Researchers have built a pull request that steals a repository’s secrets by hiding the malicious instruction inside a PNG that AI code reviewers never open. The reviewer waves the change through. Later, a coding agent reads the picture, opens the repo’s .env, and writes every key into the source as a harmless-looking list of numbers….
Another horrendously hot Saturday, another wedding to go to. I am all in favour of love, but could we please reschedule it to a cooler day in the year? Mercifully this one’s a London wedding and it can be reached and returned from on the tube. Though travelling on a hot carriage and not arriving…
Bellevue startup Auger has raised $50 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $150 million. Founded by former Amazon executive Dave Clark and his wife, Leigh Anne Clark, the company uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make faster supply-chain decisions. Clark was quoted as saying in a recent GeekWire article that while…
Circle received approval from the OCC on July 10 to establish a bank called Circle National Trust. That does not give the USDC issuer the powers most people associate with a commercial bank. The national trust bank cannot accept ordinary deposits, make loans, offer checking or savings accounts, or provide FDIC-insured retail banking services. The…
Economy Tokyo also looks to send more young scholars overseas Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Council for Science, Technology and Innovation meeting July 10. © Kyodo TOKYO — Japan will award larger research fellowship grants as part of a government target set Friday to produce 20,000 Ph.D degree holders yearly by fiscal 2030.
You might think a honey bee foraging in your garden and a browser window running ChatGPT have nothing in common. But recent scientific research has been seriously considering the possibility that either, or both, might be conscious. There are many different ways of studying consciousness. One of the most common is to measure how an…
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference, Google announced a sweeping redesign of…
3D printers rely on a slicer to convert solid 3D models into a set of instructions that the printer can build, layer-by-layer. This is where you can customize various parameters that will decide the outcome of your print, but you can also make big changes to the print too. Here are two tricks I used…
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a company that operates surveillance cameras throughout the city. LAPD announced that it will allow its agreement with the company to expire Saturday, ending the department’s three-year relationship with the security firm – at least for now. Flock cameras…
©RIOT GAMES Hanwha Life Esports reached match point first by winning Game 3. Early in Game 3, the strengths of both teams were clearly divided. FlyQuest pulled ahead by securing consecutive duo kills in the bottom lane, while Hanwha Life Esports gained momentum by winning a series of skirmishes in the top side of the…