Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...

Researchers have detected attacks that compromised Bomgar appliances, many of which have reached end of life, creating problems for enterprises seeking to patch.

Your trading bot crashes at 3 AM because the forex feed went silent. Real-time currency data really shouldn't mean spe ...

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

North Korea-linked Lazarus campaign spreads malicious npm and PyPI packages via fake crypto job offers, deploying RATs and ...

Over 260,000 users installed fake AI Chrome extensions that used iframe injection to steal browser and Gmail data, exposing ...

Journalism’s contraction put pressure on even those who survived. “When the rest of the news industry is being squeezed, it ...

As tools like large language models become ubiquitous in fields ranging from software engineering to data analysis, a fundamental question emerges regarding the long-term cost of our new-found efficie ...