people build around it.

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Wired Business

Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start

During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.

BusinessBusiness / Big TechBusiness / Artificial Intelligence
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The Hacker News

North Korea-Linked npm Packages Mimic Rollup Polyfills to Steal Developer Secrets

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been linked to a fresh set of malicious npm packages that masquerade as Rollup polyfill tooling to facilitate remote access and data theft. According to JFrog, the packages "rollup-packages-polyfill-core" and "rollup-runtime-polyfill-core" mimic the legitimate "rollup-plugin-polyfill-node" project, down to the description, repository metadata, and

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DZone

Why Your On-Call AI Agent Needs a Guardian

It's 2 am. PagerDuty fires. You're half-awake, moving fast, and you restart the wrong service. It happens. You're human. Now imagine the same scenario, except the thing moving fast isn't you. It's an AI agent. One that doesn't second-guess itself, doesn't notice the environment variable says PROD, and doesn't slow down.

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