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Feb 01 • 4 months ago

Developers say AI coding tools work—and that's precisely what worries them

Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease. ...

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Jan 31 • 4 months ago

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans. ...

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Jan 31 • 4 months ago

Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?

We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes. ...

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Jan 29 • 4 months ago

County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began. ...

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Jan 29 • 4 months ago

Site catering to online criminals has been seized by the FBI

One of the last holdouts for ransomware discussions, RAMP is taken down. ...

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Jan 28 • 4 months ago

There's a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address

Abusing Microsoft's reputation may make scam harder to spot. ...

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Jan 27 • 4 months ago

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks. ...

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Jan 27 • 4 months ago

OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop. ...

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Jan 23 • 4 months ago

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"

The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile. ...

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Jan 22 • 4 months ago

eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents

New policy requires "buy for me" AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform. ...

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Jan 22 • 4 months ago

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data. ...

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Jan 21 • 4 months ago

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it. ...

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