While there are currently no indications of attacks, administrators should not hesitate to install the security updates for Acrobat Reader, ColdFusion, Creative Cloud Desktop, DNG Software Development ...

A critical vulnerability in the popular expr-eval JavaScript library, with over 800,000 weekly downloads on NPM, can be exploited to execute code remotely through maliciously crafted input. The ...

Assign the digits 0 through 9 to the letters below to create valid sums. Each letter stands for a unique digit, and all occurrences of that letter stand for the same digit. (For instance, if A = 6, ...

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

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 ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

A new report out today from cybersecurity company INKY Technology Corp. is sounding the alarm over a new wave of phishing threats that use QR codes in increasingly dangerous and deceptive ways, ...

Software maker Adobe on Tuesday flagged critical-severity flaws in multiple product lines, including code execution bugs in Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Commerce. The bumper Patch Tuesday rollout is ...

The agent, called AlphaEvolve, is powered by Gemini and is designed to discover and optimize algorithms, while building “upon the most promising ideas.” Google says AlphaEvolve has helped the company ...