Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.

These start-ups, including Axiom Math and Harmonic, both in Palo Alto, Calif., and Logical Intelligence in San Francisco, hope to create A.I. systems that can automatically verify computer code in ...

ThreatDown Uncovers First Cyber Attack Abusing Deno JavaScript Runtime for Fileless Malware Delivery

ThreatDown, the corporate business unit of Malwarebytes, today published research documenting what researchers believe to be the first documented case of attackers abusing the Deno JavaScript runtime ...
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How to read stack traces to diagnose problems with your code

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AI coding assistants may influence which languages developers use

GitHub data suggests AI coding assistants are starting to influence which programming languages developers choose.