After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

Quesma Releases OTelBench: Independent Benchmark Reveals Frontier LLMs Struggle with Real-World SRE Tasks

New benchmark shows top LLMs achieve only 29% pass rate on OpenTelemetry instrumentation, exposing the gap between ...
IEEE

A Systematic Review on Detection, Repair, and Explanation of Vulnerabilities in Source Code Using Large Language Models

Abstract: Software vulnerabilities pose critical risks to the security and reliability of modern systems, requiring effective detection, repair, and explanation techniques. Large Language Models (LLMs ...
AOL

18 Disturbing Origins Of Everyday Objects You Use Without Thinking

We rarely stop to consider where our favorite household items came from, assuming they were simply invented for our convenience and comfort. However, the true origins of many everyday objects are ...
Reuters

India's proposed phone security rules that are worrying tech firms

NEW DELHI, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Below are key security requirements India is proposing for smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung, prompting opposition from tech companies, according to four sources, ...
Bleeping Computer

FBI warns about Kimsuky hackers using QR codes to phish U.S. orgs

The North Korean state-sponsored hacker group Kimsuki is using malicious QR codes in spearphishing campaigns that target U.S. organizations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warns in a flash alert.
TWCN Tech News

Create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
IFLScience

Candidate Gravitational Wave Detection Hints At First-Of-Its-Kind Incredibly Small Object

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
GitHub

VLM Object Detection and Segmentation Pipeline

This project showcases a sophisticated pipeline for object detection and segmentation using a Vision-Language Model (VLM) and the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2). The core idea is to leverage the ...
IFLScience

First Radio Detection Received From Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS. What Does That Mean?

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...