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Claude Code Extension VSCode Backdoor: How to Check and Clean Up

Phorion reports that Claude Code for VS Code 2.1.313 on the Cursor Marketplace hid a backdoor that planted an SSH key, opened a reverse tunnel and beaconed system details. Cursor…

Oct 31, 2026 · 7 min read

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AO3 Outage: Why Is AO3 Down, and Is Your Account Safe?

Oct 30, 2026 · 7 min read

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Tmux Ghostty Guide: What 1.4 Changes and Who Should Switch

Oct 28, 2026 · 7 min read

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KV Cache Explained: How a Cloudflare Bug Leaked Users' Prompts

Cloudflare disclosed that 155 responses from its GLM-5.3 model on Workers AI contained fragments of other customers' prompts. A 681,280-token KV cache pool behind a…

Abdul Rehman · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min read

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AI Pair Programming: What Studies Show About Claude and Copilot

AI pair programming now spans chat tools, editors and agents like Claude Code. Controlled studies disagree on speed: one found 55.8% faster, another found experts 19% slower.…

Abdul Rehman · Oct 25, 2026 · 6 min read

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Computer Use Agent: What AI That Clicks and Types Can Do

Anthropic (October 2024) and OpenAI (January 2025) released AI agents that operate a computer by looking at screenshots, clicking and typing. A 2026 benchmark of long tasks shows…

Abdul Rehman · Oct 25, 2026 · 6 min read

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AI Agent Sandbox: Containers, MicroVMs and Wasm Compared

Docker says its Wasm workloads feature is deprecated, while Firecracker and gVisor remain the documented stronger boundaries for untrusted code.

Abdul Rehman · Oct 25, 2026 · 5 min read

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Speculative Decoding: How AI Guesses Ahead to Write Faster

Speculative decoding lets a small helper guess several tokens while the big model verifies them in one pass. Papers on the original method, Medusa and EAGLE-3 report speedups, and…

Abdul Rehman · Oct 25, 2026 · 5 min read

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Agentic Engineering: What It Is and How It Differs From Prompting

Agentic engineering, building software with coding agents that run tools in a loop, is replacing single-prompt tricks as the way teams work with AI.

Abdul Rehman · Oct 24, 2026 · 6 min read

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