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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

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AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says

Private capital giant says AI group is expected to receive ‘high’ junk rating in shift from previous guidance

US tech stocks tumble as earnings stoke AI spending fears

Intel’s shares on track to plunge by the most since 1974 after chipmaker’s results spook investors

Credit where it’s due to AI for uncovering the PHP flaw – and discredit to the leaker | Letters

David Gibson says the problem is that details of the flaw were revealed before it was fixed, while Charles MacKinnon notes that we are at the mercy of technology we don’t understand Chris Stokel-Walker may be right ( The internet has broken – again. Shouldn’t the tech firms that

A question for those who hate datacentres

Technology and urban planning | The Guardian letters page | Porridge Your account of the datacentre controversy in Cardiff ( The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle, 24 October ) missed out the important balancing fact that Cardiff counc

Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case

Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey says Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast Altering copyright law to allow AI companies to scrape music, books and journalism coul

Pope says most urgent challenge facing AI race is need for institutional ethical framework

Pope says 'most urgent' challenge facing AI race is need for institutional ethical framework

Did Anthropic value itself at $1.2tn in August?

Not quite Navier-Stokes

Google value plunges by $500bn as its own AI search hits ad sales

Google spooked investors so badly that its stock hit a six-month low, after it revealed its AI own search summaries were affecting ad revenue.

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow through on a prompt to create a haiku abo

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore "experiences that recognize participating customers as they arrive, present per

Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop

After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he sympathizes with researchers struggling to make sense of it all. But he has no intention of stopping - and hints there could be much more to come from the com