Tag: developer

  • Slashdot: Over 3,200 Cursor Users Infected by Malicious Credential-Stealing npm Packages

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/2222257/over-3200-cursor-users-infected-by-malicious-credential-stealing-npm-packages?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Over 3,200 Cursor Users Infected by Malicious Credential-Stealing npm Packages Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a recent cybersecurity threat involving malicious npm (Node Package Manager) packages that target the AI-powered code-editing tool Cursor on macOS. The packages are designed to steal user credentials…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cursor: Security

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/cursor-security/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cursor: Security Feedly Summary: Cursor: Security Cursor’s security documentation page includes a surprising amount of detail about how the Cursor text editor’s backend systems work. I’ve recently learned that checking an organization’s list of documented subprocessors is a great way to get a feel for how everything…

  • Slashdot: What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving?

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/05/11/0623242/what-happens-if-ai-coding-keeps-improving?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: What Happens If AI Coding Keeps Improving? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rising significance of generative AI tools in coding, highlighting that tools like Cursor and Windsurf significantly reduce human oversight in software development. It notes the increasing integration of AI in…

  • Slashdot: Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College?

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/2112201/is-everyone-using-ai-to-cheat-their-way-through-college?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Is Everyone Using AI to Cheat Their Way Through College? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the concerning trend of college students utilizing generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, to cheat on assignments and exams, raising ethical questions about the use of AI in educational…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support Feedly Summary: This llama.cpp server vision support via libmtmd pull request – via Hacker News – was merged earlier today. The PR finally adds full support for vision models to the excellent llama.cpp project. It’s documented on this page, but the…

  • Slashdot: Education Giant Pearson Hit By Cyberattack Exposing Customer Data

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0146239/education-giant-pearson-hit-by-cyberattack-exposing-customer-data Source: Slashdot Title: Education Giant Pearson Hit By Cyberattack Exposing Customer Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Pearson, a major educational organization, experienced a cyberattack resulting in the theft of corporate and customer information. The breach is significant due to the scale of the organization and the sensitivity of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/9/gemini-implicit-caching/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Models now support implicit caching I just spotted a cacheTokensDetails key in the token usage JSON while running a long chain of prompts against Gemini 2.5 Flash – despite not configuring caching myself: {“cachedContentTokenCount": 200658, "promptTokensDetails":…

  • Slashdot: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88%

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0113217/alibabas-zerosearch-teaches-ai-to-search-without-search-engines-cuts-training-costs-by-88?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Alibaba’s ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88% Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alibaba Group’s “ZeroSearch” technique showcases an innovative approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to develop search capabilities without relying on external search engines, demonstrating significant cost…