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AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects
The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running …
VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process
Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that …
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 …
Most teams will ship AI-written infrastructure code with little review
AI-assisted development has settled into everyday practice across software organizations, and developers using it move from idea to working code in hours. That code does not …
GitHub releases an open dataset for multilingual developer content
Developers coordinate code across README files, issue threads, and pull request discussions. Much of that exchange happens in English, and a large share happens in other …
Microsoft’s WinUI agent plugin trims token use by over 70% during development
Microsoft published a plugin on May 13 that lets GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code drive the full WinUI 3 development cycle, from project scaffolding through signed MSIX …
HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks
Open-source dependencies make up a large percentage of the code in production applications, and most vulnerability checks still run late in the pipeline, inside CI/CD systems …
Node.js 26 ships with Temporal API enabled by default
Developers managing JavaScript runtimes have a new major version to evaluate. Node.js 26.0.0 brings the long-awaited Temporal API to the platform alongside an updated V8 …
Visual Studio Code 1.118 adds auto model selection to Copilot CLI
Microsoft’s editor releases continue on a monthly cadence, with the Insiders build of Visual Studio Code 1.118. The update concentrates on the Copilot CLI integration, …
Visual Studio cloud agents now run inside GitHub Copilot
Microsoft’s April update to Visual Studio introduces cloud agent integration in GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to offload tasks to remote infrastructure for scalable, …
AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes
Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities …
Fake Claude Code install pages highlight rise of “InstallFix” attacks
Users looking for Anthropic’s Claude Code agentic AI coding tool are being tricked via fake Claude Code install pages into running malware, Push Security researchers …
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