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Two malicious VS Code extensions—ChatGPT 中文版 (1.34M installs) and ChatMoss (151K installs)—function as legitimate AI coding assistants while covertly transmitting entire codebases to Chinese servers. The extensions remain live in the official marketplace. Koi Security disclosed the campaign January 22.
Winter Storm Fern knocked out power at an Oracle facility hosting TikTok's US infrastructure, affecting tens of thousands of servers and 220 million users from January 25. The irony: Oracle CTO Larry Ellison claimed in 2022 that Oracle's cloud "doesn't go down." Recovery took six days, raising questions about single-provider dependency for hyperscale applications.
Custom GPTs and NotebookLM make RAG look simple. They're not. Most enterprise RAG projects stall because organizations underestimate data cleanup, access controls, and ongoing validation work. The engineering isn't the bottleneck - organizational readiness is.
SAST, DAST, and SCA each catch different vulnerabilities - and miss others entirely. Enterprise teams layering all three still face gaps. The real question: which combination actually reduces your risk?
A ZDNET editor's Oura Ring detected 'major signs of strain' a full day before cold symptoms appeared. The device tracked body temperature, HRV, and resting heart rate deviations - all while she felt fine. Worth noting: finger-based sensors are proving more accurate than wrist devices for early illness detection.
Stack Overflow traffic continues declining post-ChatGPT while DEV.to grows through curation over gatekeeping. The shift signals broader changes in how enterprise teams source technical knowledge - with implications for DevEx strategies and internal documentation approaches.
Spring Boot controllers handle data through four standard annotations—@PathVariable, @RequestParam, @RequestBody, and @RequestHeader. Understanding when to use each matters for API design at scale. Here's what 35% of Java backend projects get right.
A developer's detailed account of building real-time lighting in PyGame reveals how floating-point precision and geometric edge cases create visible artifacts that 'looking right' can't catch. The implementation issues mirror challenges faced in production game engines, though PyGame remains a prototyping tool rather than enterprise platform.
Elon Musk is reportedly in talks to merge SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla - a move that would create a $800B founder-controlled empire spanning rockets, AI, and EVs. It's the inverse of what public markets have demanded for decades: GE, J&J, and others split up to escape the "conglomerate discount." The difference? Private capital structures let billionaire founders avoid that penalty.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced zero taxes through 2047 for cloud providers running international AI workloads from Indian data centers. The catch: revenues from domestic sales must flow through local resellers subject to Indian taxes. It's a 22-year bet on Big Tech infrastructure investment - if power and water constraints don't derail it first.
Tesla will end production of its Model S and Model X in Q2 2026, reallocating Fremont factory capacity to Optimus humanoid robots. The move comes as automotive revenue declined 3% year-over-year to $24.9B in Q4 2025, with the company planning to double CapEx to $20B - entering negative cash flow territory.
Most Claude Code subagent configurations waste tokens and activate the wrong agents. The culprit: tool permissions nobody restricts, missing context isolation, and vague descriptions that confuse routing. Anthropic's AI coding tool supports specialized subagents for parallel workflows, but production deployments reveal four systematic setup failures.