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Researchers have published a detailed two-part breakdown of CVE-two thousand twenty five dash thirteen thousand thirty two, a vulnerability allowing attackers to enter and escape the Avast antivirus sandbox. It's a reminder that the tools we trust to protect us carry their own attack surface, and that security research remains as essential as ever.
Shifting to developer tools, a new study published in Communications of the ACM is raising pointed questions about GitHub Copilot. The research identifies what it calls an efficiency-throughput gap, suggesting that while developers may ship code faster, the overall quality and cognitive load picture is more complicated than the headline productivity numbers imply.
And in a move that's equal parts pragmatic and pointed, the team behind a sales automation tool called Inboundr says Y Combinator passed on them, so they've decided to open-source the entire project. It's a growing pattern in startup culture, turning rejection into a community play and betting that visibility outlasts a funding round.
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