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Dev News Digest: 29 Oct 2026, 12:00

A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.

Security

  • Zero-click remote Android DoS: A researcher published details of an SMS-based attack that can knock Android devices out of service without any user interaction. smsofdeath.com
  • Full Microsoft Edge exploit chain from logic bugs only: Orange Tsai describes chaining pure logic flaws, with no memory corruption, into a complete browser compromise. blog.orange.tw

AI & tooling

  • How Claude Code's team reviews AI-written code: Anthropic described its review process now that Claude writes roughly 90% of the code, including the claim that nobody holds a full mental model of the codebase. Practitioners are pushing back and testing it. InfoQ
  • Datadog launches Scout for SRE investigations: A model trained specifically to investigate production incidents, running inside Datadog's Bits Investigation product. InfoQ
  • Cloudflare adds a Web Search API for AI apps: A beta search API is available through AI Gateway via REST and Workers, with unified logging for AI applications. InfoQ

Industry

  • Cuba skips its November DST change: Cuba will stay on daylight saving time until 2027, a reminder to check timezone database updates in your systems. timeanddate

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