When you're trying to get the best performance out of Python, most developers immediately jump to complex algorithmic fixes, using C extensions, or obsessively running profiling tools. However, one of ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...

A fake $TEMU crypto airdrop uses the ClickFix trick to make victims run malware themselves and quietly installs a remote-access backdoor.

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

Today is Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 79 flaws, including 2 publicly disclosed zero-day ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

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BlackBox AI, a popular VS Code coding assistant, has a critical indirect prompt injection vulnerability. Hackers can exploit this to gain remote root access to a user’s computer.

Malicious AI browser extensions posing as helpful assistants harvested ChatGPT and DeepSeek chat data from nearly 900,000 users, Microsoft says.

Meta is rolling out a dedicated shopping research mode inside its Meta AI web chatbot for a slice of US desktop users. Search ...