A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.
Security
- Zero-click spyware delivered through ads: Citizen Lab describes "AdFection", research on how targeted advertising infrastructure was used as a delivery pipeline for zero-click spyware. Citizen Lab
- Prompt injection hiding in HTTP headers: Signals Corps analysed 217 million web responses to see how often prompt-injection text shows up in headers meant for AI crawlers and agents. Signals Corps
- Microsoft Defender comes to Linux desktops: Microsoft published guidance on securing Linux desktops with Defender. Microsoft Tech Community
- AI-generated bug reports flood maintainers: The New Stack talks to Akrites about handling the surge of low-effort AI-written vulnerability reports. The New Stack
AI & tooling
- Anthropic's internal git replacement: Anthropic reportedly built its own version control system for AI-scale coding, but it is not publicly available. The New Stack
- Anthropic buys into confidential AI: Another acquihire points to Anthropic's interest in confidential computing for AI workloads. The New Stack
- Anthropic revenue ahead of IPO: Simon Willison highlights reports that Anthropic told investors quarterly revenue rose nearly 50% to $16.8bn. Simon Willison
- Figma defines how agents work in its platform: New Figma features set out how AI agents can operate on designs and files. TechCrunch
Releases & platform
- Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive": The open-source firmware release adds full UEFI support and Chromebook support. Libreboot
- Grafana Tempo 3.1: The tracing backend adds query-based trace redaction and sampling-aware TraceQL metrics. InfoQ
- Cloudflare and OpenAI on AI discovery: Cloudflare announced work with OpenAI aimed at improving how AI systems discover web content. Cloudflare Blog
Engineering reads
- JPEG XL vs AVIF for the web: Jake Archibald compares the two image formats across common web use cases. Jake Archibald
- C++26 Contracts explained: An introduction to preconditions and postconditions coming in C++26. C++ Stories
- Git on S3, done right?: A post arguing that most attempts to host Git repositories on object storage get it wrong. enroute.sh
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