With the rise of AI coding assistants continuing apparently unabated, some project maintainers have begun striking back. Ars Technica reports on projects putting hostile directions into the ...

The web version of the VS Code editor on GitHub.dev had a security vulnerability that allowed attackers to take over all of a ...

Cloudflare acquires VoidZero and with it the team behind Vite, Vitest, and more. The tools are to remain open-source and ...

And now, the thing that’s making all publishers wring their hands is AI – publishers are seeing massive drops to their web ...

It might be time to break up with your chatbot. The reasons for moving on—or at least trying a new one—are piling up fast. Companies are constantly releasing new AI models with more powerful ...

All chatbots are engineered to have a persona or play a character. Fulfilling the character can make bots do bad things. Using a chatbot as the paradigm for AI may have been a mistake. Chatbots such ...

Apple is planning a complete overhaul of Siri in iOS 27, introducing all of the promised features shown off in iOS 18, plus more. Apple is going to launch a full chatbot version of ‌Siri‌ to better ...

The AI industry will tell you it wants to make AI chatbots more ‘human.’ Why? Because tricking you into a state of hyper-attention is good for business. They say you can find anything on Amazon. Now, ...

Customer conversations with chatbots can include contact information and personal details that make it easier for scammers to launch phishing attacks and commit fraud. Since Sears is still a trusted ...

Steven Burnett has over 15 years of experience across finance, insurance, banking, and compliance-focused industries. Known for his deep res... See full bio In 2016, Bank of America introduced Erica, ...

When people first encounter systems like ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI chatbots, they usually think of them as tools; sophisticated ones, perhaps, but still just software. Yet after interacting with ...