Kraken ransomware benchmarks systems for optimal encryption choice

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt ...
The Hacker News

Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack

The coordinated campaign has so far published as many as 46,484 packages, according to SourceCodeRED security researcher Paul ...

Google’s NotebookLM adds ‘Deep Research’ tool, support for more file types

As for the additional support for more file types, you can now upload Google Sheets, Drive files as URLs, PDFs from Google ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Reaches Second Milestone in Open-Source AI Editing for VS Code

Microsoft open sourced the inline suggestions system in VS Code, marking the second milestone in its plan to build an open-source AI editor and continuing the work detailed in the first milestone ...

3 Engineer-Approved AI Tools to Master 'Vibe Coding' — and 7 Steps to Use Them

"Vibe coding" appeared in early 2025 to describe the simple idea of programming with AI tools. So I tested a range of them — and these are the three best ones.