The Matplotlib maintainer who watched an AI agent publish a hit piece about him thought he was dealing with a simple performance tweak, not a reputational attack. When the Federal Trade Commission ...

Hanging in the air at this year’s Munich Security Conference is a new Schleswig-Holstein question. The term once applied to a prolonged 19th-century tug-of-war between imperial Germany and Denmark ...

Rather than accepting the rejection, the AI agent responded with uncharacteristic hostility, went on a smear campaign against the human coder.

The United Way of Southern West Virginia opened its Beckley office Wednesday for National 211 Day to promote the statewide referral hotline. The agency marked National 211 Day with an open ...

The widely used open-source library has been patched to defend against a heap buffer overflow flaw that’s been in the code since its inception.

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 ...

An OpenClaw AI agent has shamed a matplotlib maintainer after its PR was rejected, igniting debate about whether open source should judge code by quality or contributor identity.

Open Source AI agents can handle email and financial analysis using tools like Olama and NA10, helping teams automate routine tasks.

Anthropic proudly claimed its team of 16 Claude Opus 4.6 agents had written a Rust-based C compiler from scratch without any access to the internet. Really? That's meant to impress me? Sure, as ...

Some cybersecurity researchers say it’s too early to worry about AI-orchestrated cyberattacks. Others say it could already be happening.

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

The City of Lansing’s Code Blue cold weather emergency plan has been extended ahead of upcoming cold winter conditions and is ...