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 ...
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 ...
techtimes

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

DeepReinforce today released Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source coding models built around a mechanism most RL-trained agents avoid: the model itself writes the training harness that guides its own ...
CSO Online

Be on the lookout for Mistic, a new backdoor used by ransomware broker

The malware program has been deployed across multiple sectors since April, helping to provide initial access sold to ransomware gangs.