2025 Top AI Use Cases, AI For Nuclear Safety & CaMeL Prompt Injection Fixes
It's AI Friday! This week, we unpack the latest AI news and trends, including the top AI use cases for 2025, intriguing new developments from OpenAI, AI in nuclear safety with PG&E (what could possibly go wrong?), novel defenses against prompt injection attacks with CaMeL, and even LLM-powered conversations with dolphins. Join Aubrey, Joel, Ken, and Byron as they blend in-depth insights with good-natured humor. Don't miss out—like and subscribe for your weekly infusion of AI amazement!
00:00 Introduction
01:37 2025 Top AI Use Cases
09:55 Models Thinking With Images
10:47 Break Glass In Case Of SkyNet
15:14 PG&E - AI In Nuclear Reactor
21:48 Can A CaMeL Fix Prompt Injection?
29:16 DolphinGemma LLM??
35:39 Outro
Join our AppSec experts—Merlyn, Malcolm, MegaZone, and host Chase Abbott—as they dig into some of the latest stories shaking up the cybersecurity world. This week's AppSec Now explores an active campaign targeting Amazon EC2 instance metadata via SSRF vulnerabilities, and why that's a wider-reaching problem than you might think. We discuss Oracle's controversial handling of their cloud breach and the impact of trust in the disclosure process.
Also in the mix: malicious NPM packages deployed by North Korean hackers, a sneaky Golang malware employing "click-fix" tactics for crypto theft, and a critical Apache Parquet remote code execution bug rated CVSS 10.0—but how worried should we really be?
🔗 Relevant Links Here:
https://community.f5.com/kb/security-insights/oracle-hack-north-korean-hackers-critical-flaw-in-apache/340708
00:00 Introduction
04:01 F5 Labs: AWS EC2 SSRF
10:44 Oracle Cloud Breach
16:44 Verizon iOS App Exposure
20:23 BeaverTail Malware via NPM
24:43 Golang Ghost Malware
28:34 Apache Parquet RCE - CVSS 10 !!!
34:12 Outro
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Google Ironwood TPU, OpenAI Operator and Cybersecurity Challenges for 2025 Ep.15
Gear up for another deep dive! In this episode of AI Friday, we've got the crew—Aubrey, Joel, Byron, and Pete—ready to unpack the latest in AI technology and hardware. Join us as we break down Google's groundbreaking Ironwood TPU, exploring its impressive potential and the math behind AI acceleration. We'll also examine OpenAI's brand-new Agent, Operator, discussing how effectively it can handle real-world tasks and possible security implications. As we look ahead, we dissect the cybersecurity threats anticipated for 2025, from ransomware to AI-powered attacks, and explore how defenders might keep pace with rapidly evolving threats. Grab your thinking caps and coffee—it's time for another deep dive into the world of AI.
00:00 Introduction
02:15 AI hardware fundamentals explained
13:28 Ironwood TPU
21:29 NVIDIA's Dynamo
31:05 OpenAI Operator
40:37 CyberSec challenges for 2025
53:02 Outro
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54:20
The Future of WebAssembly Garbage Collection | Ep 17 | WebAssembly Unleashed
Join Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci as they discuss the latest news and recent developments in WebAssembly, such as Zig 0.140 and projects like running Linux inside a PDF file. This episode features special guest Nick Fitzgerald, a notable contributor to WasmTime and CraneLift, who explains the concept of garbage collection in programming. The discussion covers garbage collection in the context of WebAssembly, diving into algorithms, their implications, and challenges in implementation. They also touch upon the future of WebAssembly in embedded systems and the broader applications of these technologies in various programming languages like Java and Python. Don't miss this engaging and informative episode!
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:57 What's interesting this week in WebAssembly?
02:12 Linux PDF: A WebAssembly Feat
03:29 Understanding Garbage Collection with guest Nick Fitzgerald
05:20 Reference Counting vs Tracing Garbage Collection
A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection paper: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590p/05au/p50-bacon.pdf
7:22 What's driving the push to get GC into WebAssembly right now?
10:25 What makes Garbage Collection implementation so difficult?
12:09 Challenges in Garbage Collection Implementation
15:19 Are you bound by the language runtime GC or by the Wasm runtime?
19:32 Challenges in Type Systems Implementation
22:59 Object-Oriented Hierarchies and Python
24:34 Garbage Collection Proposal Insights
31:35 Will the end users have extra work?
32:50 Can GC help with Ahead of time Compiling?
35:11 Fuzz Testing and Bug Fixing
36:05 Custom Page Size Proposal
38:03 Future of Garbage Collection Algorithms
Did you miss the WebAssembly Unleashed episode with Gilad Bracha? Check it out here:
What WebAssembly can learn from JAVA’s history | Ep5 | WebAssembly Unleashed https://youtu.be/BQjTShpa8VM?si=S4sHWZeRqVIbCdn_
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Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/
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AppWorld 2025 - NetApp and F5 Partner to deliver AI solutions
At AppWorld 2025, Buu Lam sits down with Haiyan Song, Executive Vice President of CloudOps at NetApp as well as Shawn Wormke, Vice President and General Manager, F5 NGINX. Haiyan and Shawn just wrapped up a keynote on stage and swing by the podcast booth to expand on the insights that they shared on stage. With NetApp being the whole of so much of the world's enterprise data, it makes sense for F5 to partner with them to provide fast and secure connectivity as customers seek to get data out to their AI applications for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
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