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Turns out AI isn’t that popular at work – just 4% of workers use the technology in the majority of daily tasks, but developers are among the top early adopters
Just 4% of workers are using AI tools in the majority of their daily tasks – but some key professions are flocking to the technology, according to new research from Anthropic. Researchers at the AI company examined how its Claude model is being used, leveraging the data to help launch its own Economic Index that tracks the impact of AI…
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GitHub’s new ‘Agent Mode’ feature lets AI take the reins for developers
GitHub has launched a new agentic AI tool for developers, dubbed ‘Agent Mode’, alongside a raft of updates to the Copilot service. Agent Mode enables Copilot to iterate on its own outputs and complete entire user requests in one go, thereby automating broader aspects of the development process. It can also automatically fix errors, suggest terminal commands, and assess run-time…
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The world’s ‘first AI software engineer’ isn’t living up to expectations: Cognition AI’s ‘Devin’ assistant was touted as a game changer for developers, but so far it’s fumbling tasks and struggling to compete with human workers
Devin, a coding assistant hailed as the world’s ‘first AI software engineer’, was given 20 coding tasks – it managed to complete just three, taking longer than expected and going down strange routes to achieve its goals. The AI coding tool, developed by Cognition AI, was hailed as a transformative solution to help streamline software development when it was unveiled…
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Developers can’t get a handle on application security risks
Application development infrastructure is full of significant security risks, with research by Legit Security finding high or critical risks in the developer environments of every company it examined. The security company’s report into the state of application risk found flaws in applications but also the “software factories” that make them. The report is based on data from its own platform,…
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Celeste developers cancel follow-up game Earthblade
Earthblade, the next game from the developers of Celeste, has been canceled. The fantasy-inspired game got its first trailer in late 2022, and the game would have let you explore a “free-roaming, dynamically-loading map,” Extremely OK Games’ Maddy Thorson said at the time. But the team decided to cancel the game in December after a team conflict and because of…
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Shadow AI is creeping its way into software development – more than half of developers admit to using unauthorized AI tools at work, and it’s putting companies at risk
With software developers increasingly flocking to AI tools to support daily activities, new research suggests a concerning portion are using unauthorized solutions. Findings from Harness’ State of Software Delivery Report show that more than half (52%) of developers don’t use IT-approved tools, raising significant compliance and intellectual property concerns. “Perhaps the most alarming observation was around the use of company-approved…
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“The Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers”: Nvidia’s new ‘Project Digits’ mini PC is an AI developer’s dream – but it’ll set you back $3,000 a piece to get your hands on one
Nvidia shocked attendees at CES 2025 last week when it announced a new mini PC which it claims is the world’s smallest AI supercomputer. Unveiled by CEO Jensen Huang in a Steve Jobs-esque ‘one more thing’ fashion, the device will feature a Grace Blackwell GB10 ‘superchip’ capable of delivering a petaflop of AI performance. Project Digits, a placeholder name for…
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Developers are struggling to build generative AI applications – here’s why
AI application development faces significant obstacles due to a growing engineering skills gap and a dearth of effective tooling, an IBM study has found. Though the majority of respondents who identified as AI developers or data scientists considered themselves AI experts, less than a quarter (24%) of application developers ranked themselves at the same level. This highlights a growing generative…
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Phishing campaign targets developers with fake CrowdStrike job offers
Developers are being targeted in a new phishing campaign using fake CrowdStrike job offers, the security company has warned. The firm noted that the campaign, first identified on 7 January, uses CrowdStrike’s recruitment branding to load crypto-mining malware onto the victim’s systems. The campaign begins with phishing emails purporting to be part of a recruitment process informing victims that they…
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Malicious npm packages target Ethereum developers’ private keys
Twenty malicious packages impersonating the Hardhat development environment used by Ethereum developers are targeting private keys and other sensitive data. Collectively, the malicious packages have recorded more than one thousand downloads, researchers say. Narrow targeting campaign Hardhat is a widely used Ethereum development environment maintained by the Nomic Foundation. It is used for developing, testing, and deploying smart contracts and decentralized…
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