The Conversation

What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail

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Krebs on Security

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted ...
Science Daily

Solving 'barren plateaus' is the key to quantum machine learning

Many machine learning algorithms on quantum computers suffer from the dreaded 'barren plateau' of unsolvability, where they run into dead ends on optimization problems. Many machine learning ...
Gizmodo

Pretty Much All Computer Code Can Be Hijacked by Newly Discovered ‘Trojan Source’ Exploit

A new research paper shows that all of the world's computer code is vulnerable to one particular exploit. Seems bad. Reading time 2 minutes A new study shows that pretty much all of the world’s ...
The Atlantic

So Much for ‘Learn to Code’

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. The quickest way to ...