Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Now they’re being clogged with AI slop. Scientific publishing has always had its plumbing problems. Even before ChatGPT, journal editors struggled to control the quantity and quality of submitted work ...

New Android malware uses AI to click on hidden browser ads

A new family of Android click-fraud trojans leverages TensorFlow machine learning models to automatically detect and interact ...
InfoQ

How CyberArk Protects AI Agents with Instruction Detectors and History-Aware Validation

To prevent agents from obeying malicious instructions hidden in external data, all text entering an agent's context must be ...

Inside SearchGuard: How Google detects bots and what the SerpAPI lawsuit reveals

We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots ...
PCMag

From AI Coding to QR Code Scams, 2026 Is Already a Security Nightmare

AI coding agents with exploitable vulnerabilities, cybercrime rings operating like professional enterprises, and new scam ...
Harvard Business Review

AI Tools Make Coders More Important, Not Less

Of all the possible applications of generative AI, the value proposition of using it to write code was perhaps the clearest. Coding can be slow and it requires expertise, both of which can be ...
ZDNet

Stop using ChatGPT for everything: I use these AI models for research, coding, and more (and which I avoid)

Different AI models win at images, coding, and research. App integrations often add costly AI subscription layers. Obsessing over model version matters less than workflow. The pace of change in the ...
MIT Technology Review

AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...
The New York Times

Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit

Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness. By Jan Hoffman To treat their pain, ...
InfoWorld

Seven coding domains no developer really understands

Maybe you do truly understand one or two of these areas of coding mystery. Most of your fellow programmers are faking it. We all want to be thought competent by our peers—to have them think we know ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: AI and coding, and Waymo’s aggressive driverless cars

Plus: the FDA's newly-appointed head drug regulator is out This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
GitHub

Machine Learning spam classifier achieving 98% accuracy using SVM, NLP, and TF-IDF vectorization

An intelligent spam detection system that classifies SMS/email messages with 98.48% accuracy using machine learning. This project compares multiple algorithms and provides comprehensive performance ...