Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman Was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Secrets, Saved 8,000 Lives and Pioneered Modern Cryptography

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars.
Reuters

Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says

Anthropic's Claude Code has tool that can help identify China-linked users Anthropic has accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting its AI model capabilities U.S. and China locked in frantic race to ...
SecurityWeek

Researchers Demo New Claude Code Attack Using Harmless-Looking Repositories to Hijack Developer Machines

Indirect prompts hidden in a repository can lead to Claude Code spawning a reverse shell on the developer’s machine. Attackers can take over developers’ systems by hiding indirect prompts in ...
Bleeping Computer

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human ...
EdSurge

Vibe Coding Sparked a Love of Reading in My Classroom

I have had big ideas before. Ideas that felt urgent and important at 11 p.m. and somehow evaporated by morning. So, when the idea for creating an AI-powered reading recommendation system to generate ...
TechCrunch

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

Last Friday, citing unspecified national security concerns, the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict the export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside of the United States, ...
IEEE

Image Encryption via Sliding Mode Synchronization of Fractional-Order Quaternion-Valued T–S Fuzzy Neural Networks With Uncertain Parameters

Abstract: This article explores the sliding mode synchronization issue in a fractional-order quaternion-valued Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy neural network model with parametric uncertainty using a ...
IEEE

DeepKey-TPE: Using Deep Learning to Generate Key for Image Security With Continued Usability Through Thumbnail-Preserving Encryption

Abstract: Recently, digital images are the most important information carrier of data obtained from consumer devices, thus playing a vital role in various potential applications. Despite benefits of ...