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Google AI
Google gives developers an AI bug hunter that also writes patches

Google has launched a preview of CodeMender, an AI agent built to scan code for security flaws, confirm they are exploitable, and generate fixes for developers to review. …

person
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to …

code
A forensic tool for backdoored code completions in AI assistants

Developers lean on AI coding assistants for a growing share of their daily work, letting the tools predict the next few lines and accepting many suggestions with a quick …

open source
What public money does to open-source projects

Most of the software running inside a typical company was written by volunteers the company never paid. Open-source code sits under web apps, build pipelines, and the machine …

open source
The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer

Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, …

Code
AI-generated code risks reach security, legal, and compliance teams

Most engineering organizations write code with AI, and a good number of them keep that code away from customers. A Flux survey of engineering leaders and practitioners found …

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Senior engineers are spending their week cleaning up AI-generated code

At most U.S. technology companies, machines now write the bulk of the code that ships each week. The engineer’s job has shifted toward reviewing what the AI produces, …

GitHub
Building reusable workflows with custom agents in Copilot CLI

Developers spend much of their working time in the terminal, generating commands, debugging issues, and running scripts close to their systems. Repeated terminal work tends to …

code
The security questions around Chinese AI coding models in U.S. software

Software developers across the United States are using AI models built in China to write, debug, and review code, drawn by prices below those of American alternatives. These …

GitHub
GitHub Copilot app launches as desktop home for AI coding agents

GitHub introduced the Copilot app, a desktop application built for working with AI coding agents, at Microsoft Build 2026. The release expands GitHub’s Copilot product …

leaked secrets
AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure

Code keeps moving through pipelines, and credentials continue to surface alongside it. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 puts the count at 28.65 million new hardcoded …

OpenAI
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a real-time coding model

OpenAI has released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, an ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex. It is available to ChatGPT Pro users in the latest versions …

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