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Microsoft's GitHub confirms cyberattack involving unauthorised access of nearly 3,800 repositories

GitHub has confirmed a cyberattack after a threat actor claimed to have stolen and listed company data for sale. The breach involved unauthorised access to internal repositories via a "poisoned" VS Code extension, with the attacker's claims of accessing nearly 3,800 repositories aligning with GitHub's investigation.

The Economic Times

Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension'

A full incident report is on the way.

PC Gamer

Meet the brothers who turned a homegrown AI agent into a $12 million bet on the future of work — in six weeks

NanoCo's Gavriel and Lazer Cohen are the brothers behind the first AI agent "claw" company to raise real money.

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Hacker group hits 3,800 internal GitHub repositories via poisoned developer plugin — TeamPCP claims source code theft and attempts $50,000 sale, employee installed malicious VS Code extension

GitHub has confirmed a breach involving roughly 3,800 internal repositories after an employee device was compromised through a malicious VS Code extension. The TeamPCP hacker group claims it stole internal source code and attempted to sell the data for at least $50,000.

Tom’s Hardware

CISA contractor apparently leaked 'highly sensitive' government AWS keys on Github

The leak was so bad, researchers initially thought it was a joke.

TechRadar

What is Mini Shai-Hulud npm supply chain attack, and was Microsoft and Socket hit by malware? Full explainer on npm malware spread

What is Mini Shai-Hulud npm supply chain attack, and was Microsoft and Socket hit by malware? A new npm supply chain attack hit hundreds of packages linked to the @antv ecosystem. Attackers used a compromised maintainer account to publish malicious versions that stole credentials and spread across repositories. Microsoft and…

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Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent — Intense digital archaeology project has taken years, risked player wrath

A digital gaming archaeology project has archived 24TB of data, preserving a million squared block of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server.

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'Please stop submitting AI slop code': team behind popular PS3 emulator call time on user submitted vibe coding

"This wastes maintainer time and, in worse cases, such changes get merged and break functionality for all users."

PC Gamer

Microsoft's "ironic" GitHub Copilot logo sparks controversy

"No AI" is a strange flex for an AI bot.

Creative Bloq

Your new Steam Controller will not work with the Xbox app and PC Game Pass unless you use third-party software on Windows

Game Pass titles from the Xbox PC app can't communicate properly with Valve's new controller via Steam Input, an issue that's currently only fixed with fan-made apps.

Windows Central

'The exact same issue that was reported to Microsoft by Google project zero is actually still present, unpatched': Chaotic Eclipse strikes again with another worrying Windows security flaw

A new Windows 11 bug called MiniPlasma was disclosed on GitHub, together with a PoC.

TechRadar

Grafana says hackers hit its GitHub environment, demand ransom to prevent codebase release — but it's refusing to pay

CoinbaseCartel somehow obtained an access token and used it to steal files from the GitHub environment.

TechRadar

Microsoft cancels Claude Code licenses, shifting developers to GitHub Copilot CLI — a move likely driven by financial motives

Microsoft is ditching Claude Code for Copilot CLI, leaving developers frustrated and raising questions about financial motives.

Windows Central

Microsoft may discontinue Claude Code internally as it looks to push users towards GitHub Copilot

Claude Code has proven a hit among Microsoft's engineers, but the company now wants them to switch to GitHub Copilot CLI.

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Microsoft reveals another way it's making Windows 11 faster, with more performance boosts promised for the likes of File Explorer

'It's a long-term commitment for fundamentals and quality': Microsoft is working to make Windows 11 faster in multiple ways, including in-depth honing of the interface.

Tom’s Hardware

Compromised Mistral AI and TanStack packages may have exposed GitHub, cloud and CI/CD credentials in 'mini Shai Hulud' malware infection — supply-chain campaign spreads across npm and AI developer ecosystems like wildfire

Microsoft says attackers compromised the mistralai PyPI package with malware that executed on import, while researchers link related npm compromises affecting TanStack and Mistral SDKs to the broader “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply-chain campaign.

The Economic Times

Riding the AI buck: Rising API, usage-based costs force a rethink

As enterprises rapidly scale AI adoption, soaring API and usage-based costs are forcing companies to rethink spending, introduce guardrails and, in some cases, hire humans instead. Swathi Moorthy weighs in.

The Economic Times

Margin pressures lurk below AI pricing play

Shift to usage-based AI pricing may boost large-scale IT despite short-term margin pressures, writes Shristi Achar.

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Every Microsoft Surface should have this tiny Windows 11 app that finally fixes a long‑standing battery headache

Microsoft still makes you dig through the Surface app to pause Smart Charging, but a new third-party tool called Surface Charging Tray brings those toggles to your taskbar.

Windows Central

“We need to evolve”: Xbox CEO overhauls leadership as Xbox's hardware future looks increasingly bleak

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is overhauling the brand’s leadership team following a difficult earnings report, bringing in new talent from CoreAI and Instacart while Kevin Gammill and Roanne Sones depart.

Windows Central

"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice

VS Code shipped a change that added “Co‑authored‑by: Copilot” to Git commits by default, even when Copilot had not generated code and AI features were turned off.

Tom’s Hardware

Keychain-size ‘GameCube’ uses genuine Nintendo silicon — system also includes a dock, design shared to GitHub

Video showcases the Nintendo Kawaii project, in which modders have shrunken a boxy GameCube down to a keychain.

Tom’s Hardware

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in a garage — code was open-sourced to mark 86-DOS 1.00’s anniversary

Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.

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'That is why it is important to have full control': Dutch government launches its own self-hosted GitHub alternative in the latest blast against US tech giants such as Microsoft

The Netherlands has launched a self-hosted Git platform to gain control over code infrastructure, reduce reliance on external providers, and support collaboration.

PC Gamer

This historic OS was not stored digitally, so a fleet of historians have transcribed the source code from ancient print-outs in order to make it open source

History painstakingly preserved.

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