In the latest visual studio code update they start out with an announcement of the visual studio code documentary... LOL Man these guys have so much cash and running out of the ideas what to do with i
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Visual Studio Code Vulnerability that Bypasses Workspace Trust https:// remedio.io/blog/bypassing-vs-c ode-workspace-trust-with-a-single-link/
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From the Visual Studio blog... AI Is Changing How We Code.
A public inquiry on 25 September 2026 heard that Number 10 Downing Street played a key decision-making role in pausing transfers of small boat arrivals to hotels, contributing to severe overcrowding at Manston asylum centre in Kent.
GitHub experienced an 8-hour outage on 2026-08-19 caused by a monitoring blind spot that allowed load balancers to buckle under a retry storm from VS Code clients. The cascade was triggered by autoscaling malfunction, according to GitHub's post-incident analysis.
On 27–28 August 2026, OpenAI led an open letter signed by nearly 130 organizations—including Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Cisco—warning of escalating AI-enabled cyberattacks and urging coordinated global cyber defenses. The coalition cautioned that sophisticated AI-powered attacks could proliferate within months without coordinated action.
Cluster mixes Fairphone Linux phone charging, Middle East defense pact, DOE nuclear projects, and RDP honeypot data with no single story. Reports span consumer hardware, international security, energy policy, and cybersecurity intelligence.
On September 3–4, 2026, an anonymous security researcher using the alias Nightmare Eclipse released FalconFlank, a public proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor that allows local privilege escalation to SYSTEM level on Windows systems. The exploit abuses the endpoint protection software's Office malicious-macros remediation feature.
Disparate reports cover Samsung Galaxy S27 camera redesigns (2026-08-25), Anthropic's Claude memory integration (2026-08-25), Bangkok flooding and California ocean phenomena (2026-09-28), and an NRC workforce assessment (2026-09-29). A systemd SSD issue also circulated online (2026-08-27).
Microsoft completed a $120,000 project to rewrite its Copilot AI runtime from JavaScript to Rust, improving performance and stability. The port demonstrates growing adoption of Rust in AI infrastructure development for its speed and reliability benefits.
Security researchers demonstrated they can replace legitimate downloaded macOS apps with malicious versions, exploiting gaps in Apple's Gatekeeper security. Apple has not addressed the vulnerability.