Free-text answers and LLMs reveal hidden reasons behind human choices

Why do people make the choices they do? Researchers from the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TUD Dresden University of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the ...

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 ...

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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Researchers Demo New Claude Code Attack Using Harmless-Looking Repositories to Hijack Developer Machines

Attackers can inject indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories to trick Claude Code into spawning a reverse shell.
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Open-Weight AI Enters GitHub Copilot: Kimi K2.7 Code Costs Less, Audits Differently

GitHub moved the AI coding landscape on Wednesday when it made Kimi K2.7 Code — a Beijing-built, open-weight model from Moonshot AI — generally available in the GitHub Copilot model picker, marking ...
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LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that sp ...
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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 ...