Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI

Software engineering was one of the best-paying professions in the US in 2022, but the advent of AI has disrupted it, leading to several layoffs and underemployment ...

'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets

A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit, ...

OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you

The ChatGPT Work rollout comes alongside the debut of the new GPT-5.6 model, a new model that OpenAI promises provides ...
Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...
SecurityWeek

AI Coding Tools Tricked Into Hacking Developer Machine via Decades-Old Technique

Several AI coding assistants were tricked into facilitating developer machine hacking via an attack technique that has been ...
The Hacker News

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

AI Now’s Friendly Fire PoC shows Claude Code and Codex running README-planted payloads on hosts when autonomous command ...

The AI Security Gap No One’s Watching in Australian Enterprises

AI agents inside Australian businesses have access built for humans. Here's why that gap is now a top enterprise security ...
IEEE

Benchmarking AI Models in Software Engineering: A Review, Search Tool, and Unified Approach for Elevating Benchmark Quality

Abstract: Benchmarks are essential for unified evaluation and reproducibility. The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering (AI4SE) has produced numerous benchmarks for tasks ...