Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
Memeburn

Microsoft Open-Source Tools Hacked to Steal AI Developers’ Passwords

Microsoft GitHub hack hit open-source AI tools, exposing developer passwords and cloud credentials. Here’s why SA tech teams should care.
Information Age

The Australians fighting AI slop in open-source code

AI has made our job harder – it has really flipped the script,” Sydney-based open-source software developer Lucy Liu tells ...
SiliconANGLE

Sonar expands SonarQube with advanced security for third-party open-source code

Code quality testing startup SonarSource SA today announced the upcoming release of SonarQube Advanced Security, a new offering that will extend the company’s analysis capabilities beyond first-party ...
Ars Technica

DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release

Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is ...
Reuters

Continue Launches 1.0 with Open-Source IDE Extensions and a Hub that Empowers Developers to Build and Share Custom AI Code Assistants

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 26, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- Continue, the open-source AI code assistant platform, today announced the launch of Continue 1.0, a major milestone on its journey to empower ...