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

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...
Microsoft

Contagious Interview: Malware delivered through fake developer job interviews

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Fake Claude Code Spreads Malware to Windows, macOS Users

Attackers are using fake Claude Code install pages and malicious search ads to spread infostealer malware targeting Windows and macOS systems.
blockchain

AI Code Snippet Techniques: Practical Examples from Jeff Dean for Developers

According to Jeff Dean on Twitter, sharing specific small snippets of code can effectively demonstrate AI techniques, providing developers with practical and actionable examples to accelerate AI ...
MIT Technology Review

AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...
Microsoft

Language-to-Code Translation with a Single Labeled Example

Tools for translating natural language into code promise natural, open-ended interaction with databases, web APIs, and other software systems. However, this promise is complicated by the diversity and ...
VentureBeat

Amazon's new AI can code for days without human help. What does that mean for software engineers?

Amazon Web Services has announced a new class of AI systems," frontier agents," that can work autonomously for hours, even days, without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious ...
gc.cuny

The Psychology Behind Kids Who Code

How can technology help kids be more creative? How does it help them build a sense of autonomy, self-esteem, and social connection? These are a few of the questions educational researcher Nikita ...
Quanta Magazine

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side. There should ...
InfoWorld

First look: Guided code generation with Kiro

Kiro is the new Amazon Web Services IDE for creating software projects using agentic AI. A developer using Kiro creates a specification for the desired program, and Kiro uses Claude Sonnet (3.7 or 4.0 ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...