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 ...
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OpenAI Silently Rolled GPT-5.6 to Some Codex Users: A Hidden Prompt Exposes the Swap

GPT-5.6 was already running in Codex for some users before OpenAI’s government-approved preview opened to partners. A ...

Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

Z.ai has launched ZCode, a free AI coding tool powered by GLM-5.2 that challenges Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot ...
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Claude Code Hid Proxy Fingerprints in System Prompts: Anthropic Promises Fix

A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic's Claude Code binary discovered on June 30, 2026, that the tool had been silently encoding hidden signals into its AI system prompts for at least three months ...