Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
Planetizen

AI promises to finally make public engagement meaningful. We put it to the test.

Everything you need to know about how we analyzed the 13,000+ comments submitted in the federal government’s request for ...
SecurityWeek

Researchers Demo New Claude Code Attack Using Harmless-Looking Repositories to Hijack Developer Machines

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.
XDA Developers on MSN

Local LLMs finally beat cloud AI for coding, automation, and brainstorming — here's which ones I use

There's always a local model that can replace your AI subscription ...

Could Codex Be The Answer To OpenAI’s Problems?

OpenAI relaunched Codex as a separate desktop app in February. ChatGPT is about to get a lot more powerful. That's because ...
Tech Times

OpenAI Silently Rolled GPT-5.6 to Some Codex Users: A Hidden Prompt Exposes the Swap

GPT-5.6 was already running in Codex for some users before OpenAI’s government-approved preview opened to partners. A ...
SlashGear

9 Best AI Tools For Coding, Ranked

If you're on the software developer side of the internet, you've probably heard the term "vibe coding" recently. Andrej Karpathy coined this phrase to reference a style of coding where artificial ...