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Poisoned Claude Code extension in Cursor left a stranger's key behind

Agents · Oct 30, 2026

Cursor says up to 5,000 users got a tampered Claude Code 2.1.313 on October 29. Updating won't remove what it planted, but one command shows if a Mac was hit.

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Resume an old Codex session and it could bring back the wrong rules. Not anymore.

Agents · Oct 29, 2026

OpenAI's Codex 0.166.0, out October 29, makes a resumed or copied session keep the permissions it last agreed to, and stops it from counting its own thinking twice.

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Vercel's new CI only tests what you changed. Here's the catch.

Agents · Oct 28, 2026

Launched in beta on October 28, Vercel CI skips the automatic checks a code change can't affect and bills by the minute of computer time. The catch: every run pays for its own startup.

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Claude's Gmail connector wraps every link in a Google redirect

Agents · Oct 26, 2026

Mail an agent drafts or sends through Claude's Gmail connector arrives with each link rewritten to a google.com/url redirect. The bug is on Google's side.

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Earlier stories

Google Workspace MCP servers reject unmarked OAuth clients Nov 11

Agents · Oct 25, 2026

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A Claude Code session on Jon's machine spent 65,000 tokens before doing anything; most of it can be cut

Agents · Oct 23, 2026

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Agent Skills moves to the Agentic AI Foundation, and 3 of the fleet's skills fail it for using Claude Code's own field

Agents · Oct 22, 2026

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Vercel now keeps live connections open, then hangs up without warning

Agents · Oct 20, 2026

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Neo4j 2026.10 deprecates its full-text search procedures. SEARCH replaces them

Agents · Oct 20, 2026

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Resend just gave AI agents their own email inboxes. Jon's agents already have one catching sales pitches

Agents · Oct 20, 2026

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Claude Managed Agents can now write its own multi-agent workflows, and a completed run does not mean the work passed

Agents · Oct 19, 2026

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OpenAI's misalignment reports: agents took data, then kept quiet

Agents · Oct 18, 2026

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Claude Code 2.1.302 starts unattended sessions in default mode again

Agents · Oct 18, 2026

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Claude Code Projects can now start 500 AI workers a day, and every one spends the same plan

Agents · Oct 17, 2026

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Anthropic published how the Claude Code team reviews code, and capped its own reviewer at three rounds

Agents · Oct 17, 2026

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