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Hackers are using AI to find software bugs - but there is a downside

Artificial intelligence models similar to ChatGPT are able to identify errors in computer code, letting people claim rewards for finding them - but others are using the same tools to report bugs that don't actually exist

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Hundreds of Russia's top software developers may have left the country

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Curiosity Mars rover gets 50 per cent speed boost from software update

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DeepMind has made software-writing AI that rivals average human coder

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GitHub's AI programming assistant can introduce security flaws

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GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission

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Reading about Firefox makes it seem a faster web browser than Chrome

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World’s most essential open-source code to be stored in Arctic vault

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Stalkerware: The secret apps people use to spy on their partners

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A classical concert at the Barbican shows how AI interprets a recital

Sight Machine, an AI project at the Barbican, shows how the algorithms used in techniques like facial detection capture the performance of a string quartet

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I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move

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Working hypothesis: From deepfake Dali to black toothpaste

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Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality

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The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster

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