Fake Next.js job interview tests backdoor developer's devices

The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, ...
Microsoft

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

BBC acquires adult animation series Deano

The series is created and written by Dean Thomas and David Ferrier, and co-produced by Hooligan Animation, BBC Studios and ...
Nature

This chunk of glass could store two million books for 10,000 years

Microsoft unveils a laser-modified glass that could store huge amounts of data for millennia — plus, a trial of mRNA vaccines ...

TypeScript 6.0 beta lays the foundation for shifting the codebase from JavaScript to Go

Microsoft has announced a beta for TypeScript 6.0, which will be the last release of the language using the JavaScript codebase.
GitHub

Drswith/vscode-json-string-code-editor

Choose from auto-detected languages Edit in a new tab with syntax highlighting Press Ctrl+S to save and sync back Note: Language detection is built into the extension and cannot be customized by users ...
GitHub

Enforce the output format (JSON Schema, Regex etc) of a language model

Language models are able to generate text, but when requiring a precise output format, they do not always perform as instructed. Various prompt engineering techniques have been introduced to improve ...