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Cybersecurity researchers from Pillar Security this week revealed how a prompt injection inserted into a GitHub repository was used to gain Editor-level access to an internal Google Cloud project using a flaw in the command line i…
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Amazon’s recent report attributing a series of compromises of open source software libraries to a North Korea-backed threat group encapsulates many of the expanding cyber risks inc…
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A newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to explo…
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Akrites, a new Linux Foundation initiative backed by many of the world’s largest tech and financial firms, is the industry’s latest attempt to get ahead of AI‑accelerated software…
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Fresh off a historic initial public offering, SpaceX announced Tuesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere Inc., the parent company of the popular artif…
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The era of the “human-only” software engineer is rapidly receding into the rearview mirror. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed Wednesday that a whopping 75% of the company’s new cod…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or…
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The Eclipse Foundation launches a paid Open VSX Managed Registry to help industry partners sustainably fund the infrastructure behind VS Code extensions.
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OpenAI announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Astral, the startup behind some of Python community’s most popular open-source developer tools. The acquisitio…
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Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major s…
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Cognition AI late Monday emerged as the likely owner of Windsurf, the hotly contested artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup that drew months-long interest from OpenAI before…
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OpenAI’s $3 billion bid to buy artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup Windsurf crumbled late Friday, and rival Alphabet Inc.’s Google quickly picked up the pieces: The search…
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The beauty of Gemini CLI lies in its approach to solving a common developer pain point: The constant context switching between development environments and AI assistance.
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Google’s OSV-Scanner V2.0.0 brings enhanced vulnerability scanning with container support, interactive visualizations, and innovative remediation features.
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Google launches free version of Gemini Code Assist with 90x more completions than competitors, offering AI-powered coding and GitHub reviews for individuals and teams.
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Google today previewed an experimental edition of the Jules coding agent, that makes use of next-generation multimodal Gemini 2.0 models to automate coding tasks. Designed to be in…
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Google this week added a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool dubbed Gemini Cloud Assist to automate a wider range of tasks across the software development lifecycle, inclu…
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Google’s recent stumbles come at a rather inopportune time, but the concerns that made them actually address the controversy are worse than most know.
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Cycode discovered a command injection vulnerability in the way GitHub Actions updated Google’s open source Bazel project.
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The 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report from the DORA team at Google Cloud found teams with generative cultures performed better.
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In this week’s #TheLongView: Google fires hundreds of recruiters, and ARM gets a sky-high valuation.
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Google this week added automated refactoring capabilities to the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools it makes available to write code on Google Cloud.
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In this week’s #TheLongView: Google’s full-stack, browser based development environment in the cloud. Project IDX is not just a Copilot clone, but aims to help you “get an app from…
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In this week’s #TheLongView: Can the Linux desktop installed base break the mythical 10% barrier? Google has been refactoring ChromeOS, and GNOME is working on new window manager i…
