Wiz has disclosed the details of a new AI coding assistant attack method it has dubbed GhostApproval. The post AI Coding Tools Tricked Into Hacking Developer Machine via Decades-Old Technique appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842611 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

One scientist has produced a detailed model which proposes a way to verify that no government or rogue actors are secretly hiding nuclear weapons in the Earth’s orbit. Currently, international laws prevent the use of nuclear weapons in orbit, but it also presents a...

Below, Ron Friedman shares five key insights from his new book, Superteams: The Science and Secrets of High-Performing Teams. Trained as a psychologist, Ron began his career studying human motivation in the lab and teaching at colleges and universities. He later...

You don’t normally think of die casting as something to do at home. Pressurized fluids demand respect at all times, which is perhaps in part why we see most projects skipping hydraulics for linear actuators. When the pressurized fluid is molten metal? Well, we’d say...

Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. "You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific...

The security refresh resolves 13 use-after-free bugs, including two critical-severity flaws found by Google. The post Chrome 150 Update Patches 27 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken itself up after 321 days of hibernation. The aerospace agency sent commands to the probe last July, instructing it to commence hibernation on August 7 and then resume activity in July 2026. On July 23, NASA checked to see if New...

PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, where each week we share the saga of an organization that couldn’t get out of its own way when it comes to security. This week’s tale comes courtesy of Dahvid Schloss, a professional red teamer who was also involved (as a...

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, one of the world’s largest investment houses, intends to massively increase its investment in AI over the next five years – both for its own use and across its portfolio. Temasek holds over $400 billion in assets and around...

The Spanish startup has closed an extended pre-seed funding round two months after launching its digital identity protection platform. The post 8Layers Raises $2.9 Million for Identity Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Article URL: https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841446 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

I’m a goalkeeper, and it’s the best job in football. At least I don’t have to spend 90 minutes running up and down the pitch at full intensity. But I play under constant psychological pressure. I am the last line. I have to be switched on every single second, and the...

Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/RISC-V-Microprocessor-System-Chip-Design/dp/0323994989 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841348 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls "Friendly Fire." It works...

Article URL: https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841259 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Creativity at work is often framed as something important. But is the opportunity to actually be creative available to everyone? Employees with more autonomy, seniority, or schedule flexibility may have greater room to step back, think laterally, and develop new...

Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/ai-is-bottlenecked-by-the-grid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840620 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer's computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-looking file, but the write lands on a sensitive one instead....

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back to at...

Tracked as CVE-2026-11405, the vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to access a device's web management interface. The post Unpatched Backdoor in Tenda Firmware Grants Admin Access to Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.

If you think RAM is expensive now, try putting yourselves in the shoes of a Commodore engineer, circa 1981. RAM was eye-wateringly expensive by modern standards, and Jack Tramiel wanted 64K of the stuff for the next computer– hence the name, Commodore 64– but he...

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, one of the world’s largest investment houses, intends to massively increase its investment in AI over the next five years – both for its own use and across its portfolio. Temasek holds over $400 billion in assets and around...

Microsoft has decided to shift to annual price adjustments for its commercial cloud services, instead of its current twice-yearly changes. The software giant happily bills customers in their local currencies but always keeps those costs pegged to the price it charges...

nubia, a highly personalized and lifestyle smartphone brand, announced the launch of nubia Neo 5 GT Special Edition, the latest addition to its Neo lineup built on the belief to bring pro-level gaming to everyone. Designed for young gamers and tech-savvy Gen Z users...

The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.

Back in the 1990s IBM had a pretty sizeable presence in the PC market, including its rather spiffy Aptiva series of PCs. Naturally their PCs had to feature heavily in another consumer-related thing that was popular in the 1990s, being smart home automation in the form...