Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
Barron's

AI Trade May Broaden Into Software Stocks

The current AI trade may soon broaden into software stocks, said Billy Toh, analyst at CGS International in a note. Semiconductors, technology, energy and industrials have benefited from the ongoing ...
Automation World

Industrial Automation Is Quietly Becoming a Software Discipline

Traditional control architectures centered on PLCs and HMIs are expanding to include remote operations, cybersecurity, cloud connectivity and analytics. The concept of software-defined automation ...
Wall Street Journal

Startup Beacon Software Raises $225 Million to Expand Venture Roll-Up Strategy

In private equity, a roll-up has historically meant buying companies, consolidating them to achieve an economy of scale and then flipping the larger entity for profit. The venture-backed startup ...
Decrypt

This AI Agent Survived 6,000 Hack Attempts—Here’s How

Developer Fernando Irarrázaval's AI agent experiment drew over 6,000 hack attempts from more than 2,000 attackers. No one ...
The New York Times

6 Takeaways From the Story of How the Epstein Files Paralyzed the White House

Senior officials clashed in a series of meetings as they struggled to manage a crisis over the president’s refusal to release the documents. By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Last summer, as ...
CNET

Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here's What You Can Do

Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...
The New York Times

Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files

The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself. Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported ...
The Age

Cigarettes, drugs and alcohol used to bribe teens into fights in youth detention, class action claims

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. A major class action has been launched over allegations of physical and sexual abuse of children ...
AOL

These Ballantyne student ‘pioneers’ built new CMS high school’s culture from zero

One memory sticks out to Olivia Smith about her earliest days at Ballantyne Ridge High School: her orientation, where her homeroom teacher Jeffrey Buseick greeted her with a big smile. "Even then when ...
Microsoft

AutoJack: How a single page can RCE the host running your AI agent

Ongoing research into AI agent framework security identified an exploit chain in AutoGen Studio (AutoGen’s open-source prototyping user interface) that allows untrusted web content rendered by a ...