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 ...
The Hacker News

GitHub to Disable npm Install Scripts by Default to Stop Supply Chain Attacks

GitHub has announced what it said are "breaking changes" coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat ...
GitHub

scrape_us_usps.py

site. Lands into data/raw/us-usps/{code}/. uv run scripts/scrape_us_usps.py --list-only # search + filter, print matches uv run scripts/scrape_us_usps.py # full scrape + images uv run ...
CNBC

Corning shares jump 4% after company strikes deal to power Amazon AI data centers in U.S.

Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fiber to power and connect its rapidly expanding U.S. data centers for artificial intelligence. It's the latest megadeal for Corning, following ...
GitHub

JavaScript captcha solver (Node.js): Bypass reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, GeeTest and more

Use the JavaScript captcha solver to automatically bypass any captcha - including reCAPTCHA v2, Invisible, v3, Enterprise, Cloudflare Turnstile, GeeTest sliders, Amazon WAF, FunCaptcha, and both image ...
The Hacker News

Free Apps Are Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit ...
Forbes

Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online And The Internet Was Never Built For This

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