The Hacker News

PyPI Packages Deliver ZiChatBot Malware via Zulip APIs on Windows and Linux

ZiChatBot malware spread via 3 PyPI packages in July 2025 uses Zulip APIs as C2, enabling stealthy attacks across systems ...
The New York Times

A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Gabriel J.X. Dance ...
Dallas Voice

Actor shares the queer tidibits from ‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ coming to Bass Hall

Sean Bell (he/him) is very aware that Monty Python humor can be an acquired taste. But he also promises that musical lovers won’t be left out of the good times and showtunes in Monty Python’s Spamalot ...
The Verge

OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own

The new workspace agents can perform tasks like reporting on product feedback on their own in the cloud. The new workspace agents can perform tasks like reporting on product feedback on their own in ...
Android Police

6 ways I finally stopped spam from taking over my Gmail inbox

I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...
Computerworld

This problem might not need a solution: customer-service bots that code for free

Many enterprises that offer flexible genAI-powered customer service chat functions are seeing other businesses using them as a free tool to save on tokens. It’s a nasty problem, but the cure is likely ...
The Atlantic

Silicon Valley Is in a Frenzy Over Bots That Build Themselves

Late last month, a large crowd gathered in downtown San Francisco to demand that the AI industry stop developing more powerful bots. Holding signs and banners reading Stop the AI Race and Don’t Build ...
Business Insider

A 4 a.m. scramble turned Anthropic's leak into a 'workflow revelation'

Coders have had a field day weeding through the treasures in the Claude Code leak. "It has turned into a massive sharing party," said Sigrid Jin, who created the Python edition, Claw Code. Here's how ...
CNBC

Anthropic leaks part of Claude Code's internal source code

Anthropic accidentally leaked part of the internal source code for its coding assistant Claude Code, according to a spokesperson. The leak could help give software developers, and Anthropic's ...
Ars Technica

Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file

The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...
VentureBeat

Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Dedicated Python Environments Tool Rolls Out in VS Code Update

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...