Microsoft

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

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

Writing is an exercise in the art of persuasion. If we use AI we lose the art

Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AI A few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an ...
The Guardian

Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’

Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news ...
Electronic Design

Writing Software Right the First Time

Why it’s important to prevent bugs from making it into the wild. How AI is helping and hindering software development. How programming languages like Rust, Ada, and SPARK help when developing ...
The Atlantic

AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing

Steven Rosenbaum has decided that the real villain behind the bogus quotes in his book is a chatbot. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed ...
Forbes

AI Will Write The Software. The Winners Will Build Rightware

The moment a car can drive itself, the driver ceases to be the center of the system. The road becomes the product: lane markings, maps, signals, guardrails and rules for what to do when the unexpected ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard College Adds Required AI Module to Expository Writing Curriculum

All Harvard College freshmen enrolled in expository writing courses were required to complete a three-part training module on artificial intelligence this semester, the first time the training has ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right

T ell a roomful of academics that you use AI in your writing and watch what happens. A few will nod. Most will go quiet in that particular way that means they’re embarrassed on your behalf. Someone ...
The Boston Globe

Colleges ban generative AI in writing classes. My classmates use it anyway.

Looking for workarounds in required writing courses is nothing new for college students. Those trying to avoid writing essays and reports could always buy them. It was expensive and risky: Would the ...
Christianity Today

To Write Well Is Human

Using AI to write is a disordered and deforming means of fulfilling a good desire. The church must offer something better. A major publisher recently pulled a new novel for a novel reason: a strong ...
TheWrap

Paramount Writers Mentoring Program Opens Applications, Joins With Nickelodeon | Exclusive

Applications are now open for Paramount’s writing mentorship program, which will now join with Nickelodeon, TheWrap can reveal exclusively. Aspiring TV writers can now apply for the next cycle of the ...