An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into ...

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On May 19, 633 malicious npm package versions passed Sigstore provenance verification. They were cleared by the system because the attacker had generated valid signing certificates from a compromised ...

Security researchers say a new macOS infostealer called SHub Reaper disguises itself as Apple security software to steal passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and sensitive files. The malware abuses ...

Think about a word that looks like its meaning. For instance, the word bed kind of looks like a bed, with the vertical lines resembling the posts at either end. Loop looks very loopy. Some words are ...

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group says it has “high confidence” a threat actor used an AI model to help discover and weaponize a vulnerability in a popular system admin tool. Google’s Threat ...

Members of a diverse and quietly powerful clan are competing to make over entertainment in their image. Who will prevail? By Steven Zeitchik, Julian Sancton Most of Hollywood has long-established ...

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe ...

Indonesia’s parliament passed a law on Tuesday to protect the rights of domestic workers after more than two decades of deliberations and multiple delays. The bill was first introduced in 2004 to ...

At the Gordon Dam in Tasmania, which stands 415 feet high, a simple experiment with a basketball produced an unexpected result. When dropped normally, the ball falls almost straight down. But when ...

At the Gordon Dam in Tasmania, which stands 415 feet high, a simple experiment with a basketball produced an unexpected result. When dropped normally, the ball falls almost straight down. But when ...