News has been circulating that "the Claude Code extension contained a backdoor." Since it's a tool I use every day, I think ...

"I use a Mac. I don't know what's different when looking at the Windows instructions."I often hear this from people whose ...

Cursor reported on October 29, 2026 that a maliciously modified build of the Claude Code extension, Anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313, was available in its extension marketplace and tries to install a ...

The compromised versions attempted to plant SSH keys and establish persistent remote access; Anthropic says an attacker used ...

An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, ...

A compromised version of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension was available in Cursor’s extension marketplace for about 11 hours ...

Microsoft analyzes a malicious Claude Code–branded extension, its persistent SSH backdoor, and guidance to detect and ...

Cursor on October 29, 2026 disclosed a security incident involving a maliciously modified version of the ...

Ask a systems engineer in 2026 which hash function they reach for and you’ll get two very different answers depending on the job. Ask about signing a certificate, verifying a Bitcoin block, or passing ...

Pay once and keep coding forever.

VS Code 1.141 lets developers continue local GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex conversations started in other applications. New agent management features include session grids, worktree cleanup, ...

Modern terminal apps look nothing like the cryptic tools you remember, and these five earned a permanent spot on my system.