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Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2

Tropic Trooper used trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub C2 in 2024 to deploy AdaptixC2, enabling covert VS Code tunnel access.

Microsoft unleashes VS Code 1.117 with custom AI model support and fluid chat animations

Ready to supercharge your workflow? Microsoft just made VS Code more flexible than ever with local model support and a ...
Tech Xplore

How do generative AI tools reshape the software engineering workforce?

New research in Contemporary Economic Policy reveals that generative artificial intelligence tools like GitHub Copilot may ...
Bleeping Computer

Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub

Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware. Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software ...
Inc

Microsoft Copilot Is Using a Surprising AI Trick to Create More Accurate Research Reports

Microsoft has announced some major upgrades to its 365 Copilot platform, including to the latest version of its Researcher agent, and the soft launch of its Copilot Cowork feature, built in ...
TechSpot

GitHub pulls Copilot "feature" after it added advertising to more than 11,000 pull requests

WTF?! Microsoft's GitHub is rolling back a controversial update after developers discovered that its AI assistant, Copilot, was quietly inserting promotional messages into user-generated pull requests ...
VentureBeat

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude ...
tech2geek

GitHub Copilot Data Collection Goes Default: What Developers Need to Know

Starting April 24, 2026, GitHub will introduce a major change to how it handles user data in GitHub Copilot. From that date forward, data collection for AI training will be enabled by default for most ...
HotHardware

GitHub Reverses Course And Will Train AI On Your Copilot Data Unless You Opt Out

Starting on April 24th, all GitHub Copilot interaction data including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train GitHub's AI ...
TechSpot

GitHub Copilot will use your data for AI training by default, but you can opt out

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.
On MSFT

GitHub Copilot will train on your data by default, here’s how to stop it

Microsoft plans to change how GitHub Copilot uses your data, and this update directly affects how the tool learns from real users. The company will start training its AI models using interaction data ...