Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with running a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that is ...

Can Time Flow in Reverse? A Quantum Breakthrough Challenges Our Assumptions

The Laboratory team’s quantum “demon” uses information about a quantum system’s state and measurement results to drive similarly unusual processes, reversing the usual arrow of time in a quantum ...
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“How to Think About AI”: Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More

Democracy Now! speaks with science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow about AI and his latest book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial ...

BYOK is my new go-to distraction-free writing tool

I have long been on the hunt for the perfect distraction-free writing setup. The latest contender is BYOK, which stands for ...
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Your Excel formulas don't have to be unreadable — here's the one function that fixes them

In 2021, after catching the tech bug as a kid and earning a degree in communications, Ada got into tech writing by editing crypto guides. Ada's expertise now spans Windows, Android (especially Samsung ...