Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a 'poisoned Visual Studio Code extension'

Devs, be careful what you plug in: GitHub security breach was apparently facilitated by a ‘poisoned Visual Studio Code extension’

GitHub, arguably the place for developers to store and share code, has been the target of a cyberattack. The Microsoft-owned platform reported on Tuesday that its internal repositories experienced unauthorised access, although it does not appear to have exposed customer information outside of that. “Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal…

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Critical Role finally releases a full-scale map of Campaign 4’s main city, and I’m deeply jealous to not have their personal cartographer at my table

I’m finally all caught up on Critical Role’s fourth campaign after an extended break—and I’ve been very much enjoying the “Schemer’s Table”, one of three central groups (the others being Soldiers and Seekers) that comprise the actual play show’s ambitious group of 13 players. As opposed to the Soldiers, who’ve been hunting down the bugger…

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If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you’re desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams

When Asus took over Intel’s baton for the Next Unit of Computing (aka the NUC or mini PC), some of us hoped that we’d be treated to a fresh new direction to the original concept. Essentially, that’s what we got, but it also came with something we didn’t want, and the latest Asus ROG NUC…

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‘If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff’: Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren’t inevitable

Efficiency gains are often cited as the reason to bring more AI into the workplace, though concerns over resulting job losses are never far behind. It might surprise you, then, to learn that the head of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, actually thinks job cuts caused by AI are not the way forward. Today’s wealth of…

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