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 ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Actions hardens checkout security to block ‘pwn request’ attacks

After years of trying to educate developers to use pull_request_target securely, the platform finally implements stronger ...
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
Nature

What is the expectation maximization algorithm?

Probabilistic models, such as hidden Markov models or Bayesian networks, are commonly used to model biological data. Much of their popularity can be attributed to the existence of efficient and robust ...
Investopedia

Matching Orders in Trading: Processes, Algorithms, and Examples

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Get personalized, AI-powered answers built on 27+ years of trusted expertise.
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AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories

Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.
Nature

Learning algorithms articles from across Nature Portfolio

A learning algorithm is a mathematical framework or procedure that calculates the best output given a particular set of data. It does this by updating the calculation based on the difference between ...
Harvard Business Review

Competing in the Age of AI

How machine intelligence changes the rules of business by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani In 2019, just five years after the Ant Financial Services Group was launched, the number of consumers using ...