The head of Claude Code hasn’t written a line of code by hand in 8 months

Boris Cherny was asked at Brainstorm Tech if he was concerned about the rapid progress of AI: "Yes." ...
The Hacker News

Popular WordPress Plugin Scripts Tampered to Plant Hidden Backdoors on Sites

Tampered JavaScript in three Awesome Motive plugins exposed WordPress sites to rogue admin accounts and hidden backdoors.

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

Usage with any "AI" agent is strongly discouraged. Jqwik's log output may confuse the agent. Naturally, this sort of ...

Microsoft June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 6 zero-days, 200 flaws

Today is Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 200 flaws, including five publicly disclosed zero-day ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Attackers Hijack Popular WordPress Plugins to Deploy Backdoors

Attackers have hijacked the code behind several popular WordPress plugins to plant hidden backdoors and rogue administrator ...
techtimes

Xiaomi MiMo Code Claims to Beat Claude Code: Benchmark Scores Are Self-Reported

Xiaomi released MiMo Code V0.1.0 on June 10, 2026 — a terminal-native coding agent built on a fork of the open-source OpenCode project, bundled with free access to Xiaomi's own 1-trillion-parameter ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Alumnus Injured in Car Incident Banned From Campus, Alleges CUPD Officer Entered Residence Without Permission or Warrant

Aiden Vallecillo ’26, whose foot was run over in the April 30 car incident involving President Kotlikoff and a group of ...
Tech Times

npm v12 Security Overhaul Blocks Install Scripts by Default: July Deadline for CI Migration

July 2026, blocking install scripts, Git dependencies, and remote URL sources by default. Every team running npm install in ...

npm tackles its riskiest security issues

With npm v12, GitHub closes a central attack vector: installation scripts from dependencies will only run after explicit ...

I let Claude audit my messy Home Assistant setup, and it was a massive wake-up call

I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have ...

VAR official says hand gesture was 'involuntary, subconscious twitch'

Video assistant referee Shaun Evans has denied "intentionally" making a hand gesture "to communicate a message, affiliation, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Using Local AI to Cut Copilot Usage-Based Billing Shock

After being gobsmacked by the new billing plan using almost all my monthly credits in one or two days, I tried pushing some Copilot-style coding work onto local models in VS Code. What I found was ...