GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP ...
Engadget

Discord is back after an outage that took some users offline

Discord is recovering following a brief outage that saw some users unable to use the popular chat app. At 3:08PM ET, the company said it had begun investigating an issue with its API systems. Shortly ...
The Verge

Discord is back after a major outage.

For more than an hour on Friday, many people were having trouble connecting to Discord, with the platform showing a message saying that there were “increased API errors.” Discord confirmed it was ...
Bleeping Computer

Trellix discloses data breach after source code repository hack

Cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to "a portion" of its source code repository. Trellix is a global cybersecurity company formed from the October 2021 ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...
PC World

Discord Nitro may soon include a new Xbox Game Pass tier

PCWorld reports that Microsoft may introduce Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition, a new affordable tier potentially bundled with Discord Nitro for $9.99 monthly. This collaboration would offer subscribers ...
Fast Company

There’s no rogue McDonald’s AI bot, but ‘prompt injection’ is still a risk for companies

There appears to be a recent epidemic of users hijacking companies’ AI-powered customer service bots to turn them into generic AI assistants. The goal is to get the branded bots to do their bidding, ...
IGN

Xbox 'Teaming Up' With Discord For New Game Pass Offering

Microsoft gaming boss Asha Sharma has teased a new collaboration between Game Pass and Discord, as part of further changes to Xbox's subscription service. Writing on social media, Sharma said fans ...
Mashable

Discord group says it accessed Claude Mythos by guessing location

An anonymous group of Discord users says it hacked its way into accessing Claude Mythos Preview, the new AI model Anthropic claims is too powerful for a public release. Anthropic says Claude Mythos ...
The New York Times

Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era

Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore? By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Sigrid Jin was waiting to ...
decrypt

'Nothing Ever Happens': This Bot Always Bets 'No' on Polymarket, And It Has a Point

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polymarket's own data confirms 73.3% of all resolved markets end in "No." The bot's 65-cent price cap filters overpriced ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Anthropic Rushes to Limit Leak of Claude Code Source Code

Anthropic PBC is rushing to address the inadvertent release of internal source code behind Claude Code, an AI-powered assistant that has become a key moneymaker for the company. Thousands of copies of ...