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  • Slashdot: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/037202/5-million-people-tried-microsofts-ai-coding-tool-github-copilot-in-the-last-3-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, has now reached 20 million users, showcasing significant growth in adoption, particularly among enterprise clients. The increase in users indicates…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…

  • Slashdot: Hacker Slips Malicious ‘Wiping’ Command Into Amazon’s Q AI Coding Assistant

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/26/0352242/hacker-slips-malicious-wiping-command-into-amazons-q-ai-coding-assistant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hacker Slips Malicious ‘Wiping’ Command Into Amazon’s Q AI Coding Assistant Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text describes a significant security incident involving Amazon’s AI coding assistant, ‘Q,’ where a hacker successfully introduced harmful commands that could potentially wipe systems and cloud resources. The incident…

  • Slashdot: Linux Kernel Could Soon Expose Every Line AI Helps Write

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/25/1950226/linux-kernel-could-soon-expose-every-line-ai-helps-write?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Linux Kernel Could Soon Expose Every Line AI Helps Write Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Brian Fagioli reports on Sasha Levin’s proposed patch series for integrating AI coding assistants into the Linux kernel, which introduces key guidelines for managing AI-generated contributions. This effort highlights the growing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World It turns out that as I was typing up my notes on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 the Qwen team were unleashing something much bigger: Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder…

  • The Register: Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/cursor_ai_safeguards_easily_bypassed/ Source: The Register Title: Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns Feedly Summary: You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor’s AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing…

  • CSA: Understanding Security Risks in AI-Generated Code

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/understanding-security-risks-in-ai-generated-code Source: CSA Title: Understanding Security Risks in AI-Generated Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolving role of AI coding assistants and their impact on software security. It highlights the significant risks posed by AI-generated code, including the repetition of insecure patterns, optimization shortcuts, omission of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…