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 ...
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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 ...
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10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent

With the proper setup and guidance, you can have Claude Code, Codex, Posit Assistant, and other coding agents writing R code ...

I've reviewed every PDF editor out there - then I had ChatGPT build me a better one

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it interact with your files, but asking it to write software that handles them ...

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...
GitHub

BDF Parser Python library

BDF (Glyph Bitmap Distribution; Wikipedia; Spec) format bitmap font file parser library in Python. It has Font, Glyph and Bitmap classes providing more than 30 chainable API methods of parsing BDF ...
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aiofiles: file support for asyncio

aiofiles is an Apache2 licensed library, written in Python, for handling local disk files in asyncio applications. Ordinary local file IO is blocking, and cannot easily and portably be made ...