ESLint Upgrades, Malicious Free VPNs, and the Gating of GPT-5.6

The Promptware Kill Chain: How Prompt Injection Becomes AI Malware

Original, IBM

Chrome and Firefox Extensions Posing as Free VPNs Add Clipboard Stealers via Malicious Updates

Clipboard theft is an effective credential and secrets collection technique because it abuses normal user behavior rather than exploiting the host directly. Malware analysts often refer to clipboard-monitoring malware as clippers, especially when it steals copied secrets or swaps cryptocurrency addresses. Users routinely copy passwords, MFA codes, API keys, OAuth tokens, seed phrases, wallet addresses, and other high-value secrets.

Original, Socket

The GPT-5.6 rollout is another example of why European businesses can’t rely on US tech

The US government is deciding who gets to use American technology, and in doing so they’re deciding Europe’s future. As new technology emerges in the US, European businesses are being left behind, and it’s accelerating with every new technological advance. If this trend continues, European businesses will be left behind, unable to compete against their global peers because of their dependence on US tech.

Original, Proton

What does it mean to be yourself at work? 🏳️🌈

Original, JetBrains

ESLint v10.6.0 released

ESLint v10.6.0 introduces a new option checkRelationalComparisons for the no-constant-binary-expression rule. When enabled, the rule reports relational comparisons using <, <=, >, or >= whose result is always constant based on their literal operands.

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