I had ChatGPT build me a free PDF editor because I didn't trust it to change my files - it worked!

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it touch your files, but asking it to write software that handles them safely - ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Terminal agents are replacing VS Code as the center of my development workflow

The agent is doing the actual work, and VS Code is just a window.

Walmart's Code Puppy was born from rage at AI's lock-in trap

Walmart's viral Code Puppy AI tool helps avoid vendor lock-in, cut costs, and reduce dependence on Claude Code and Codex.
Tech Times

Cisco Unified CM SSRF Flaw CVE-2026-20230: Public Exploit Code Opens Path to Root

Cisco Unified Communications Manager vulnerability CVE-2026-20230 allows unauthenticated attackers to gain root access via ...

Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board

Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents in Windows, giving enterprises secure runtime controls, identity, ...
MUO on MSN

There's a version of PowerShell that's even more powerful — and it's already on your Windows PC

I switched to WSL 2 and finally stopped feeling locked into Windows — here's why that changes everything.
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track ...

Protect your enterprise now from the Shai-Hulud worm and npm vulnerability in 6 actionable steps

TanStack had 2FA, OIDC publishing, and Sigstore provenance on every release. The Mini Shai-Hulud worm published 84 malicious versions anyway. The CI/CD Trust-Chain Audit Grid maps the six gaps it ...
Microsoft

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vulnerability enables Linux root privilege escalation across cloud environments

Microsoft Defender is investigating a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) affecting multiple major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and AWS ...
Time

The Pentagon Just Released Over a Hundred UFO Files. Here's What We Found Inside

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GitHub

write-up.md

For the exploit code and mitigation, see here. Dirty Frag is a vulnerability (class) that achieves root privileges on most Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability ...