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77 Counterfeit Open VSX Extensions Collected Developer and CI/CD Data

Seventy-seven counterfeit extensions appeared on Open VSX between July 26 and Aug. 1, impersonating legitimate Visual Studio Code Marketplace tools while sending data to the same newly registered domain. Nineteen collected detailed information about developer machines, Git repositories, and CI/CD environments. The extensions had been removed from Open VSX by Aug. 3, but copies already…

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Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option

Google said that it is adding Venmo as a payment option today on Google Play for purchases including games, apps, add-ons, and other digital content. The company said that users can use Venmo’s wallet or other linked payment methods, such as bank accounts and cards, to pay for subscriptions or tip creators within different content-based…

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Anthropic Is Hiring Engineers to Build Its Own AI Chips

Anthropic is making its custom-chip ambitions official. The Claude developer is assembling an in-house silicon team to work on custom chips, according to Business Insider and a company job listing seeking engineers with experience completing and shipping semiconductor designs. The move places Anthropic among a growing group of AI companies trying to reduce infrastructure constraints…

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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called…

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