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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cars and Horsepower

GM’s Secret Plan: How Your Next Car Will Nickel-and-Dime You For Features It Already Has

When General Motors CEO Mary Barra casually noted that software-enabled features were seeing "subscription take rates exceeding expectations" during the Q1 2025 earnings call, it sounded like a bland ...
CNET

How to Transfer Chatbot Memory to and From Claude

Unlike most AI chatbots out there, Claude allows you to easily transfer memories and previous conversations. Options like ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SciTech Daily

Scientists Turn Seawater Into Drinking Water Without Toxic Brine

Vials of seawater, Great Salt Lake water, nickel sulfate, copper chloride wastewater, and desalinated water, along with recovered salts show how a new approach developed by URochester researchers ...
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 ...