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Got a Raspberry Pi Pico? Here's the first thing you should do

The Pi Picos are tiny but capable, once you get used to their differences.
PCMag

Hackers Are Using Claude Code Leak As Bait to Spread Malware

With Anthropic rushing to wipe out the Claude Code leak, hackers are posting malware-laden files on GitHub that they claim ...

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 ...
Business Insider

Claude outages lay bare software developers' growing reliance on AI: 'I guess I'll write code like a caveman'

Anthropic's Claude AI models suffered several outages this week. Some software developers said the disruptions laid bare how reliant they had become on AI tools. A Meta software engineer said these ...
AOL

Brandon software distributor sentenced for trafficking stolen Microsoft activation codes

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Brandon software distributor was sentenced to nearly two years in prison after a jury found her guilty of conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft certificates of Authenticity ...
Inc

Anthropic Exec Says Software Engineering Jobs Could See Major Disruption Sooner Than You Think

Since its launch around a year ago, Claude Code has changed the way software engineers work, according to Fortune. The agentic AI tool can complete tasks without much human oversight, and it can build ...
AOL

‘It’s going to be painful for a lot of people’: Software engineers could go extinct this year, says Claude Code creator

For decades, a Big Tech career in software engineering promised a stable job and a six-figure starting salary. Now that job title could be gone by the end of this year, according to the man who ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
The New York Times

The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

Mr. Ford is an essayist and a technologist. On weekday evenings, heading home on the subway from Union Square in New York City, I log into an A.I. tool from my phone and write a prompt. “Look at the ...
PC Gamer

A human software engineer rejected an AI agent's code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an 'angry' blog about him

RPG Owlcat says everything in its new Expanse RPG 'will definitely 100 percent be human-made,' but also that generative AI will be used for 'vision coordination' and 'inspiration' AI Man pleads guilty ...
Wall Street Journal

The Car Industry Is Racing to Replace Chinese Code

How Chinese is your car? Automakers are racing to work it out. Modern cars are packed with internet-connected widgets, many of them containing Chinese technology. Now, the car industry is scrambling ...
CNBC

How exposed are software stocks to AI tools? We put vibe-coding to the test

CNBC put the AI threat to software companies to the test by vibe-coding a version of the tools from Monday.com. Silicon Valley insiders say the most exposed software names are the ones that "sit on ...