Flaws in four popular VS Code extensions left 128 million installs open to attack

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, and local network reconnaissance. Application security company OX Security published the findings this week, saying it had begun notifying vendors in June 2025 but received no response…

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Mistral AI deepens compute ambitions with Koyeb acquisition

Mistral AI has acquired Paris-based cloud startup Koyeb, marking the model-maker’s first acquisition and entry into the enterprise infrastructure market. This suggests a strategic shift for the French company, which has built its reputation on frontier models but is now investing heavily in compute capabilities and expanded deployment options. The acquisition folds Koyeb’s serverless deployment…

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What is Docker? The spark for the container revolution

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers—small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in isolation from one another. While containers have been used in Linux and Unix systems for some time, Docker, an open source project launched in 2013, helped popularize…

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Claude Sonnet 4.6 improves coding skills

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, an update to the company’s hybrid reasoning model that brings improvements in coding consistency and instruction following, Anthropic said. Introduced February 17, Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, design, and knowledge work, according to Anthropic. the…

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WebMCP API extends web apps to AI agents

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) participants including Google and Microsoft have launched the WebMCP API, a JavaScript interface that allows web applications to provide client-side “tools” to AI agents. The API would enable agents to interact directly with web pages and participate in collaborative workflows with human users within the same web interface. WebMCP is…

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Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 targets enterprise agent workflows with expanded multimodal support

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model that the company says is intended to serve as a foundation for digital agents capable of advanced reasoning and tool use across applications. The release reflects the ongoing shift from standalone chatbot deployments toward AI systems that can execute multi-step workflows and operate with minimal human…

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