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Pi Coding Agent gets read, edit and shell access to whatever folder you start it in, and the quickstart stops right after the install. This guide covers what comes next: the look-alike package that installs under a different name, the one test to run before the first edit, the project settings that pick your models, and where to put a repository you do not trust.
Read full story →A maliciously modified version of Anthropic's Claude Code extension was available in Cursor's VS Code Extension Marketplace between about 2:27 a.m. and 1:35 p.m. Pacific on Thursday, Oct. 29. The extension ran code that attempted to install a persistent SSH backdoor. Cursor, the coding-tool company owned by SpaceX, said the incident affected up to 5,000 users. Extensions auto-update in Cursor by default. The extension updated itself in Cursor to the malicious version. "A malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a tampered extension targeting
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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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Meta's 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open runs at home on two linked M5 Ultra Mac Studios that Apple has not yet priced. Hosted access costs $4.25 per million output tokens. Apple's own speed tests and today's cloud prices decide which workloads make the purchase pay.
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