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  • Cloud Blog: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/five-best-practices-for-using-ai-coding-assistants/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants Feedly Summary: Does owning a kitchen knife mean you know how to effectively dice onions or julienne carrots? Of course not. Access to a tool doesn’t guarantee profenciency. To get the results you’re looking for, you need to learn the…

  • Slashdot: Chinese Hackers Breach US Software and Law Firms Amid Trade Fight

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/26/1836203/chinese-hackers-breach-us-software-and-law-firms-amid-trade-fight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese Hackers Breach US Software and Law Firms Amid Trade Fight Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a sophisticated hacking campaign by suspected Chinese hackers targeting US software developers and law firms, as reported by cybersecurity firm Mandiant. The implications for cloud computing security…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: XCSSET evolves again: Analyzing the latest updates to XCSSET’s inventory

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/09/25/xcsset-evolves-again-analyzing-the-latest-updates-to-xcssets-inventory/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: XCSSET evolves again: Analyzing the latest updates to XCSSET’s inventory Feedly Summary: Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new variant of the XCSSET malware, which is designed to infect Xcode projects, typically used by software developers building Apple or macOS-related applications. The post XCSSET evolves again: Analyzing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/compilebench/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Feedly Summary: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of…

  • Slashdot: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2039218/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent outage of Anthropic’s AI services, impacting developers’ access to Claude.ai and related tools. This transient disruption highlights concerns about the reliability of AI infrastructures,…

  • Slashdot: Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/0235251/some-angry-github-users-are-rebelling-against-githubs-forced-copilot-ai-features?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the growing dissent among software developers regarding Microsoft’s Copilot AI service integrated with GitHub. Key concerns revolve around the inability to disable Copilot’s functionalities and its…

  • The Register: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/ Source: The Register Title: Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features Feedly Summary: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options Among the software developers who use Microsoft’s GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI To Acquire Product Testing Startup Statsig, Appoints CTO of Applications

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/02/1955214/openai-to-acquire-product-testing-startup-statsig-appoints-cto-of-applications?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI To Acquire Product Testing Startup Statsig, Appoints CTO of Applications Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recent acquisition of Statsig marks a significant step in enhancing its AI product offerings and competitiveness, particularly in product testing and software development areas. With this acquisition, OpenAI aims…

  • Cloud Blog: Chat with your data from anywhere: Announcing Google’s Conversational Analytics API

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/understanding-lookers-conversational-analytics-api/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Chat with your data from anywhere: Announcing Google’s Conversational Analytics API Feedly Summary: Decision-makers, employees, and customers all need answers where they work: in the applications they use every day. In recent years, the rise of AI-powered BI has transformed our relationship with data, enabling us to ask…