After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

The reason for this is Snap – a Linux application packaging format – creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, ...
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GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop

Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away updated GitHub, the Microsoft code-hosting shop that ...
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The photos tell the story: This Burmese python caught in Florida is huge

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...