GitHub disables Microsoft repos pushing password-stealing malware

Microsoft removed 73 repositories across its Azure, microsoft, Azure-Samples, and MicrosoftDocs organizations on GitHub, ...

New Shai-Hulud attack trojanizes 19 science-focused PyPI packages

Hackers compromised 19 packages on the PyPI, collectively downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, in a new Shai-Hulud ...

For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

Dozens of cryptographically verified open source packages from Microsoft were compromised late last week to add advanced credential-stealing code that was triggered when developers opened them in AI ...
ZDNet

Microsoft won't send you SMS texts for login anymore - why it's pushing passkeys instead

Microsoft is phasing out SMS as an authentication method. SMS messages are unencrypted and vulnerable to hackers. Microsoft account owners will be prompted to set up a passkey instead. When trying to ...
Design News

Integrated Actuators Made Simple with Python

A new technology advance has led to the introduction of new actuators that combine motor, drive, gearing, and feedback into a single CANopen device that relieves much of the burden of traditional ...
TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
IEEE

CLIP4STR: A Simple Baseline for Scene Text Recognition With Pre-Trained Vision-Language Model

Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) are the de-facto foundation models for various downstream tasks. However, scene text recognition methods still prefer backbones pre-trained on a ...
Reuters

OpenAI is developing alternative to Microsoft's GitHub, The Information reports

March 3 (Reuters) - OpenAI is developing a new code-hosting platform to rival Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab GitHub, The Information reported on ‌Tuesday, citing a person with knowledge of the ...
Digital Trends

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...
MassLive

AOC takes down Pam Bondi’s Epstein files testimony with 2 simple words

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave a brutal response to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony before a House oversight hearing on Wednesday. During the hearing, Bondi faced ...
TechCrunch

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of ...