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249 broken tasks in SWE-Bench Pro's 731-task split. Your model comparison table just lost its foundation.
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JetBrains kills its DataSpell IDE, admitting it was just PyCharm with a different label.
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The dream of declarative Postgres migrations is here. So is the nightmare of accidental data deletion.
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mise puts your languages, env vars, and tasks in one file. We checked whether 'reproducible' holds up.
uv 0.11.19 hashes every download and grows a type checker. The Python toolchain keeps collapsing into one binary.
ToolHive puts every MCP server in a container with a minimal permission profile. It shrinks the blast radius, it does not remove the bomb.
CISA leaked its own AWS keys on GitHub for six months
Cursor's new pricing: $0 for hobbyists, $200 for power users, and a calculator for everyone in between.
271 Firefox security bugs fixed with Claude Mythos Preview. 180 sec-high. Mozilla describes the dynamic change in their own words.
Shopify's River agent refuses DMs. All coding sessions run in public Slack - 100+ engineers can watch in real time.
Airbnb CEO: 60% of new code AI-generated on a regulated earnings call. Managers expected to code or use agents directly.
Amazon gave up on Q Developer internally. Claude Code and Codex are now available to all Amazon corporate engineers.
GitHub cut their agentic workflow costs by 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, pre-downloading data before agents start, and switching models. All repos are public.
IDE-native search cuts agent tail latency 16% and budget overruns a third in JetBrains' paired-delta benchmark, but wait for external replication.
Docker + Black Duck auto-suppress phantom CVE alerts with VEX
A popular Python AI gateway was weaponized in under two days. Attackers went after high-value OpenAI and AWS credentials, not profile data.
GitHub disclosed CVE-2026-3854, where the friendly git push path became the RCE door.
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Five million monthly downloads, 22 models, no attribution. The package was deleted; the wheels were not.
JetBrains sells Qodana on the IBM '100x bug cost' figure. Bossavit and Menzies already traced that citation chain back to nothing.
'Skills are not verified by GitHub.' It's npm for prompts with a formal hands-off security policy.
Opus 4.7 names authors of unpublished prose from a 125-word excerpt. Same flagship, same week as KYC.
83% of orgs plan agentic AI, 29% can secure it. Two hours in a CTF teaches more than a production breach.
AI can write the patch, but only a human signs the DCO. Torvalds points out the slop crowd won't self-report anyway.
TCP slow start gives you 14KB before the first round trip. React's empty shell blows past that before your code even loads.
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Each task gets its own fresh context window. Sounds obvious until you realize nobody else automated it.
One fake WakaTime extension on Open VSX, one Zig binary, and every VS Code-compatible editor on your machine is compromised in seconds.
Retired by GitHub on April 10, 2026 after two months in Copilot Pro+. Cause of death: 'streamlining'.
A floating semver tag in CI and a three-hour window on npm were enough for poisoned axios to reach code-signing certificates.