Fake Next.js job interview tests backdoor developer's devices

The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, ...
Securities.io

Anthropic’s Claude Code vs COBOL: IBM Investors React

While Anthropic’s Claude Code grabbed headlines, IBM has been deploying its own generative AI solution, Watsonx Code Assistant for Z, designed to modernize the very mainframes it built. Unlike general ...
Decrypt

OpenAI Says Benchmark Used to Measure AI Coding Skill Is 'Contaminated'—Here's Why

OpenAI wants to retire the leading AI coding benchmark—and the reasons reveal a deeper problem with how the whole industry measures itself.
Communications of the ACM

A Decade of Docker Containers

Docker is a widely used developer tool that first simplifies the assembly of an application stack (docker build), then allows for the rapid distribution of the resulting executabl ...
Control Global

New virtualization tools keep sprouting

Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

Anthropic’s COBOL tool triggers worst single-day drop in 25 years in IBM's stock price: What it is and why it wiped billions of dollar for IBM

IBM shares suffered their worst single-day drop in over 25 years on Monday, February 23 after AI startup Anthropic announced ...
GitHub

code/app-python-comfyui

The most powerful and modular visual AI engine and application. ComfyUI lets you design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines using a graph/nodes/flowchart based interface. Available on ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.
The Manila Times

Weaviate Launches Agent Skills to Empower AI Coding Agents

The new open-source repository delivers structured skills, slash commands, and production-ready cookbooks to reduce AI coding errors and speed up Weaviate-based application development.
IEEE

Python Source Code Vulnerability Detection Based on CodeBERT Language Model

Abstract: Programming language source code vulnerability mining is crucial to improving the security of software systems, but current research is mostly focused on the C language field, with little ...
eWeek

Code Metal Hits $1.25B Valuation With AI Code Fix

Code Metal hit a $1.25B valuation after a $125M round, using AI to translate and verify legacy code for defense and other regulated systems.

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.