Apple shares iPhone and Mac post-quantum cryptography code on GitHub

Apple today published new corecrypto source code on GitHub, alongside a detailed technical post explaining the intricate work behind its post-quantum cryptography efforts.

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale

GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has ...

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP ...
VentureBeat

Three AI coding agents leaked secrets through a single prompt injection. One vendor's system card predicted it

A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Security ...
Quanta Magazine

New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...
Bleeping Computer

Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub

Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware. Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Life’s Genetic Code Requires Five Key Ingredients. The Asteroid Ryugu Has All of Them, a New Study Suggests

The asteroid Ryugu imaged by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018 JAXA / Kevin M. Gill via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that ...
The Conversation

All 5 fundamental units of life’s genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Asteroid particles offer a glimpse into the chemical ...
Ars Technica

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...
Direct Marketing News

Grocery chains are using dynamic pricing algorithms that charge more in lower-income zip codes, and most shoppers have no idea it’s happening

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. I grew up in a house where grocery shopping was strategy. My mom knew which store had cheaper produce, which one ran ...