Slopsquatting: One in five AI code snippets contains fake libraries

Security researchers have identified a new potential threat to software supply chains stemming from AI-generated code through a technique called "slopsquatting."<br /> The article Slop [...]

Artificial Analysis overhauls its AI Intelligence Index, replacing popular benchmarks with 'real-world' tests

The arms race to build smarter AI models has a measurement problem: the tests used to rank them are becoming obsolete almost as quickly as the models improve. On Monday, Artificial Analysis, an indepe [...]

Striking the Balance: Global Approaches to Mitigating AI-Related Risks

It’s no secret that for the last few years, modern technologies have been pushing ethical boundaries under existing legal frameworks that weren’t made to fit them, resulting in legal and regulator [...]

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a [...]

How recruitment fraud turned cloud IAM into a $2 billion attack surface

A developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud credentials from the developerâ [...]

Musk's xAI launches Grok 4.1 with lower hallucination rate on the web and apps — no API access (for now)

In what appeared to be a bid to soak up some of Google's limelight prior to the launch of its new Gemini 3 flagship AI model — now recorded as the most powerful LLM in the world by multiple ind [...]

"Slopsquatting" attacks are using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries to spread malware

AI doesn't always hallucinate a different open source package, and this error can be mapped out and used in attacks. [...]

The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2025

Around ten years ago, as the price of cable rose to untenable heights, live TV streaming services arrived as the low-cost, contract-free antidote. The services are still blissfully easy to walk away f [...]

Lean4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In high- [...]