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.

Using an AI coding assistant to migrate an application from one programming language to another wasn’t as easy as it looked. Here are three takeaways.

Experimental - This project is still in development, and not ready for the prime time. A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI. Monty avoids the cost, latency, complexity ...