GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash(theregister.com)

499 points by _____k 6 months ago | 290 comments

The Register article reporting GitHub removed Copilot's ability to insert promotional "tips" into pull requests after developer backlash.

HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'(theregister.com)

367 points by terminalbraid 6 months ago | 193 comments

The Register article reporting that Mitchell Hashimoto plans to move the Ghostty terminal emulator off GitHub, citing frequent outages that make it unfit for serious work.

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down(theregister.com)

59 points by ndsipa_pomu 5 months ago | 44 comments

Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers(theregister.com)

39 points by userbinator 1 year ago | 8 comments

Mozilla Firefox's extension store being flooded with malware(theregister.com)

54 points by lknik 1 year ago | 15 comments

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet(theregister.com)

53 points by rustoo 6 months ago | 30 comments

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign(anthropic.com)

341 points by koakuma-chan 11 months ago | 261 comments

Anthropic news post describing how it detected and disrupted a cyber espionage campaign largely orchestrated using its Claude AI model, with a linked full report.

Zenbleed(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)

1160 points by loeg 3 years ago | 327 comments

Tavis Ormandy's writeup of Zenbleed, an AMD Zen 2 CPU vulnerability that leaks data from vector registers, covering exploitation, discovery, and mitigation.

Downfall Attacks(downfall.page)

1207 points by WalterSobchak 3 years ago | 306 comments

Website describing Downfall, a CPU vulnerability affecting billions of modern processors, with attack details, demo, FAQ, and vendor advisories.

AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU(github.com)

450 points by dbreunig 2 years ago | 257 comments

GitHub repository from Useful Sensors with code to run and benchmark matrix-multiplication models on Qualcomm NPUs in Windows PCs, comparing them against the CPU and Nvidia GPUs.

Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier(krebsonsecurity.com)

329 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 183 comments

KrebsOnSecurity investigation suggesting the hacker Kiberphant0m, linked to Snowflake customer data extortions, may be a U.S. Army soldier stationed in South Korea.

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report(cnn.com)

391 points by realsarm 1 month ago | 306 comments

CNN report on a US military near-incident after an AI system produced a hallucinated intelligence report, reportedly involving a Chinese ship.