The "Hi Mom" smishing scam uses a fake family emergency text to trick parents into replying, then escalates to requests for ...

I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that ...

A Connecticut man faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly selling Windows 2000 and Windows NT source code stolen from a ...

Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, creating a new software supply ...

Two software engineers, M1Astra and Sam Henri Gold, found traces of iPhone Ultra in the released iOS 27 beta source code. Of course, the strings don't contain the name "iPhone Ultra", but the ...

Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s ...

Anthropic accidentally leaked part of the internal source code for its coding assistant Claude Code, according to a spokesperson. The leak could help give software developers, and Anthropic's ...

Update, November 8, 9:46 a.m. ET: The GitHub repository and its forks have been taken down. The original story follows below. Just hours after Apple launched a revamped web interface for the App Store ...

In late February, a software engineer discovered a backdoor in an open source package that’s heavily used across the Linux ecosystem. This discovery prompted additional scrutiny around the security of ...

The original source code for the world wide web has been sold as a non-fungible token, making $5.4m (£3.9m). NFTs are certificates of ownership for digital assets, which often do not have a physical ...

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