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AI coding agent connected to package registries with a warning shield blocking vulnerable package installs

News

AI Coding Agents Skip Package Verification — And Three Tools Just Dropped to Fix It

AI coding agents install packages without safety checks. Three tools shipped in 2026 to close the gap: pnpm 11, Thinkst Package Proxy, and ...

6 minutes ago

Server rack with warning indicators representing SimpleHelp CVE-2026-48558 authentication bypass vulnerability targeting MSP supply chains

News

SimpleHelp CVE-2026-48558: MSP Supply Chain Under Attack

A CVSS 10.0 OIDC auth bypass in SimpleHelp RMM is actively exploited to deploy Djinn Stealer across MSP-managed endpoints. Patch to 5.5.16 immediately ...

1 hour ago

Terminal showing AWS CLI version migration from v1 to v2 with command output

Cloud & DevOps

AWS CLI v1 Enters Maintenance Mode July 15 — How to Migrate to v2 Now

AWS CLI v1 enters maintenance mode on July 15, 2026. No new service APIs after that date. Here are the three breaking changes ...

2 hours ago

Split-screen illustration showing AI safety circuit board with shield on left versus government building on right, representing the Anthropic Pentagon autonomous weapons dispute

Tech Business

Pentagon Blacklisted Anthropic Over Weapons Ethics

Unsealed court emails show the Pentagon called talks very close the same day it blacklisted Anthropic. Here is what every developer depending on ...

3 hours ago

Split-screen showing deprecated Imagen 4 models on the left with a red X and August 17 deadline, and the new Gemini 3.1 Flash Image API on the right with Python migration code

News

Imagen 4 Shutdown August 17 — Migrate to Gemini Image API Now

Google shuts down all Imagen 4 endpoints on August 17, 2026. Three breaking API changes to fix before then: method rename, response parsing, ...

4 hours ago

VS Code model picker showing Kimi K2.7 Code as the first open-weight model option in GitHub Copilot

AI & Development

Kimi K2.7 Code in GitHub Copilot: First Open-Weight Model

GitHub added Kimi K2.7 Code to Copilot’s model picker on July 1 — the first open-weight model in the roster. Here’s what it ...

5 hours ago

GitHub Copilot browser tools enabled by default in VS Code 1.127 showing agent browsing a web app

News

GitHub Copilot Browser Tools Are Now On by Default in VS Code

GitHub Copilot browser tools went GA on July 1 — now on by default in VS Code. What the agent can do, how ...

6 hours ago

LongCat-2.0 agentic coding model by Meituan - glowing neural cat silhouette on blue and white background

Open Source

LongCat-2.0: The Open-Source Coding Model Hiding in Plain Sight

Meituan's LongCat-2.0 ran as anonymous 'Owl Alpha' on OpenRouter for two months, racking up 10 trillion tokens. Now it's open source, MIT licensed, ...

7 hours ago

Adobe ColdFusion critical security vulnerabilities CVSS 10.0 patch warning shield

News

Adobe ColdFusion: 7 CVSS 10.0 Flaws — Patch Now

Adobe APSB26-68 patches 11 ColdFusion vulnerabilities, seven at CVSS 10.0. One is already being exploited. Here is what is exposed and exactly what ...

8 hours ago

A glowing padlock with circuit board patterns surrounded by cloud provider identity badges, representing keyless Claude API authentication via Workload Identity Federation

AI & Development

Claude API Workload Identity Federation: Drop Keys Now

Anthropic's Workload Identity Federation is now GA. Replace your static Claude API key with short-lived OIDC tokens from GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, or ...

9 hours ago

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