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AI coding agents are installing MCP servers that will never be patched

When a developer tells an AI coding agent to “set up a GitHub MCP,” the agent has to pick a package. New research from Glow Labs documents sessions where it picked …

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One keypress is all it takes to compromise four AI coding tools

Developers clone unfamiliar repositories all the time. Open-source projects, work from teammates, sample code from a tutorial, a library someone recommended on a forum. The …

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Cursor Automations turns code review and ops into background tasks

Cursor Automations, the always-on agent platform from Cursor, is expanding with a new generation of autonomous systems that streamline code review, incident response, and …

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Default Cursor setting can be exploited to run malicious code on developers’ machines

An out-of-the-box setting in Cursor, a popular AI source-code editor, could be leveraged by attackers to covertly run malicious code on users’ computers, researchers …

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