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Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.

Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors
A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on…

Developers ask AI which tool to use. Here’s how we track the answer.
We asked Claude “Which CMS platforms support MCP integration?” It searched the web and put Webflow in its first group,

Route and orchestrate models with GitHub Copilot Fusion
GitHub Copilot Fusion is generally available. Instead of picking a model for each task, choose Copilot Fusion and let Copilot intelligently route and…

GitHub Copilot app, Universe releases
Work doesn’t always fit in a single repository or session. A feature can span several repositories.

GitHub Enterprise now includes access to GitHub Copilot
Enterprises working with a GitHub or Microsoft account team can now get Copilot included with GitHub Enterprise for every licensed user.

Repository plugin defaults and enterprise plugin controls generally available
Repository plugin defaults and enterprise-managed plugin controls are now generally available in VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the GitHub Copilot app.

Tune GitHub Copilot Inline Suggestions with Configurable Eagerness
Choose how proactively Copilot offers inline suggestions.

Microsoft’s new Copilot harness makes agents easy — until you want to switch
Microsoft is opening up the GitHub Copilot agent harness to outside developers through Microsoft Foundry, bringing the same orchestration…

Official Claude Code Extension on Cursor Marketplace Trojanized with Persistent SSH Backdoor
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a trojanized version of Anthropic's official Claude Code extension was distributed through the Cursor…
Why MCP servers should tell agents what to do next
Many MCP servers do just one thing. An agent asks for data and the server hands it back. AWS’s James

The 5 essential layers of AI agent sandboxing on Kubernetes
An AI agent given autonomy to run code will inevitably run code no human has reviewed. It may install model-selected

Securing the agentic insider
In the last few months, concerns have arisen about AI safety as a growing number of incidents were publicly disclosed.
Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin
Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity
Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results.

How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code
Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context.

GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a new model selection & orchestration system that beats Claude Code for half the API cost
GitHub has debuted GitHub Copilot Fusion, a new system that handles model selection and orchestration for coding tasks so developers
IllustrationMCP standardized tools. Now we need the infrastructure around them.
IllustrationPeeling the Matryoshka: Extracting Ontological Structure from Retrieval Embeddings
Taxonomy construction is essential for knowledge-intensive NLP yet remains costly: clustering-based methods (i) need careful per-corpus tuning and…
Iterated Integrals as Lexical Fingerprints: Path Signature Embeddings for Lexical Similarity
While sentence embeddings are primarily designed for semantic generalization, their latent geometry implicitly encodes surface-level lexical…
Agentic Systems for Calibrating Cosmological Simulations
Calibrating a cosmological simulation is an expensive, high-dimensional parameter optimization task.
IllustrationAgentic World Modeling for Agent Test-time Scaling without Environment Replica
Test-time scaling (TTS) improves large language model agents by sampling and selecting among multiple candidate trajectories, but common realizations…
IllustrationCapability-Grounded Agentic Planning
LLM agents serve natural-language requests through tools, data sources, and other agents, and even simple requests often need several interdependent…
IllustrationContext as Infrastructure: Knowledge Compilation for Retrieval in Agentic Systems with Harnesses
Retrieval-augmented generation is becoming agentic. A search harness writes queries, reads results, reformulates, and decides when to stop.
How Much Can Tool Calls Reveal About You? Privacy Leakage from Tool-Call Traces
Large language model (LLM)-based agents interact with external tools through protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), producing tool-call…
IllustrationSoK: Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Taxonomy, Architectures, Evaluation, and Research Directions
-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are increasingly evolving into agentic architectures where large language models…