Wired

Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code

It can take years to learn how to write computer code well. SourceAI, a Paris startup, thinks programming shouldn’t be such a big deal. The company is fine-tuning a tool that uses artificial ...
Krebs on Security

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted ...
Business Wire

Intel Machine Programming Tool Detects Bugs in Code

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--What’s New: Today, Intel unveiled ControlFlag – a machine programming research system that can autonomously detect errors in code. Even in its infancy, this novel ...
Gizmodo

Pretty Much All Computer Code Can Be Hijacked by Newly Discovered ‘Trojan Source’ Exploit

A new study shows that pretty much all of the world’s computer code is vulnerable to a sneaky kind of exploit, the likes of which could (in the worst-case scenario) result in large-scale supply chain ...
The Atlantic

So Much for ‘Learn to Code’

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The New York Times

What Do Computer Code and Needlework Have in Common?

Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. By Libby Banks Reporting from Berlin Needlework and computer coding might seem to be ...