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Developer Survey: AI Tools Rise, Trust Falls Amid Debugging Issues
In mid-2025, StackOverflow surveyed over 49,000 professional developers to understand how AI coding assistants ...
Gemini CLI Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
Overview In late July 2025, security researchers at Tracebit disclosed a high-severity flaw in ...
Blender Begins Mobile Port for iPad Pro, Enabling Cross-Platform Workflows
After years of community requests for a tablet-optimized version of the popular open source ...
Rediscovering Descent: The Pioneering 6DOF Shooter
Introduction Descent blasted onto the PC scene in 1995 as the first fully 3D ...
Rising Supply-Chain Attacks on Open Source Software
Targeting the Source Over the past month, attackers have intensified efforts to compromise widely ...
AI Coding Assistants’ Errors Lead to User Data Loss: Gemini CLI and Replit
Two recent incidents involving leading AI-powered coding tools—Google’s Gemini CLI and Replit AI—have highlighted ...
Julian LeFay, Father of The Elder Scrolls, Dies at 59
Julian LeFay, renowned as the visionary Technical Director behind the earliest Elder Scrolls titles ...
Programmer Wins Over OpenAI at 2025 AtCoder Finals
In a striking reversal of the expected human‐versus‐machine narrative, Polish developer Przemysław Dębiak (aka ...
AI Tools Reduce Open Source Developers’ Speed by 19%
In a groundbreaking randomized controlled trial, researchers at Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) ...
Solving the Power Mac G3 ROM Photo Easter Egg after 27 Years
Software engineer Doug Brown has uncovered the long-lost method to trigger a hidden JPEG ...
Gemini CLI: Open-Source AI Coding Agent by Google
For developers who live and breathe at the command line, Google has unveiled Gemini ...
Microsoft Revives MS-DOS Editor as ‘Edit’ for All Platforms
From 1991 to 2025: A Legacy Reimagined In June 2025, Microsoft unveiled Edit, a ...
The Rise and Fall of Google Play Instant Apps
Google Play Instant, introduced at Google I/O 2017 to enable on-demand app experiences without ...
Understanding AI Reasoning with o3-pro Launch
Introduction On June 10, 2025, OpenAI unveiled o3-pro, its most advanced simulated reasoning model ...
Unfaithful Reasoning Undermines Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Originally published June 2, 2025 7:08 PM GMT. Research by Benjamin Arnav, Pablo Bernabeu-Pérez, ...
LLM Psychology: Misalignment and AI Safety Insights
In AXRP Episode 42, AI safety researcher Owain Evans delves into groundbreaking studies on ...
Misalignment on a Budget: Finetuning and Steering Vectors
Published on June 8, 2025 3:28 PM GMT TL;DR We reproduce emergent misalignment (Betley ...
Bill Atkinson, Key Figure in Mac’s Graphics, Dies at 74
William "Bill" Atkinson, the pioneering engineer whose QuickDraw, MacPaint and HyperCard defined the graphical ...
Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Pro: The Smartest Model Yet
Google has officially released its latest large language model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, positioning it ...
GitLab Duo AI: Critical Prompt Injection Flaws Exposed
Security researchers have uncovered a series of prompt injection vulnerabilities in GitLab Duo, the ...
Claude 4: 7-Hour Autonomous Code Refactoring Unveiled
On May 22, 2025, Anthropic released its latest flagship language models—Claude Opus 4 and ...
Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Andrew Cunningham – May 19, 2025 Introduction Since its debut in the Windows 10 ...
OpenAI Unveils Codex: A Revolution in Coding AI
On May 16, 2025, OpenAI announced the research preview of Codex, its first full-blown ...
OpenAI Launches GPT-4.1, Expanding ChatGPT’s Enterprise Features
On May 14, 2025, OpenAI announced the integration of its GPT-4.1 model into the ...
Google DeepMind Launches AlphaEvolve for AI Algorithm Discovery
In a major stride toward fully automated scientific research, Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaEvolve, ...
curl Project Faces AI-Generated Fake Vulnerability Reports
In an alarming escalation of bogus security filings, the venerable open-source project curl—celebrating its ...
AI-Generated Code: A Threat to Software Supply Chain
As organizations increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to accelerate development, a new ...
Whisky App Shutdown: Teen Coder’s Bold Move
Introduction In a surprising yet resolute move, an 18-year-old coder and college student from ...
AI Bot Policy Sparks Developer Backlash
Incident Overview On Monday, a seasoned software developer using Cursor—a popular AI-powered code editor—experienced ...
Next-Gen Simulated Reasoning Models Unveiled
OpenAI has expanded its portfolio of AI models with the introduction of two groundbreaking ...