Most Linux guides still recommend the same FTP clients they listed years ago, even though some of those projects are no longer maintained. If you install one of them today, you may end up dealing with bugs, compatibility issues, or missing features instead of simply transferring files. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files between a client and a server over a network. FTP clients were originally command-line tools, long before graphical file managers became common. Even today, many developers continue to maintain command-line FTP clients because they’re fast, lightweight, and easy to use…
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TL;DR — Key Takeaways Attackers are flooding GitHub with 7,600 fake repositories posing as AI skills and MCP servers, abusing AI coding assistances into tricking developers into downloading malware. Island researchers found Claude Code, Gemini, and ChatGPT could autonomously surface malicious repositories as legitimate options, a tactic dubbed AgentBaiting. The fake repos deliver the long-running SmartLoader/StealC malware chain, which steals passwords, cookies, sessions, screenshots, and other sensitive data. Rather than hacking GitHub, the attackers exploit AI-driven software discovery, highlighting the need to verify repositories and isolate new AI tools before installing them. Threat actors continue to find new ways to…
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For anyone living through job loss, the end of a routine, or the quiet loss of a working identity.It is late, and you are still awake. Something ended, and the house has gone quiet in a way that has a shape to it. All day you told people you were fine. You are so tired of telling people you are fine.For twenty-five years I was the person companies called at their worst hour, when the systems were down and no one had slept. The machines always had an answer by morning. The people did not. I learned to watch what…
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Predictions from some of the most prominent voices in the technology industry suggest that software engineering could become increasingly obsolete within a year, jolting the developer community in ways that are still unfolding. The ripple effect spreads further across social media and news outlets, with some leaders urging developers to start seriously considering alternative career paths before the window closes.But while AI can generate functional code in seconds, it still cannot handle complex decision-making, understand ambiguous real-world requirements, navigate legacy systems, or take accountability for the behavior of large interconnected systems. Those limitations matter enormously in production environments where the…
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TL;DR — Key Takeaways GitHub’s new Copilot dashboard measures impact, not just access, showing whether licensed developers are actually changing how they work. Users are grouped by adoption depth: basic code completion, agent-first workflows, multi-agent use and passive license holders. The dashboard connects Copilot usage to engineering outcomes, including pull requests merged, merge speed and lines of code per day. GitHub has released a new dashboard that gives enterprise administrators a much clearer picture of how their developers are actually using Copilot, not just whether they’re using it at all. The move addresses a gap that’s dogged IT leaders since…
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If you already know Python, learning an entirely new configuration language just to manage cloud infrastructure feels like a detour. That is exactly the problem CDK for Terraform, usually shortened to CDKTF, was built to solve. It lets you define real cloud infrastructure, servers, storage buckets, databases, networking, using regular Python code instead of Terraform’s native HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). This guide walks through what CDKTF is, how to set it up, and how to provision a simple AWS infrastructure using nothing but Python. What is CDK for Terraform? Terraform is one of the most widely used infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.…