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Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations A high-severity flaw in Amazon's AI coding assistant for Visual Studio Code meant that opening the wrong Git repository could allow an attacker to execute code on a developer's machine and potentially hand them
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This will impact Home Assistant users and those who rely on similar third-party tools. Samsung just announced it's going to start charging for SmartThings API access, which is the company's smart home automation platform. Most of these changes impact software developers and other commercial partners, but
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Functional testing just crossed a meaningful threshold. For years, the path from manual to automated testing has demanded significant time, technical expertise, and ongoing maintenance. Automation has remained constrained to a subset of tests, while most of the coverage stays manual, slow, and increasingly unsustainable. Today, autonomous testing lets teams
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Researchers at Wiz have disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in the Amazon Q Developer extension for Visual Studio Code that could allow attackers to steal developers’ cloud credentials by luring them into opening a booby-trapped code repository. Amazon Q Developer is an AI-powered coding assistant that offers developers features such as
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Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments Oracle has promised a new phase in its custodianship of MySQL following the creation of a lobby group concerned about its future independence and long-term development. A new governance model, a new steering committee, and support for the MySQL community
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* Cobalt’s 2026 State of Pentesting Report shows confidence in fully automated AI testing collapsed from 29% in 2025 to 9% this year * 78% of respondents saw automated tools miss critical vulnerabilities; LLM flaws proved complex, with MTTR rising from 19 to 36 days and most issues left unresolved * Hybrid
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