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Open ten terminal tabs, lose your SSH connection, and watch every long-running build die with it. That single failure mode is why terminal multiplexers exist, and in September 2026 the choice among them is no longer a two-horse race between tmux and GNU Screen. Zellij, the Rust-built “terminal workspace”, just shipped version 0.45.1 with nested…
Picking VTuber software used to mean one obvious choice: VTube Studio if you had a 2D Live2D model, and basically nothing polished if you wanted 3D. That changed fast. Global VTuber watch time hit 571.9 million hours in Q1 2026 alone, according to a Streams Charts report, up from 523 million hours a year earlier.…
We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin’s code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said on Thursday. The firm said Anthropic has patched the flaw in Claude…
The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan. The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve the use of previously undocumented tools called RUSTYSHADE, RUSTYMOVE, PSNATCH, and BASHNATCH. The activity has been codenamed…
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI’s GitHub repository, called “Monorepo,” which reportedly contains “OpenAI’s algorithmic secrets,” according to The…
OpenAI published a framework for disclosing model misalignment alongside six reports describing problematic behavior. The post OpenAI Says Its Models Searched GitHub for Leaked API Keys During Training appeared first on SecurityWeek.
GitHub’s Atom text editor has been dead for almost four years now, but the search traffic never really stopped. Thousands of developers still type “atom text editor” into Google every month, either because they inherited an old project with an .atom config folder, found a tutorial that assumes Atom still exists, or just miss the…
A rewrite this size wasn’t affordable before agents. Here’s what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actually took. The post Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
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