The Hacker News

New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware

Researchers show HalluSquatting can make AI coding agents fetch fake repositories or skills and run attacker-supplied code.

AI Coding Is Starting To Feel Like A Gamble

AI can help teams move faster, but speed alone does not solve the harder problem of understanding what has actually been ...

AI trade war heats up: China warns of 'security backdoor' in Anthropic's Claude Code

China’s National Vulnerability Database said the suspected vulnerability could allow the transfer of data, such as user ...
The Hacker News

GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code | Read more hacking news on The Hacker News ...

Sber unveils GigaChat 3.5 Ultra: the model writes code better, handles agent-based tasks, and works with long texts

GigaChat 3.5 Ultra is available to users free of charge in the GigaChat AI assistant and in open source for all ...

Code Puppy: Walmart's secret weapon against AI lock-in

Walmart's viral Code Puppy AI tool helps avoid vendor lock-in, cut costs, and reduce dependence on Claude Code and Codex.
InfoWorld

Best practices for using AI to generate C# code

AI can generate C# code far faster than you can fix it. Follow these best practices to ensure that your AI-generated C# is ...
PC World

Claude Code goes hands-free with voice commands, now rolling out

PCWorld reports that Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant now features voice mode, allowing developers to control the coding tool through verbal commands. Currently rolling out to 5% of users with ...
Decrypt

Anthropic Removes Hidden Claude Code Tracker After Researchers Raise Privacy Concerns

Anthropic says the tool was designed to stop abuse and AI model extraction, but critics questioned the use of undisclosed ...
Morningstar

Salt Security launches Salt Code, the first agentic security solution to enforce security policies inside AI coding assistants

The first solution that enforces security policy inside every AI coding assistant your developers use. Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Codex and Gemini CLI now generate policy-compliant code ...
The Next Web

Roblox gives its AI assistant the ability to plan, build, and test games on its own

In short: Roblox is upgrading its built-in AI assistant with agentic capabilities including a planning mode that analyses game code before proposing action plans, procedural 3D model generation, mesh ...