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Guidewire agreed to buy London-based Hyperexponential, which makes AI underwriting and pricing software for commercial insurers, for $1.7 billion in cash plus up to $400 million more if recurring revenue targets are met.
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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Install Pi Coding Agent 1.4.0 without the fork, prove it on a read-only branch, then copy a working project setup: trust, settings, packages, MCP and the right sandbox for a repository you do not own. Node 22.19 or newer for the npm route; the installer brings its own.
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