Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
Will Cogley on MSNOpinion

Python and Arduino animatronic speech tutorial

Learn how to program speech synthesis for an animatronic mouth using Python and Arduino. Discover how to synchronize speech ...
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
TechCrunch

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but the startup, founded by two former early Datadog engineers, ...
VentureBeat

Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100

Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere's North ...
CNBC

OpenAI to acquire Ona to support its AI coding assistant, Codex

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...
Gizmochina

Xiaomi announces new AI coding agent that actually remembers what it was doing

Xiaomi just open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, its new terminal-based AI coding assistant that is trying to solve one of the biggest frustrations with AI-powered programming tools: they tend to lose track ...
Hackaday

Automatic Tutorial Generator Is Perhaps The Best-Case For Vibe Coding

Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all your homework, but that’s exactly what ‘vibe coders’ are doing — even in ...
GitHub

The open-source AI workbench for scientific research

OpenScience is an AI workbench for scientific research. You give it a goal, and it works through the research loop the way a ...
VentureBeat

Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic coding ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

New “Agentjacking” Attacks Could Hijack AI Coding Agents

Researchers have revealed what they claim to be a “new class of attack” which tricks AI coding agents into executing arbitrary code on developer machines. Tenet Security, which specializes in the ...