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 ...
Tech Times

Cursor’s GitHub Rival Origin and New SpaceX Model Raise Code Custody Stakes

Cursor Origin git platform launched at Compile alongside a 1.5-trillion-parameter model in training and a new iOS app, as ...
Meduza

Russia’s internet crackdown is cutting developers off from GitHub and Python. The government’s proposed fix? A VPN controlled by the government.

Russia’s federal media regulator, Roskomnadzor, plans to create a unified “state VPN” for Russian software developers who have lost access to foreign repositories because of internet restrictions, The ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code ...
Under the Radar

Danger Mouse & Black Thought

Brian Joseph Burton, also known as Danger Mouse, has been a prominent producer for the past two decades. He began his career in hip-hop, gaining notoriety with 2003’s Ghetto Pop Life and 2004’s The ...
Popular Science

The best mixing headphones

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GitHub

SCAIL-2: Unifying Controlled Character Animation with End-to-end In-Context Conditioning

SCAIL-1 identifies the key bottlenecks that hinder character animation towards production level: how to represent the pose and how to inject the pose. However, the reliance on intermediate pose ...