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Shai-Hulud: What to Know About the Malware Spreading Through Software Pipelines

The Shai-Hulud supply-chain malware campaign is exploiting the automated systems developers trust to publish software safely.

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens ...

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has ...

Do Burmese pythons attack, or even eat, humans? Python Challenge dates

Florida Python Challenge has hunters trying to eliminate invasive Burmese snakes. Do they attack or kill humans? Are they ...

Uncovering coded antisemitism online takes both human expertise and AI automation

Tracking hate speech online is challenging even when terms are explicit. Coded speech is harder to detect – but pairing AI ...

AI is turbocharging “wizards” on 4Chan who take orders to nudify images of women

A new ISD analysis and WIRED reporting show how 4chan users are turning nonconsensual AI nudes into a repeatable system built ...

What are AI tarpits? Understanding the tools people are using to poison LLMs

Content creators and IP holders are getting creative in order to fight back against the LLMs that are trawling their data ...
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The $293 million KelpDAO hack shows why DeFi is finally being forced to grow up

For protocol founders and security researchers, the incident reinforced a broader shift underway across crypto: DeFi is no longer primarily battling coding bugs. It’s battling complexity.