Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...

In Test: Elixir's 1.20 New Intelligent Type System

Report do def user_age_to_string(user) do Integer.to_string(user.age) end end # An anderer Stelle im Projekt: Report.user_age_to_string(%{age: "42"}) Integer.to_string/1 is Elixir's usual notation for ...

New technique sharpens predictions of metal alloy behavior by capturing subtle atomic patterns

Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve ...

Astrochemical model digs into the universe's missing sulfur

Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. If you peer into a diffuse interstellar cloud, you find loads of it—about the amount expected based on fusion patterns in the stars it was ...
GitHub

lenucksi/aur-malware-check

Detection and analysis tools for the atomic-lockfile supply-chain attack on the Arch User Repository (AUR), generalized to a campaign-based architecture that handles multiple concurrent and historical ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...
New Scientist

Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in the race to usefulness

The race to build the first truly useful quantum computer just got more exciting. A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms has now passed some of the most important milestones towards ...