Fake Next.js job interview tests backdoor developer's devices

The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, ...
The Register on MSN

Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware

Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed ...
INQUIRER.net USA

8 best online JavaScript compilers for practice (free and fast)

Discover 8 best online JavaScript compilers to practice code instantly. Compare features, speed, and ease of use. Start ...
Microsoft

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...
HackerNoon

Microsoft’s AutoDev: The AI That Builds, Tests, and Fixes Code on Its Own

Microsoft’s AutoDev uses AI agents to write, test, and fix code autonomously, hitting 91.5% on HumanEval in Docker.
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.
Visual Studio Magazine

Comparing Amazon Q and GitHub Copilot Agentic AI in VS Code

This head-to-head test compared Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot Pro using a real-world editorial workflow to evaluate their performance as 'agentic' assistants beyond simple coding. Both tools ...
IEEE

Test-based and metric-based evaluation of code generation models for practical question answering

Abstract: We performed a comparative analysis of code generation model performance with evaluation using common NLP metrics in comparison to a test-based evaluation. The investigation was performed in ...