Cursor’s AI Agent Army Experiment Explained : Hundreds of Bots Writing Code Hit Walls, Not Milestones

Hundreds of agents tried building a browser for a week, producing 1M lines of code, 1,000's of files yet missed web standards ...
Wall Street Journal

The First Large-Scale Cyberattack by AI

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/Shutterstock/M. Scott Brauer/ZUMA Press Wire A state-backed threat group, ...
Bleeping Computer

AI-Slop ransomware test sneaks on to VS Code marketplace

A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace. Named susvsex and published by ...
The New York Times

Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

Dr. Berg teaches philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. Last spring, it became clear to me that over half the students in my large general education lecture course had used artificial ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ Code

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...
The Verge

Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit series, NES, and Atari 2600. Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC ran on the same CPU that powered the Apple II, Commodore 8-bit ...
Computerworld

Bill Gates’ early BASIC code for MOS 6502 released as open source

Microsoft has released the source code for the BASIC version it developed in 1976 for the MOS 6502 processor, a central component of many early home computers, The Register reports. As far back as ...