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Oct 30, 2026Two serious security issues hit Cursor on the same day, highlighting the risks for AI-powered integrated development environments (IDEs). Anthropic's official Claude Code extension for the Cursor VS Code Marketplace was hijacked and swapped out for ...
Oct 30, 2026The folks behind Wikipedia say that an extreme decision in either direction could threaten the open web. We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Wikimedia Foundation has weighed in on the copyright lawsuit launched by The New ...
Oct 30, 2026Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in attacks aimed at high-value targets simultaneously. The activity has been attributed by Crow...
Oct 30, 2026A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to malware designed to install persistent SSH backdoors....
Oct 30, 2026If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden's win that November. If you ask Google's AI Mode the same question, you might get an evasi...
Oct 30, 2026Irregular evaluated Zhipu AI's open-weight model GLM-5.3 across 13 offensive cyber scenarios using CyScenarioBench, the company's framework for measuring an LLM's ability to plan and execute multistage attacks under realistic constraints. The model ...
Oct 30, 2026A tampered build of Anthropic's Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers' machines, researchers at macOS security firm Phorion have found. The company spotted the malicious package, version 2.1.313, ...
Oct 30, 2026Bedrock Data has announced AI-assisted remediation, which federates the work of fixing data exposure to the data owners across the enterprise. Bedrock Data discovers who owns each exposed dataset, opens a ticket for that owner in the Jira or ServiceN...
Oct 30, 2026Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous AI agents acting on behalf of individuals and businesses. Agentic commerce enables AI agents to open accounts, place orders, and move funds for the...
Oct 30, 2026- Published Google-owner Alphabet lost just over $500bn (£374bn) in value on Thursday after it revealed its own artificial intelligence (AI) summaries were hitting search advertising revenue. Chief business officer Philipp Schindler said Google's "...
Oct 30, 2026### Summary - Cheap vintage rotary phones make great shells for DIY projects - easy to find at flea markets or online. - Drop a Raspberry Pi and USB sound card inside to turn it into a voice AI using Google Gemini 3.8 Live. - Pick up the receiver ...
Oct 30, 2026### Summary - Claude-assisted TabStationToo ports PCSX2 to run inside a Chrome browser tab. - It runs locally, with no data uploaded; you must supply your own PS2 BIOS and ROMs. - Not identical to native PCSX2 performance, but a compelling browser...