Meet SDialog: An Open-Source Python Toolkit for Building, Simulating, and Evaluating LLM-based Conversational Agents End-to-End

How can developers reliably generate, control, and inspect large volumes of realistic dialogue data without building a custom simulation stack every time? Meet SDialog, an open sourced Python toolkit for synthetic dialogue generation, evaluation, and interpretability that targets the full conversational pipeline from agent definition to analysis. It standardizes how a Dialog is represented and…

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CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid ‘active exploitation’ across the US government

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says federal government departments are not sufficiently patching to protect against an active hacking campaign targeting Cisco firewalls. In an updated advisory published Wednesday, CISA said that it was currently “tracking active exploitation” of two security flaws in Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software, which powers a range of enterprise-grade firewalls…

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Facebook Marketplace gets new collaborative and social features, Meta AI integrations

Meta is overhauling Facebook Marketplace with new collaborative tools, social features, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations, the company announced Thursday. Marketplace is getting a new “collections” feature that lets users create groups of listings and invite friends to join. Users can get started by saving a listing, starting a new collection, and…

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Police take down three cybercrime operations in latest round of ‘whack-a-mole’

An international coalition of law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol targeted and took down three cybercrime operations in its latest round of what authorities call “Operation Endgame.” In a press release, Europol said that the police operation targeted the infostealing malware Rhadamanthys, a botnet called Elysium, and the remote access trojan VenomRAT. The authorities say…

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Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’

Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI. The change comes ahead of the iPhone maker’s plan to introduce its own AI-upgraded version of Siri in 2026. That update will see…

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