Fake CAPTCHA attacks spiked by 563% last year: How to spot them before it's too late

Fake CAPTCHA attacks spiked by 563% last year: How to spot them before it's too late ...

Scanning That QR Code Can Leave You Vulnerable. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

But QR codes can also leave you vulnerable. That’s because scammers, organized criminal gangs, and shady nation-states are ...
The Register on MSN

Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts

Rapid7 says crims broke into more than 250 sites globally, including a US Senate candidate’s campaign page Cyber baddies quietly compromised legitimate WordPress websites, including the campaign site ...
Ars Technica

Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 ...
The New York Times

This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...
The Verge

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally.
VentureBeat

Claude Code just got updated with one of the most-requested user features

Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external tools in a structured, reliable format ...
blockchain

AI Code Snippet Techniques: Practical Examples from Jeff Dean for Developers

According to Jeff Dean on Twitter, sharing specific small snippets of code can effectively demonstrate AI techniques, providing developers with practical and actionable examples to accelerate AI ...
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 ...
VentureBeat

Amazon's new AI can code for days without human help. What does that mean for software engineers?

Amazon Web Services has announced a new class of AI systems," frontier agents," that can work autonomously for hours, even days, without human intervention, representing one of the most ambitious ...
IEEE

Defensive Adversarial CAPTCHA: A Semantics-Driven Framework for Natural Adversarial Example Generation

Abstract: Traditional CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) schemes are increasingly vulnerable to automated attacks powered by deep neural networks ...
USA Today

FIFA World Cup tickets issue due to 'captcha' error has fans fuming

This is one where I can commiserate with you, soccer fans: I was one of the lucky ones who got into the FIFA World Cup ticket lottery and won a chance to buy some tickets for the 2026 event in North ...