Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
thetechedvocate.org

How to access phpMyAdmin in cPanel

phpMyAdmin is an open-source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB. It is written in PHP and provides a user-friendly web interface that allows users to perform various database operations. From ...
The Atlantic

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

A few weeks ago, where I live in Johannesburg, a man ran a stop sign and crashed into my Subaru. At the scene he was frantic, unable to gather his thoughts. Half an hour later, I received a lengthy, ...
IGN

Seth Rogen Tells Filmmakers Using AI to Write Scripts to 'Go Do Something Else'

Seth Rogen has pushed back on the use of AI in movies, telling writers using the technology for their scripts to "go do something else." "I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see ...
Variety

Seth Rogen Says if You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.” “I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
TechSpot

The Oscars just declared that AI actors and AI-written scripts can't win awards

A hot potato: With generative AI becoming more prevalent in society, are we heading toward a future where an AI-created actor or script wins an Oscar? If it does ever happen, it certainly won't be ...
New Scientist

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...
Hacker

A Long Story About How I Dug Into the PostgreSQL Source Code to Write my Own WAL Receiver

Your browser does not support the audio element. From the outside, it sounds almost innocent. Really, what could possibly be wrong with that? Just ordinary ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...