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0xsid.com — When Google's Update Deletes Your IDE and Leaves a Chatbot in Its Place
May 22, 2026 771 345

When Google's Update Deletes Your IDE and Leaves a Chatbot in Its Place

Google's Antigravity 2.0 update silently replaced a working developer IDE with a chatbot at I/O 2026 - and the only fix was a full system purge.

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0xsid.com
bleepingcomputer.com — The VSCode extension that robbed GitHub
May 22, 2026 1.1k 460

The VSCode extension that robbed GitHub

GitHub confirmed ~3,800 internal repos were stolen after one employee installed a trojanized Nx Console extension - and the attackers want $50K for the data.

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bleepingcomputer.com
crates.io — zerostack: the coding agent that runs on 8MB, not 8GB
May 17, 2026 575 308

zerostack: the coding agent that runs on 8MB, not 8GB

A solo Rust developer shipped a full-featured coding agent with an 8MB RAM footprint. HN argues about whether that even matters.

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crates.io

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