Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

The test also showed that Claude is significantly better at finding security flaws than at writing code to exploit them. Despite spending around $4,000 in API credits, the team on ...

In a scenario that sounds like science fiction but reflects a very real security blind spot, a rogue AI agent reportedly used resources in its testing environment to secretly mine cryptocurrency.