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 ...

Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

Z.ai has launched ZCode, a free AI coding tool powered by GLM-5.2 that challenges Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot ...
Hackaday

gesture control

How many times do you have to forget your keys before you start hacking on the problem? For [Binh], the answer was 5 in the last month, and his hack was to make a gesture-based door unlocker. Which ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
Tech Xplore

Mouse moves unlock realistic AI video control with no extra computing cost

A technology developed at the Technion enables ordinary users to create realistic video clips intuitively, without the need ...
MacRumors

watchOS 27 Features Dynamic App Grid, New Gesture Control, and More

Apple today unveiled watchOS 27, featuring a redesigned dynamic app grid, new gesture controls, and a raft of usability and battery improvements. The new dynamic app grid surfaces and rearranges five ...
MacTech

Apple files for another patent involving using gestures to control devices

Apple has been filed for another patent — one of dozens — for a “system and method of controlling devices using motion gestures.” In the patent filing the tech giant notes that user interaction with ...
Meduza

Russia’s internet crackdown is cutting developers off from GitHub and Python. The government’s proposed fix? A VPN controlled by the government.

Russia’s federal media regulator, Roskomnadzor, plans to create a unified “state VPN” for Russian software developers who have lost access to foreign repositories because of internet restrictions, The ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code ...
Under the Radar

Danger Mouse & Black Thought

Brian Joseph Burton, also known as Danger Mouse, has been a prominent producer for the past two decades. He began his career in hip-hop, gaining notoriety with 2003’s Ghetto Pop Life and 2004’s The ...
The New York Times

FIFA clears referee accused of making ‘White power’ gesture after he calls it ‘involuntary twitch’

Shaun Evans made a gesture during a game broadcast that was interpreted by some as symbolising White power, which he has now denied. Brendon Thorne / Getty Images FIFA has cleared the referee at the ...