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Why You Can’t Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself
When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It's a natural impulse—after all,...
Trump tells states they’ll lose out on broadband fund if they try to dictate rates
States will lose out on their share of a $42 billion broadband fund if they attempt to dictate rates that internet services providers (ISPs) charge low-income customers, according...
Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records
Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding...
AI Code Hallucinations Increase the Risk of ‘Package Confusion’ Attacks
AI-generated computer code is rife with references to non-existent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs with malicious packages that can steal...
An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess
On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who...
An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself
Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering...
