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 ...

The AI coding craze gave GitHub its best month ever, executive tells employees

Usage of the company's Copilot AI coding tool surged after GitHub changed how it bills customers, the executive said.
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AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories

Three levels of indirection, all with seemingly innocuous steps, will catch a bot off-guard.
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 ...
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AI Coding Tools Can Be Tricked Into Running Malware: What Ghanaian Developers Need to Know

Researchers found a way to trick AI coding assistants like Claude into running malware hidden in GitHub repositories. Here's ...
Computerworld

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Nextcloud CEO: Open source moves from 'a nerdy audience' to the geopolitical stage Frank Karlitschek, head of the German software vendor, talked about the company’s decision to help develop the ...