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PyPI makes release attestations easier to find with new security tab
The Python Package Index (PyPI) has added a security tab to its project pages, giving developers a place to check where individual release files came from. How PyPI shows …
99% of repository access tokens never expire
Developers, automated tools and AI coding agents hold permissions that can outlast the work they were granted for. Without access reviews, organizations can leave accounts …
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 …
DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that watches team chats for work
Deepseek released a research prototype of dsh-superagent, a coding agent that does work on a GitHub repository for you. Who can ask for work The agent gets to work in two …
GitHub’s npm package firewall can block brand-new versions before they install
GitHub announced a package firewall that checks npm packages against an enterprise’s policy before they install. It blocks known malware, critical vulnerabilities, and …
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 …
Anthropic finds 94 cases where open-source projects drop security controls without warning
Software can expose complex functionality to unauthenticated users even when that functionality is disabled or unnecessary. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team used Claude to …
AI coding boom exposes cracks in cloud development
Developers are encountering bugs, testing delays and disruptions in shared cloud environments as AI increases the volume of code they produce, according to LocalStack’s 2026 …
Google open-sourced TorchTPU, so PyTorch on TPUs just got a lot easier
Google released TorchTPU as open source, giving PyTorch developers a native way to run models on the company’s Tensor Processing Units. Google also announced TPU support in …
AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery
83.4% of respondents who use DevOps practices run CI/CD pipelines, making them the most widely adopted practice in that group, according to JetBrains’ The State of CI/CD in …
What makes some open source updates so difficult?
Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering …
Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful
Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to …
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