Microsoft

From package to postinstall payload: Inside the Mastra npm supply chain compromise

A poisoned npm package infected 140+ projects with a hidden payload. This report highlights how to detect, hunt, and defend ...

I've reviewed every PDF editor out there - then I had ChatGPT build me a better one

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it interact with your files, but asking it to write software that handles them ...
The Tech Edvocate

How to run Python script

Essential Ways to Run a Python Script Python is one of the most popular programming languages today, widely praised for its simplicity and versatility. Whether you’re a beginner dipping your toes into ...
Ars Technica

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and ...
Metro

Heartstopping moment families watch acrobat’s rope snap during high wire act at Butlin’s

Parents and children watched on in horror as an acrobat plummeted to the ground when a rope snapped during a high-wire act. Holidaymakers at Butlin’s Bognor Regis resort were left shocked after the ...
IGN

Seth Rogen Tells Filmmakers Using AI to Write Scripts to 'Go Do Something Else'

Seth Rogen has pushed back on the use of AI in movies, telling writers using the technology for their scripts to "go do something else." "I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
Inverse

AI Is Permanently Banned From Major Oscar Categories

Hollywood’s biggest stars, alongside its most powerful studios, are leaning hard on the idea that AI integration is inevitable. Actors like Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock claim we’re all but ...
TechCrunch

AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...
The Verge

Attack of the killer script kiddies

Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge ...
CSOonline

Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months

Adobe Reader vulnerabilities have been exploited for decades by threat actors taking advantage of the universal use of the utility to fool employees into downloading infected PDF documents through ...