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Cursor's Marketplace Hands Developers a Backdoored Claude Code

Cursor's Marketplace Hands Developers a Backdoored Claude Code

A maliciously modified copy of Anthropic's Claude Code extension was available in Cursor's VS Code Extension Marketplace on Oct. 29 and attempted to install a persistent SSH backdoor. Cursor said up to 5,000 users were affected. Anthropic said it was not involved with building, publishing or hosting the extension.

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Idle Memory: Altman Eyes the RAM Sitting in Your PC

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said this week that memory is better used in data centers than in people's home computers. On Stripe cofounder John Collison's Cheeky Pint podcast, he put the share of time that DRAM in a personal computer gets used at 5%. The remark landed while DRAM is already expensive because of heavy demand from AI data centers, OpenAI's among them. What Changed * OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that DRAM in personal computers gets used 5% of the time. * He said maximum utilization in the cloud is

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Why We Think TypeWhisper Is the Best AI Dictation App

We have dictated close to 100,000 words into a free app maintained almost single-handedly by a developer in Zeuthen. Here is what it does that paid rivals charge for, and where it still falls short.

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