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Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

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An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

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Over 260,000 users installed fake AI Chrome extensions that used iframe injection to steal browser and Gmail data, exposing ...

As tools like large language models become ubiquitous in fields ranging from software engineering to data analysis, a fundamental question emerges regarding the long-term cost of our new-found efficie ...

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