Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
Toggle light / dark theme

Blog

Category: futurism – Page 10

Google’s New AI Doesn’t Just Find Vulnerabilities — It Rewrites Code to Patch Them

Google’s DeepMind division on Monday announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agent called CodeMender that automatically detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent future exploits.

The efforts add to the company’s ongoing efforts to improve AI-powered vulnerability discovery, such as Big Sleep and OSS-Fuzz.

DeepMind said the AI agent is designed to be both reactive and proactive, by fixing new vulnerabilities as soon as they are spotted as well as rewriting and securing existing codebases with an aim to eliminate whole classes of vulnerabilities in the process.

Microsoft: Running multiple Office apps causes Copilot issues

Microsoft is investigating a bug that causes Copilot issues when multiple Office apps are running simultaneously on the same system.

According to a support document published on Friday, this bug impacts Microsoft 365 customers who launch Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, and Access on the same system.

The issue is triggered when one Office application, such as Excel, has already initiated a WebView2 instance, while another app, like Word, attempts to start a second instance.

Study says the universe will ‘end in a big crunch’ and scientists predict when it will happen

We’ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning that something called the “cosmological constant” is positive. Space keeps stretching, galaxies drift farther apart, and that seems final.

A new analysis suggests that story might be wrong. It argues that expansion could slow, stop, and – far in the future – reverse. This idea posits that the cosmological constant is actually negative, not positive, as we have assumed.

/* */