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A new paper out of arXiv is asking a question that developers and security teams can't afford to ignore: does AI-assisted coding actually make software less secure? The research suggests that when developers lean on AI tools to write code faster, they may also be introducing vulnerabilities faster, raising serious questions about the trade-off between speed and safety in modern software development.
Shifting from code to hardware, Meta is reportedly working on not one but two new AI wearables — a pendant and a redesigned pair of smart glasses that sources say will look and feel meaningfully different from anything the company has shipped before. It signals that Meta is still betting heavily on ambient AI you wear, not just AI you type into.
And in a story that is equal parts absurd and genuinely impressive, a computer vision expert has built what he calls the ultimate mosquito killer — a machine learning system that detects mosquitoes in real time and locks a laser onto them with enough precision to take them down. It is, in the most literal sense, a targeted solution to a very old problem.
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