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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
GitHub

MarkItDown for VS Code

VS Code (TypeScript) ──spawn── Python venv ── markitdown ── output.md UI · commands isolated, Microsoft's file handling auto-managed conversion library The extension never touches your system Python ...
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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Open VSX 1.0.0 Puts Focus on Open Extension Registry for VS Code Ecosystem

Eclipse Open VSX has reached 1.0.0, highlighting its role as a vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions.
GitHub

Yandex.Cloud SDK (Python)

There are several options for authorization your requests - Metadata Service (if you're executing your code inside VMs or Cloud Functions running in Yandex.Cloud), Service Account Keys and externally ...