Abstract: Code smells violate best practices in software development that make code difficult to understand and maintain. Code smell detection tools help practitioners detect maintainability issues ...

On January 5, employees at Cursor returned from the holiday weekend to an all-hands meeting with a slide deck titled “War Time.” During the break, employees playing with Anthropic’s latest model, Opus ...

Abstract: Programming language source code vulnerability mining is crucial to improving the security of software systems, but current research is mostly focused on the C language field, with little ...

Code editor provider Cursor has acquired Graphite, a startup with a tool that helps developers check software updates for bugs before releasing them to production. The companies announced the ...

What would you like to be added? Currently, qwen-code CLI doesn’t know which line or file the cursor is on in VS Code — users must manually copy/paste code.

A weakness in the Cursor code editor exposes developers to the risk of automatically executing tasks in a malicious repository as soon as it’s opened. Threat actors can exploit the flaw to drop ...

Skylos is an open-source static analysis tool and PR gate for Python, TypeScript, and Go. It helps teams detect dead code, hardcoded secrets, exploitable flows, and AI-generated security regressions ...

Confirming recent rumors, code editor startup Anysphere Inc. today announced that it has closed a $900 million funding round. OpenAI backer Thrive Capital led the raise. It was joined by several other ...

Would you trust an AI agent to run unverified code on your system? For developers and AI practitioners, this question isn’t just hypothetical—it’s a critical challenge. The risks of executing ...

Security researchers at Apiiro have released two free, open-source tools designed to detect and block malicious code before they are added to software projects to curb supply chain attacks. The two ...