Safeguarding VS Code against prompt injections

The Copilot Chat extension for VS Code has been evolving rapidly over the past few months, adding a wide range of new features. Its new agent mode lets you use multiple large language models (LLMs), built-in tools, and MCP servers to write code, make commit requests, and integrate with external systems. It’s highly customizable, allowing […]

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Making continuous learning work at work

The most impactful learning happens in the flow of work—during code reviews, retros, and problem-solving—not in classrooms or LMS platforms. Leaders should embed learning into daily routines using the Learn → Question → Answer → Apply cycle. To make continuous learning stick, focus on three practices: be intentional, lead by example, and offer multimodal solutions. […]

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence

What are computers for? Historically, different answers to this question – that is, different visions of computing – have helped inspire and determine the computing systems humanity has ultimately built. Consider the early electronic computers. ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer, was commissioned to compute artillery firing tables for the United States Army. Other […]

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GeoServer Exploits, PolarEdge, and Gayfemboy Push Cybercrime Beyond Traditional Botnets

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to multiple campaigns that leverage known security vulnerabilities and expose Redis servers to various malicious activities, including leveraging the compromised devices as IoT botnets, residential proxies, or cryptocurrency mining infrastructure. The first set of attacks entails the exploitation of CVE-2024-36401 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting […]

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AMD accidentally marks FSR 4 open-source — source code reveals potential support for older Radeon GPUs

AMD recently published a new version of its FidelitySDK with FSR 4 upscaling and FSR 3.1.5 frame generation support. However, during the process, the GPU manufacturer accidentally published the full FSR 4 source code on GitHub (seemingly unintentionally). Before AMD took it down, some media outlets and X users managed to record screenshots of the […]

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Feature-wise transformations

Many real-world problems require integrating multiple sources of information. Sometimes these problems involve multiple, distinct modalities of information — vision, language, audio, etc. — as is required to understand a scene in a movie or answer a question about an image. Other times, these problems involve multiple sources of the same kind of input, i.e. when summarizing several documents […]

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