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Official Claude Code VS Code Extension Compromised to Install Persistent SSH Backdoor

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that the official Anthropic Claude Code extension was compromised on the Open VSX registry to install a persistent SSH backdoor on infected hosts. The issue has since been traced to the compromise of the Cursor Marketplace, prompting the AI coding platform Cursor to briefly take down the service to remove the malware. "We identified a security incident

The Hacker News · October 30, 2026

Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays

Google's intelligent AI shopping cart is finally here, and just in time to tempt users into Black Friday and seasonal holiday spending. The Universal Cart tool Google previewed at its I/O event in May is now rolling out in the US across the Gemini app and Google Search, with the aim of making it easier […]

Tech Oct 15, 2026

Ledger’s new hardware wallet is an Android phone without the phone

Ledger has announced its latest crypto-centric hardware effort, the Android-based Atom, a device that resembles a phone but is instead designed to be used alongside one. It arrives at a tricky time for Ledger, which has been forced to cease sales of some of its hardware across southeast Asia following hardware tampering in its supply […]

Tech Oct 15, 2026

Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff

Last year, Amazon bought Bee, a relatively unknown startup with a $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had. Today, the e-commerce giant is announcing two new Bee devices - and a new subscription to go with them. First is the $74.99 Bee Frontier, an updated version of the original Bee device. And […]

Tech Oct 15, 2026

Your secrets aren’t safe with this cute robot toy — they’re on Chinese servers ready to be hacked

There's a new digital pet in town - a cute little marshmallow of a robot that can change its cartoony expressions to match your mood. But if you or your kids talk to "Eiliko" over Wi-Fi, it'll phone home to China. Its AI companion can store literally everything you tell it on Chinese servers, where […]

Tech Oct 15, 2026

Big Walk skipped Xbox to boycott Microsoft’s involvement with Israel

Big Walk's co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game's creators have explained why. Developer House House said in a blog post that it decided not to release Big Walk on Xbox consoles in accordance with the Palestinian-led […]

Learning Oct 15, 2026

How to Give an AI Agent Safe Access to an Internal API with MCP

Our on-call team keeps a small internal notes API. The web app in front of it shows who's holding the pager, which days are frozen for deploys, and where the runbooks live. A developer on that team wa

Learning Oct 15, 2026

Secure by Design: How to Engineer Security into Architecture Before Writing Any Code

There's a conversation that happens in most engineering teams,maybe usually too late. Think of this, a feature ships to production. A security review happens afterwards, or a penetration test finds so

Learning Oct 15, 2026

How to Build Disaster Simulations on a Real Map: Animated Canvas Layers and Collapsing 3D Buildings with Mapbox GL JS and Three.js

At some point, a map project needs more than markers and polygons. You want something to happen on the map: water moving up a street, smoke drifting with the wind, or a shockwave spreading out from a

Tech Oct 15, 2026

More Than Three Quarters of Small Business Owners Say AI Makes Them More Productive, But Most Need More Guidance

New Meta research across nine APAC markets shows how AI is helping small businesses grow, compete with larger rivals and reach customers across borders.

Security Oct 15, 2026

Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting New Critical Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability

Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment through the gateway and, if it succeeds, could then run commands as root. The appliance filters an organization's email for spam, malware,

Marketing & SEO Oct 15, 2026

Operationalizing AI: Proven Workflows That Generate Measurable Revenue

Most teams use AI. Almost none compound it. Eric Siu shows how Single Grain turns repeat work into skills, evals, and loops that improve every week.

Learning Oct 14, 2026

Laravel URL AI Transformer: Extract Structured Data From URLs

Spatie's Laravel URL AI Transformer fetches web pages, runs them through Laravel AI agents, and stores JSON-LD, summaries, or schema-validated data.

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