Crypto Briefing

NEAR AI Cloud brings private inference to GitHub Copilot through a VSCode extension

A new VSCode extension lets GitHub Copilot run NEAR AI Cloud models using TEE-based private inference, with NEAR staking ...
XDA Developers

A poisoned VS Code extension led to a GitHub breach, and Microsoft owns every link in the chain

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...
BleepingComputer

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Update May 21: GitHub has now linked this breach to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack and says the employee installed a malicious version of the Nx Console extension. GitHub has confirmed that ...
SiliconANGLE

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension

Hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of GitHub Inc.’s internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform ...
InfoWorld

GitHub admits major source code leak after 3,800 internal repositories breached

Microsoft’s GitHub has suffered what appears to be its biggest ever security breach after confirming that attackers exfiltrated code from around 3,800 of the company’s internal repositories. News of ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I ditched VS Code's Copilot for a local LLM, and I'm getting more done offline

Happy to sacrifice performance for offline use.