BlackBox AI, a popular VS Code coding assistant, has a critical indirect prompt injection vulnerability. Hackers can exploit this to gain remote root access to a user’s computer.

Braden Yuill is CEO and Founder of Virtual Coworker, an offshore recruitment firm helping businesses scale smarter with global talent. For a long time, success in the virtual assistant industry has ...

The Python extension now supports multi-project workspaces, where each Python project within a workspace gets its own test tree and Python environment. This document explains how multi-project testing ...

DOHA: The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) announced the launch of its virtual assistant service in Arabic and English on its official website. This initiative aligns with the third phase of the financial ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I am not, by any definition, a coder, but when I started seeing people’s vibe-coded smart home projects all over ...

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Grist‑Core, an open-source, self-hosted version of the Grist relational spreadsheet-database, that could result in remote code execution. The ...

In the early 2000s, the concept of a virtual assistant was virtually nonexistent. While the internet was already transforming how businesses operated, most administrative, sales, marketing, accounting ...

The core use case of this Proof of Concept (PoC) revolves around a banking personal assistant designed to revolutionize the way users interact with their bank account information, transaction history, ...

I realized just how useful Mercedes-Benz's new in-car AI assistant can be when I was driving a different car. After testing the impressive new 2026 Mercedes CLA-Class in San Francisco, I flew back to ...

Waymo appears to be testing adding Google’s Gemini AI chatbot to its robotaxis in an effort to integrate an AI assistant that would accompany riders and answer their queries, according to findings by ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Once upon a time, IDEs focused on specific languages, like Visual Studio IDE for Microsoft C++ or IntelliJ IDEA for Java. But now there is a new wave of IDEs dedicated to agentic AI workflows. AWS ...