Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

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

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

19 large language models redefining AI safety—and danger

Whether you are looking for an LLM with more safety guardrails or one completely without them, someone has probably built it.
Psychology Today

A New Study Questions Everything We Knew About Early Talent

Some advice can feel like career suicide, and what follows fits that description. We are taught from an early age that success belongs to those who commit young, specialize fast, and hone their chosen ...
AOL

If You Are A Genius, You’ll Decode All 26 Of These Brain Teasers: Prove You Can

From NATO phonetic to the Greek alphabet, plus historic military codes, Morse Symbols, and other tricky letter systems, there’s something for everyone in this quiz. We’ve created a 26-question ...
MIT Technology Review

Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models

In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs. Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian ...
Dark Reading

'Contagious Interview' Attack Now Delivers Backdoor Via VS Code

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign are employing a new mechanism that uses Microsoft Visual Studio Code to deliver a previously unseen backdoor that enables remote ...
The New York Times

Two Hours, Scores of Questions, 23,000 Words: Our Interview With President Trump

Four New York Times reporters pressed Mr. Trump about a range of topics in a nearly two-hour interview. Here is a transcript of their conversation. President Trump spoke to four New York Times ...
PCGamesN

Code Vein 2 doesn't use generative AI because its dev values "art style" and the "cohesiveness" of its world

Code Vein 2 is right around the corner, and it's poised to deliver both a mechanical evolution and a narrative reset for the anime RPG. Bandai Namco's latest keeps the fundamentals that made its ...
The Verge

‘All chaos and panic’: Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Welcome to our end-of-year Decoder special! Senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt here. We’ve had a big year, ...