Engineering Insights

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. "When automatic updates are enabled, new versions are auto-updated two hours after they are published, adding an extra layer of protection

Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack

Meta has revealed that 20,225 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta's AI-powered support system to reset passwords. [...]

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.

DeepSeek enters the fight for token volume, Anthropic continues to dominate spend

Every month, routes tens of trillions of tokens between production applications and AI labs, giving us visibility into what AI usage actually looks like, separate from leaderboards and benchmarks. We publish the data monthly in the AI Gateway production index. AI Gateway Last month, headlines about blown token budgets dominated tech news: its annual Claude Code budget shortly after Q1 and Amazon to curb unproductive tokenmaxxing. While runaway cost is a real problem, this month’s report shows

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/1000-data-breaches-later-the-disclosure-lag-is-worse-than-ever/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440952 Points: 296 # Comments: 119

Dopamine Fracking

Article URL: https://igerman.cc/blog/dopamine-fracking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440792 Points: 748 # Comments: 382

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New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/new-drug-functionally-cures-many-hepatitis-b-virus-infections?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440463 Points: 272 # Comments: 47