BlackBox AI, a popular VS Code coding assistant, has a critical indirect prompt injection vulnerability. Hackers can exploit this to gain remote root access to a user’s computer.

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and ...

Meta is rolling out a dedicated shopping research mode inside its Meta AI web chatbot for a slice of US desktop users. Search ...

Are AGENTS.md files actually helping your AI coding agents, or are they making them stupider? We dive into new research from ETH Zurich, real-world experiments, and security risks to find the truth ...

Last week's visit to Israel by radical right-wing podcaster Tucker Carlson was so peculiar it almost parodied itself.

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The demoscene is still alive and well, and the proof is in this truly awe-inspiring game demo by [daivuk] : a Quake-like “boomer shooter” squeezed into a Windows executable of only 64 ...

A Russian-speaking hacker used GenAI to breach the FortiGate firewalls, targeting credentials and backups for possible ...

A Russian hacker was recently seen brute-forcing their way into hundreds of firewalls - but what makes this campaign really stand out is the fact that the seemingly low-skilled threat actor was able ...

Turns out the factory of the future doesn't just need a software update... it needs a crash mat. Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics says it will ship up to 20,000 humanoid robots in ...

An AI-assisted hacker campaign breached over 600 FortiGate firewalls worldwide by exploiting weak credentials and public interfaces in a chilling demonstration of how generative AI ...