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A security vulnerability in the AI coding tool Cursor is drawing attention from developers. Designated CVE two thousand twenty six dash twenty six two six eight, the flaw involves hidden Git hooks that could allow remote code execution when the tool's agent autonomously performs Git operations — a reminder that as AI takes on more coding tasks, the attack surface grows in ways we're still learning to map.
Shifting to a philosophical corner of the web, a piece from Mech Lang argues that large language models won't replace programming languages anytime soon. The author's point is subtle but important — LLMs generate text that resembles code, but programming languages are formal systems with precise semantics that machines actually execute. Convenience and correctness, the argument goes, are not the same thing.
And then there's a meditation from the Paris Review on Rotten dot com, the notorious shock site that shaped a generation's understanding of the raw, unmoderated internet. It's a cultural history piece as much as a tech story, examining what it meant to encounter mortality and chaos through a browser window in the late nineteen nineties — and what we lost, or maybe gained, when the web got curated.
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