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GeneralRe: The International Space Station will soon be retired, but a replacement likely won’t come from NASA Pin
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GeneralRe: The International Space Station will soon be retired, but a replacement likely won’t come from NASA Pin
Kent Sharkey26-Aug-21 6:58
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GeneralRe: The International Space Station will soon be retired, but a replacement likely won’t come from NASA Pin
kalberts26-Aug-21 7:51
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NewsGoogle and Microsoft promise billions to help bolster US cybersecurity Pin
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NewsGitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study Pin
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GeneralRe: GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study Pin
Jon McKee25-Aug-21 12:24
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At the same time, copying and pasting code examples from Stack Overflow looks significantly less risky than asking Copilot for guidance. In a 2019 paper [PDF], "An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples," analysis of 72,483 C++ code snippets reused in at least one GitHub project found only 99 vulnerable examples representing 31 different types of vulnerabilities.


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GeneralRe: GitHub's Copilot may steer you into dangerous waters about 40% of the time – study Pin
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NewsLinux turns 30: ​Linus Torvalds on his "just a hobby" operating system Pin
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NewsMath can, in theory, help you escape a hungry bear Pin
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NewsAI makes strangely accurate predictions from blurry medical scans, alarming researchers Pin
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NewsBuild verified code with F* Pin
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